Comments on Outcasts from President of Jersey FA

Having just read your book Outcasts, I felt compelled to contact you and congratulate you on such an illuminating and well researched book, which has been immensely informative with great background information and although much of to which you refer regarding particularly Jersey, Channel Islands, Island Games and Gibraltar was already known generally to me it factually fills in many gaps!My interest? Well I was quite gobsmacked to get a mention as the new JFA President to whom you refer and getting international status for Jersey is in many respects my holy grail! so we have a lot of common interests and I would love the opportunity to speak with you and perhaps invite you to Jersey to do an interview and get a first hand view of where we now at and where we trying to go. In the 18 months since my election together with that of a new Executive we have made quite a bit of progress including securing a 6 figure sponsorship deal to help develop our national team games programme. We have also gained support of FA Premier League Chairman who visited the island in May and have Geoff Thompson coming in January 9/10 which could be an opportune time for you to consider a visit. I am also good friends with Joey Nunez of Gibraltar and watching their progress re UEFA with interest. We are also looking to arrange a rematch of our Islands Games clash in Rhodes in November having gone out to Gibraltar in group stage not even by goal difference but a goal less scored having been 6 minutes away from knocking them out of the tournament in their very 1st game before they equalised at 1-1 and went onto win group by virtue of beating Menorca 2-1 as opposed to our 1-0 result in our 1st game.Anyway I'd be delighted to hear from you at rickyweir@gmail.com
Ricky Weir