Royals and Racers Utter shambles in the combined counties Premier Division South where the play-off semi’s scheduled for this Saturday have had to be postponed. I think it’s all about Jersey’s points deduction and possibly Redhill might also have infringed the rules. The league say the judicial process has to be worked through.
Quite a farcical situation : you really have to feel for Jersey Bulls, as it seems they did what they understood they had to do to meet the rules.
The race for the Combined Counties Premier Division South title could hardly have been more exciting going into the final round of fixtures last weekend: Jersey Bulls led Redhill on goal difference, with Whyteleafe one point behind. The Bulls, the only one of those three playing at home, had sold out Springfield Stadium for the visit of Sandhurst. But on the Friday night they were informed that they were being deducted three points and fined £120 for fielding an illegible player in last month’s 4-0 win over Tooting & Mitcham. “We understand the frustration, the anger, and the disbelief from supporters. We feel it too,” the club said in a statement. “When we started this club, we had nothing but the dream of giving our island a football team it deserves, one that we hoped our wonderful island community would take to its hearts, and one that we knew could be successful in the English leagues. That dream is not over. We have achieved so much in such a short space of time that we must not let an error, a technicality, and a decision that is out of our hands divide us.” For most of the final afternoon Whyteleafe, who led Fleet Town from the 12th minute, were going up, only for Redhill to score a 93rd-minute winner and pip them, but still the identity of the champions is unknown. The Bulls, who also won on the final day, have submitted an appeal, saying there is “significant mitigation” concerning a “lack of clarity on the number of yellow cards” (the situation does, to be fair, sound a bit confusing: after the player picked up his 10th booking of the season he was left out for two games before returning to the team. But it turned out that one of those 10 bookings didn’t count because it came in the FA Vase, which meant he was not officially suspended until after his next one, his first after the club thought he had been suspended). The league is investigating and the playoffs – due to get under way on Saturday – have been postponed.
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about bloddy time too, what took you so long? 
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