7th August 2018
Jersey Bulls FC is formed
With a home ground at St Helier’s Springfield Stadium, the Bulls signed up 30 players for its first season, and appointed Gary Freeman as its first manager. Three months after its founding, the English Football Association welcomed it into Division One of the Combined Counties League. Its first season saw it victorious in each of its first 15 games (excluding the two friendlies it played before the season opened, both of which it lost).
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Other events that occured in August
Four men are arrested after French government accusation
- Four men were brought from Jersey to Southampton to answer charges of assassination and vandalism in France.
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Divers move 70 primed bombs
- The Navy was called in to move 70 primed bombs that had been found in a sunken freighter just outside St Helier.
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Painter John Everett Millais dies
- Although born in Southampton, John Everett Millais was of Jersey stock, and he spent much of his childhood in the island.
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Soldier kills colleague with a scrubbing brush
- When a fight broke out at a Jersey barracks, one of the two men involved ended up being killed, in part by a scrubbing brush.
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