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
The Rolling Stones play St Helier
- The Rolling Stones appeared for two nights at St Helier's Springfield Hall in their August 1964 tour of the UK.
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Parliament commends Jersey’s wartime conduct
- The British home secretary declared that the Channel Islands should be proud of themselves following the Occupation.
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Jersey plane makes bomb threat detour
- Thirty passengers on their way to Jersey strapped themselves in as their aircraft performed an about turn in mid-air
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Man sentenced to hang for murder
- A 27-year-old man was sentenced to be hanged after he pleaded guilty to murder, but his sentence was commuted.
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