being substituted, has been banned from competitive soccer for three years.

Dailey was added to the list of players given lengthy bans this season after Bermuda Football Association's disciplinary committee found him guilty of violent conduct.

Referee Glynn Gilbert abandoned last month's B Division game between Valley and Devonshire Lions at half-time after fighting broke out between Dailey and Valley coach Ashton Thomas.

Thomas, who had called Dailey off just as the second half was about to start before apparently being attacked, was cleared of any wrongdoing by the disciplinary committee. Valley banned Dailey immediately after the incident.

Thomas is president as well as coach of Valley, a club founded six years ago for the youth of the Port Royal area of Southampton.

In the week after the incident, Thomas told The Royal Gazette : "I had to defend myself, I took as much as I could.

"He was very much a new player to the club, but he was not a disciplined player. He felt it (the substitution) was a personal thing.'' Dailey claimed Thomas had started the scuffle and that a player had held him from behind while the coach had hit him.

The season has been blighted by violence, none worse than the game between Vasco and Devonshire Cougars at BAA Field last month, when Vasco's Dwight Basden was punched by Cougars' Wendell Swan and then kicked in the head by his brother Ryan Swan.

The Swan brothers were banned by the BFA, Ryan for seven years and Wendell for two years.

And Ian DeSilva, of Young Men's Social Club, was also banned for five years earlier this season for punching referee Oral Swan during a Second Division match.

Other punishments meted out during the latest hearing of the BFA disciplinary committee went to Dennis Williams, of Paget, and Keith Jennings, of Vasco.

Williams was suspended for four games for abusive language and unsporting conduct in the game between Paget and PHC on February 28.

And a three-game ban and probation until March 31 this year was slapped on Jennings, for retaliation and unsporting behaviour in Vasco's clash with Southampton Rangers on January 17.