discuss how the rising tide of indiscipline in soccer can be stemmed.

A weekend which brought six red cards in two First Division games has sparked the talks between association secretary Gregory Grimes and vice-president Lyndon Raynor.

Grimes was among the crowd at BAA Field on Sunday, where he saw three Devonshire Cougars players dismissed for violent conduct and Vasco striker Dwight Basden taken to hospital after being kicked in the head.

Grimes wrote a report on the ugly scenes he witnessed and delivered it to the Bermuda Football Association headquarters yesterday morning.

Grimes said he could make no official comment on behalf of the association until after today's meeting, but his personal opinion was: "There is no place in football for that.'' Bermuda international Basden was first punched by Wendell Swan and then kicked in the head by Ryan Swan while grounded. He was taken to King Edward VII Hospital for a check-up on Sunday and later released.

Referee Leroy Wilson, who said it was the worst incident he had seen in 10 years as a referee, sent off the Swan brothers and also dismissed Cougars' Galvin Butterfield later in the game, also for violent conduct.

The clash between Wolves and Hamilton Parish at Devonshire Rec. also turned ugly as Parish's Chris Caisey and Leon Raynor and Wolves' Kemo Smith were given their marching orders.

But there was no reaction to the weekend's alarming events from the BFA yesterday, despite messages left by this newspaper for BFA secretary David Sabir.

Vasco coach John Rebello said of his injured player, Basden: "He's got a really bad headache and bruises on his head and the back of his neck. But he's a strong boy.'' Rebello said of the incident: "It was unfortunate, what happened, but I'm sure the players involved did not mean it to go so far and are sorry for their actions.

"Things like this happen in the heat of the moment. On any given day, anyone can snap.

"But all it does is to hurt football across the board. It's just another black eye for football.

"Everybody in the football fraternity here knows each other and off the field, we're all friends. It's just on the field that sometimes things get a little crazy and it's hard to say why.''