Until a ?fan? ran onto the pitch at Somerset Cricket Club last Wednesday to wreak havoc, there had been one undoubted star of the show.

Playing his first game for Trojans during this campaign, Damon Ming was all step-overs, flicks, tricks and speed ? with an injection of steel. Life at Barnet FC is clearly doing him the power of good.

With the help of Trojans coach Paul Scope, Ming was one of half-a-dozen young Bermudians who headed over to England in search of fame and fortune this summer, and the only one who did enough to stay, albeit in the non-league ranks.

Under Paul Fairclough, a friend of Scope?s from his days in non-league soccer, Ming has impressed in training and earned starting spots in the Barnet line-up this season.

The intensive training, and the physical side of the English game, has clearly left an impression on the 26-year-old winger, whose skills remain polished but are backed up with a bite in the tackle that made him irresistible in the Friendship Trophy quarter-final against Boulevard.

?Yeah, I think my game is getting better,? said the Trojans top-scorer last term.

?It is a different sort of game in England and you have to be a lot more physical over there. I think that side of my game has improved.?

Ming, who has previously had trials with Division Two side Oxford United and the Atlanta Silverbacks in the US, played a key role in Bermuda?s Digicel Cup campaign in St. Vincent last month, although his missed penalty against British Virgin Islands in the final game proved costly.

?It was a good experience,? said the High Point University graduate.

?Playing international football means a lot to me and it was good to represent Bermuda again, although it was a shame we couldn?t get through. We played well but let it go in the last game by not scoring.

?I don?t know when we all play together again, because I am not sure when the next games are, but I am glad I came back for it.?

But after two games back in Bermuda for the Trojans, Ming flies back to the UK this week determined to make his mark.

He is going to keep ploughing away at Barnet in an effort to earn a regular place with the Conference side, but he has a meeting with a new agent and there are other options that he may look into it.

?Playing football for a living is what I want to do,? said Ming, who said that he was looking at Shaun Goater as a model of what can be achieved in the UK.

?I don?t know exactly how it is going to work out but there are a few options that we are looking into it. Playing football in the UK is a dream for me and I really want to make it work over there.

?It was good to come back and play a couple of games here but I am looking forward to getting back over there and getting on with it all.?

Scope, the national assistant coach, was very impressed with Ming during the Digicel Cup games.

?Being over there in Barnet is doing his game a lot of good,? said Scope.

?He is a bit more disciplined with the way he plays now but the biggest improvement is on the physical side of the game.

?He is obviously not the biggest player but he is getting stronger and he is now putting himself about a bit. I think that can only help his game.?

Although Ming has a lot of good things to say about football here, watching a fan come on and trade punches with a team-mate is not something he liked.

?To be honest, I was ashamed that it happened,? he added.

?That?s not the sort of thing that it is good for Bermuda.?