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Blazers facing BFA expulsion

Homeless Boulevard Blazers are perilously close to being kicked out of the Premier Division.With the start of the new season just 10 days away, the top flight club are still without a home, and are running out of options.A Bermuda Football Association deadline for the club to find a base passed on Monday, and with the governing body desperate to confirm the schedule for the upcoming season there is a very real danger that Boulevard could be left behind.

Homeless Boulevard Blazers are perilously close to being kicked out of the Premier Division.

With the start of the new season just 10 days away, the top flight club are still without a home, and are running out of options.

A Bermuda Football Association deadline for the club to find a base passed on Monday, and with the governing body desperate to confirm the schedule for the upcoming season there is a very real danger that Boulevard could be left behind.

So far Blazers have missed out on using grounds in St. David's and St. George's, and it now appears as if Dandy Town will be the latest club to turn their backs on the troubled club.

Boulevard president Steven Proctor held talks with his counterparts at the St. John's Field team at the end of last week, and it is believed Town were initially receptive to the idea.

However, a large number of players and officials within Dandy Town are believed to have vehemently objected to the proposal, and there was an argument at a committee meeting on Tuesday night which nearly came to blows.

Sources inside Dandy Town said that while one group are in favour of allowing Blazers into the club for 'the good of football', others fear that mixing the two sets of supporters will only lead to gang violence at matches.

Now any decision has been put on hold until Dandy Town have had a chance to discuss the issue internally, with another meeting believed to have been scheduled this weekend.

"We have to go back on that," said club executive Wayne Campbell. "I'm not saying we are rescinding (our offer), but there are some things that we at our club have to talk about. We're trying not to let much information out right now, because we are trying to sort some stuff out for ourselves.

"Yes there are some concerns (within the club), and we have to deal with some things on our end first, before I say anything else."

Although the BFA are believed to be willing to give Boulevard more time, Proctor himself acknowledged last week that his club's future was in doubt.

"The worst case scenario is that we are barred from the league, and that would be a total loss to football on the Island," he said. "We have been around since 1972, I played for the side in the '70s, and it is a good club.

"We are being made to suffer because social problems are having an impact, but we can't have people thinking that it will happen wherever we go, because then we'll be without a place to play. Worst case is that the BFA kicks us out, but I hope that never happens."