night to deal with the Marvin Lewis matter.

Lewis is facing lengthly bans from football for his conduct on Sunday at Southampton Oval when he allegedly threw a bottle from the northern bank which hit referee Chris Terry in the back.

It is the second serious disciplinary matter facing the club in a year -- following Troy Durham's attack on linesman Peter Sousa last November at Frog Lane Field -- and club president Elroy Ratteray has promised swift and harsh action. Durham received a 10-year ban from his club before the BFA followed up with a life ban.

"I'm appalled to know this has happened, especially since this is a player from Dandy Town -- and a new player that we've gotten this year,'' said Ratteray who is also a Bermuda Football Association second vice president.

"I do know of his past history. He has a brother (Don Lewis) playing with us, his uncle (Cecil Lewis) is on my executive committee and I'm really surprised at the behaviour of this youngster.'' Lewis, when he decided to leave Devonshire Colts at the end of last season, had initially planned to join PHC who were reportedly not keen to sign him.

"All hope is not lost and I'm not going to put him down, but he needs help,'' said Ratteray. "If you see him away from football he is one of the nicest guys you would want to talk to but when he gets to football he takes it very serious and gets too serious.'' Ratteray admitted the latest incident didn't reflect well on a club that has done so much over the years with its youth programme, although Lewis did not come up through that programme.

"He has only played for us twice, having come from somewhere else, while Durham is a product of Dandy Town,'' Ratteray pointed out. He said Lewis was interested in joining Town a year ago but withdrew his application.

"The club doesn't condone what has happened and this is what the BFA is trying to get rid of. I would imagine that if Dandy Town take action then all of the clubs are going to follow suit.

"Nobody would like that to happen at their field so they would rather keep him off all premises.'' Ratteray, who was at the game, said he was happy to see the match restart following a short delay after officials informed the referee that the culprit had been removed from the ground.

"We're going to get on top of it and make sure it doesn't happen again. Once we start punishing these players, then the other players will take note and the game will clean up itself.''