Just one month after Bermuda Football Association president Larry Mussenden warned that drug users and abusers at soccer grounds faced being banished from all matches, plant material has been found again at a game featuring two Premier Division teams.

The incident occurred at White Hill Field on Sunday during the Premier clash between Devonshire Colts and Wolves when Police, in what has become a regular patrol of soccer grounds, came up with plant material which was still being analysed yesterday but thought to be marijuana.

Unlike the discovery on Saturday, September 22, during a Martonmere Cup double-header at BAA Field when a large amount of drugs found prompted Mussenden to give a public warning to offenders, the seizure this time around was rather small, according to Police Media Relations Officer Coleman Easton.

But it was significant enough for the BFA boss to reiterate his threat, reminding offenders that his position remained unchanged.

"Our position definitely hasn't changed. The offenders risk being banished," said Mussenden.

"I am happy that the Police were able to confiscate what appears to be a controlled substance at that particular ground on Sunday and it is our commitment to continue to work with the Police and encourage them to come to the sports grounds and ensure that these grounds offer a drug free environment.

"I don't think it is too much to ask someone to do without their habits for the duration of a game.

"It's a mixed reaction right now in that I am disappointed that someone would still bring drugs to our sports grounds when we have asked people not to do it. We had thought that the message had been sent loudly and strongly that our clubs had been the blood, sweat and tears of our mothers, fathers and grandparents and I have said it previously and I will say it again that every time someone brings drugs into our sports grounds it tarnishes and undermines the vision and the dreams of our parents."

Mussenden noted that the vast majority of sporting clubs were black and it was a shame that these facilities were targeted by drug offenders.

The president reiterated his dream of seeing the sport cleaned up so that families could be encouraged to return to the bleachers.

"Our sports clubs have been predominantly black institutions and they have been created by proud black Bermudians and residents and from the information that I have been receiving it appears that whenever there is drug abuse going on it is holding these same black institutions down when in fact we should be striving socially and financially and educationally,'' added Mussenden.

"I would hate to think that the people that are preventing these black institutions from prospering are our black people or young black people, so I appeal to everyone, black and white, but particularly our wonderful black people to not contribute in any way to demeaning our sports grounds."

Mussenden said he had watched many other sporting activities throughout the Island other than soccer and had yet to discover widespread drug use, indicating these organisations to have been both black and white.

"I would hate to think that any of our black people are deliberately and wilfully tearing down our institutions rather than building them up so that we can prosper as much or more than other sports in this country,'' he said.