Ireland Rangers striker Jonathan Bean has been slapped with a one-year ban for bringing an emotion-packed First Division clash involving his club and Somerset Trojans into disrepute.

The 12-month suspension stemming from the match at Malabar last month comes as the Bermuda Football Association continue to a clamp down on unruly behaviour at club grounds.

On February 8, Trojans handed Rangers a 4-1 defeat to clinch promotion back into the Premier Division after a one-year absence, but not before four players were ejected following a brawl resulting from a hard tackle by the visitor?s Dwia Blyden on Rangers? goalie Leslie Trew.

Bean, Trew and Jermaine Saltus ? all from Rangers ? and Trojans? Damon Swan all received their marching orders for exchanging blows on the pitch. Bean was sent off for kicking an opponent, Trew for head-butting, and Saltus and Swan for punching and attempting punching respectively.

Ireland Rangers have now appealed against Bean?s lengthy ban.

While Bean felt the full brunt of a BFA disciplinary committee?s findings, both Saltus and Trew received four-match suspensions along with Trojans? Swan, a former member of Bermuda?s under-17 national team.

In addition to the various bans, each player received probation for one-year to run until the end of the 2004-05 season.

Shortly after the match concluded, a Somerset player was reportedly set upon by a knife-wielding assailant ? said to have been a player from the home team ? as he attempted to exit the premises.

?We have met with the individual and received additional information that we did not previously have. A report has been drafted and forwarded to the BFA and we are now awaiting word from them,? added DeRosa, in relation to that separate incident.

BFA general secretary David Sabir described recent random acts of violence at club grounds as a problem that transcends the football pitch.

?I think the community as a whole is crying out for an end to these senseless and useless acts of violence among young people. The one thing that has to be driven home to our young people is that outside the game of football they have to find other ways of resolving society?s issues. They must cease bringing these matters to the playing field because it is not good for the club they represent, it certainly can?t be good for their families and overall it is not good for football,? he said.