Icelandic coach Pall Gudlaugsson has been given the cold shoulder.

For the second year in succession the ex-pat football coach was sacked after overseeing only one match.

Gudlaugsson landed himself a job coaching Devonshire Colts at the beginning of the 2004-05 season. His tenure, though, would be shortlived as he was dismissed from his post following Colts? season-opening 1-0 win over St.David?s.

And history has a peculiar way of repeating itself.

For after signing a deal at Paget last June, Gudlaugsson found himself out in the cold yet again when club officials relieved him of the coaching post ? vacated last season by Brian (Bulla) Anderson ? following a 2-1 loss to St.George?s Colts on September 18 at White Hill Field.

Gudlaugsson is alleged to have bailed out on the team immediately after the final whistle had blown and subsequently notified 24 hours later his services would no longer be required after club officials moved swiftly to fill the void.

?He just disappeared . . . nobody didn?t even know where he had gone. He just walked off the bench and disappeared,? a Paget spokesperson claimed.

?He just had this stubborn defensive mentality when we in fact probably have two of the Island?s top attacking players in Marvin (Belboda) and Dion (Stovell). And for whatever reasons he also refused to play both players (Stovell and Belboda) on the field at the same time. All he did was shout and scream and try to destroy the team?s morale.

?When he first came onboard during the summer he was doing his thing and things were working out fine. But whenever one little thing would go wrong he would always threaten to quit. This was the ammunition he would always use. He always tried to put fear in the players.?

New acquisition Marvin Belboda has since taken over the vacant position, the spokesperson confirmed.

When contacted, Gudlaugsson told : ?I just don?t want to get involved in the things that are going on there. I have nothing bad to say about the boys from Paget or the club. But I just don?t want to be involved with things that are going on there.

?It was just unfortunate and a waste of time and I don?t want to have anything remotely to do it. There are a lot of things I could say, but I?m not making any fuss out of this. I just reached the decision that I was wasting my time and no longer want to have any association with them, not even verbally.

?I have decided to use my precious hours, that I have very few of, to do something more constructive than this.?

The sacked Paget coach also claimed to have been on the receiving end of verbal abuse.

According to the club?s spokesperson, present at the match, Gudlaugsson and club defender Leroy Stevens became involved in a verbal spat when the coach did not include the former Bermuda international?s name on the team sheet.

?They argued back and forth for the entire game,? he recalled. ?Pall was making hand gestures and telling Roy he is a has-been and washed up, while Roy told him ?I never sat bench for Bermuda?s national team, and now you?re going to have me sit bench for Paget?.?

But when asked to give his side of the story, Gudlaugsson replied: ?I?m the one who was verbally attacked for three-and-a-half hours.?

Stevens, who transferred from commercial outfit Key West Rangers during the off-season, could not be reached for comment.

This dilemma is the latest to rock the 1996 First Division Shield champions since Anderson?s sudden resignation as coach and Bermuda Football Association?s ruling to strip the club of league points and expel them from last season?s FA Cup competition for fielding an ineligible player.

Paget, who picked up their first win of the 2005-06 campaign against Hamilton Parish last weekend, placed sixth in the table last season with a record of five wins, six draws and seven losses.