Bermuda Football Association president Neville Tyrrell may not be president much longer -- but he is not allowing the imminent challenge to his leadership to bother him.

At a time when there is a call for a special general meeting by club affiliates to discuss whether any constitutional flaws took place during the Bermuda Football Association's July annual general meeting and whether another election for president will be necessary, Tyrrell remains undistracted.

"I am certainly not distracted about this call for a special general meeting,'' said Tyrrell. "I am conforming to the constitutional requirement of setting a date for such a meeting and the public and all of those interested will know in due course, but obviously the clubs will be informed first.

"It certainly isn't something that is bothering me, my position is that I know common sense will prevail and what will be will be.'' The call for a meeting came about after questions were raised over the validity of the election, in which Tyrrell defeated challenger Mark Trott on the casting vote of presiding officer Eugene Blakeney.

Lawyer Larry Scott pointed out in The Royal Gazette that, in his opinion, the BFA's own rules were broken and Blakeney should not have been presiding officer that night.

Affiliates have invoked their right to call for a special general meeting, but the date of it has yet to be revealed.

Tyrrell declined to talk any further on the controversy, but was keener to discuss his many goals, should he be allowed to see the season through as president. Coping with the shortage of referees was a priority. "We have to understand that we are terribly under-strength in regards to match officials and that is going to put a heavy strain on those that are there,'' said Tyrrell. "So I will encourage all of the officials who were involved last season to come back out.

"We had no option but to put on a lot of games for Friday and Saturday nights just to spread the load, it was just one of the things that we saw from the outset when we were calling in referees to sign up because from then we found out that the numbers were going to be low.

"Now that goal would translate into us the executives improving on how we present the product of football, and I have encouraged my league and competitions committee to have a better event management control and being more pro active in bringing enjoyment to the spectators.

"I would like to see more family-orientated groups coming out to the games and the only way you are going to accomplish this is by convincing the family that they are going to enjoy the game.'' Communications is another area in which he feels the BFA will strive to improve.

"We will aim to better advise the public, government, business through releases and other contact on how important football is to the culture and social fabric of this community thereby painting what I would say is more positive picture of what I know is the number one sport in this country. If football stops this country will stop,'' said Tyrrell. He added he was amazed about how some people failed to understand the vital role that soccer played and added that the BFA intended to knock on more corporate doors to spread a more positive image.

"We aim to spread the message that it is good to support soccer financially.

Unfortunately there are some people who still don't believe the benefit of supporting football in this country,'' said Tyrrell.

But football's problems also remain within the fraternity of the BFA and it's affiliates and Tyrrell hopes that achievements will be made towards making dramatic improvements in this area.

"What I feel is a personal goal is that I need to create more harmony amongst the stake holders within the family of football thereby encouraging the affiliates to consider us as one body and not an `us-and-them' situation. If people continue to see disharmony then we are just shooting ourselves in the foot.'' As a member of the Bermuda Council for Drug Free Sports the president feels strongly about the improtance of the drugs policy.

"I want to try and increase the acceptance of drugs don't play here amongst football and get the clubs to buy in with that. They have got to understand that they cannot be encouraging players who they know use drugs.

"A major goal is to put in place a strong technical team to carry out the functions of our entire national programme. Everybody seems to be putting emphasis on who is going to be the next technical director, but I am placing emphasis on the importance of a technical team.''