Bermuda Football Association have been accused of operating double standards over the way they handled two incidents involving Somerset Trojans coach Gary Mallory.

Somerset president Colin Smith said he was furious that the BFA have yet to make a ruling on an incident dating back to September when Mallory was attacked by spectators as he escorted one of his players off the pitch after he was sent off.

Yet, he said the Association were quick to ban the coach for a year when he was charged with and then found guilty of "behaviour designed to bring the game into disrepute'' after an incident with a referee in February.

Fellow coach Norbert Simons was found not guilty on an identical charge relating from the same incident which followed a match against Devonshire Colts.

Smith said despite a number of approaches he had yet to get a satisfactory answer from BFA chiefs regarding the incident where Mallory was assaulted, and said he believed their indecision led directly to the coach losing his top several months later.

"I did not take kindly to the fact that there was an incident at BAA Field with him after the second game of the season and the BFA still have not dealt with it to date,'' Smith said. "But they can bring him up on charges and immediately deal with him. That is not fair at all.'' Smith said he could not understand the Association's apparent intransigence to deal with the BAA matter.

"He (Mallory) has gone through something that no coach should have had to have gone through -- being pounced upon by other spectators and maybe players and the BFA still have not dealt with that situation. I think that is totally wrong,'' Smith said.

The president said he had kept up the pressure on the BFA to do something since the incident but to no avail. "The last notice I got from them in January was that they were still looking into the situation,'' Smith said.

"It has almost been a year. What are they trying to tell people? "An important incident like that and they have not dealt with it, but something comes up with him (Mallory) and they deal with him instantly. It is not fair to him at all. That is truly not justice.'' While not excusing the course of action Mallory took with the referee, Smith laid the blame for it squarely at the BFA's door.

"If you had a situation like that and it had not been dealt with it starts to be a source of bad feelings within yourself,'' he said. "It showed. He just started to get more and more frustrated and it resulted in the incident that he got suspended for.

"If they had dealt with it he may have reacted differently to the situation that arose with him.'' Regarding the clearing of Norbert Simons, Smith said he was glad the matter was at an end.

"I'm very much pleased with that,'' he said. "I knew the basis of the incident and that is why I say I'm very happy with the decision that they came up from what I know of the situation.'' Neither BFA president Neville Tyrrell, nor general secretary David Sabir could be contacted as both are off the Island attending a Caribbean Football Union conference in Trinidad and Tobago.

Meanwhile, with Mallory banned and Simons stating at the end of the last season that he may be set to retire, Somerset face some big decisions when it comes to coaching at the club ahead of next season.

However, Smith said no decisions had been taken yet and to his knowledge, Simons had not tendered his resignation.

Simons himself could not be reached for comment.