The Bermuda Football Association (BFA) will be forced to “scale back or cancel” several of their programmes because they no longer have enough money to fund them.Earlier this week, The Royal Gazette reported that the annual Clyde Best Invitational Youth Tournament had been shelved this year due to organisational difficulties and funding problems.And yesterday the BFA warned that further programmes were facing an uncertain future and could be axed altogether because the $1million grant they previously received had been reduced to $750,000 in the recent Budget.A BFA press statement read: “It is also important to note that the decrease in Government funding means that the BFA cannot do what we had hoped and planned to do with such a significant decrease in funding.“We also recognise that some programmes will be shelved for this year and other programmes will be scaled back or cancelled altogether as we face the harsh reality regarding our present economic circumstances.“We will also work closely with our external partners namely FIFA, CONCACAF and West Ham United International Academy to further enhance these and other opportunities for the family of Bermuda football.”Attempts were made to bring in teams from the US for this year’s Clyde Best tournament but those approached were put off because the BFA were not prepared to cover all of the costs this time around.The two previous tournaments saw the BFA pick up the entire tab including airfares, hotel accommodations and on-Island transport, something the current executive were not willing to do.The statement continued: “It is with much regret that the Bermuda Football Association must formally announce that the 2011 Clyde Best Invitational Tournament will not take place this year. We are disappointed to make this decision; one that was difficult to do, but necessary based on our current realities.“It is important to point out that the 2011 Clyde Best Tournament would have been impossible to organise in the same manner that the 2009 and 2010 tournaments were organised under the previous executive council.“Under those tournament formats, the BFA paid all costs for the visiting teams which included all roundtrip airfares to Bermuda, all hotel accommodations with three meals daily and all on-island transportation.“This was all made possible due to the Government’s Grant to the BFA at the time of $1.5million and $1m in 2009 and 2010 respectively. Upon being notified in February 2011 that the Government Grant was reduced further it was obvious that we could not organise the 2011 Tournament in the same manner as was done during the two previous years.”Clyde Best expressed his disappointment to this newspaper that his tournament had been scrapped and said he was considering organising and promoting the tournament himself in the future, as was the case in previous years.“When you have new people coming in and they’re not really aware of what’s going on you get this kind of thing happening. I’m sure funding has a lot to do with it. (The BFA) have got to try and save their pennies but the sad thing is that it’s the children who are missing out,” he said earlier this week.”However, the BFA have stressed they want to continue working with the former West Ham striker in staging his tournament in the future.Last year saw youth teams from West Ham and French First Division side Saint Etienne compete in the Clyde Best Youth Tournament.