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Lambe Facing International Ban? - Ipswich Town News

Academy winger Reggie Lambe could miss out on making his full international debut with Bermuda later today due to a ban imposed by the Bermuda Football Association earlier this year. Lambe, 16, will become Town's youngest ever full international if he plays in the friendly with St Kitts and Nevis.

According to reports in Bermuda, Lambe was banned from international football until the end of the year by his national association after an incident which took place in a hotel when the Bermuda U15 side was in Texas for the Dallas Cup in April.

It was understood that Lambe and two team-mates, who were involved in similar separate disciplinary infringements in Dallas, would not be able to play for national sides for the rest of 2007, would be on probation for the remainder of the season and would be required to carry out some community service.

The Bermuda Football Association has refused to officially clarify the situation, but their technical committee chairman Mark Trott says that for him the matter is now closed: "We dealt with Mr Lambe and put him on probation, but I am not trying to make a big issue out of something that has already been dealt with.

"That was dealt with right after we returned from the Dallas Cup and we can't continuously go around dealing with people who have already been dealt with. They were all put on probation and nobody was dealt with unfairly."

However, it is also reported that Lambe was invited to train with Bermuda's U23 squad earlier in the year, but eventually didn't make the trip because, according to a team official, he was considered ineligible to play.

Lambe, who joined the Town academy full-time in the summer, is spending three weeks back in Bermuda with the full national team and it seems highly unlikely that he would have been flown to the North Atlantic island if there was no possibility of his involvement in the two friendlies with St Kitts and Nevis, the first later today, the second on Sunday.

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