Mr Tostevin’s comments come on the back of Rhodes’ disgraceful scenes earlier this week when their match against Guernsey was abandoned after they had five players sent off and their manager ordered away from the team bench.Mr Tostevin said: ‘If I’m still in office in 2007 I will recommend to council that we do not go to Rhodes because I would be worried for the safety of our management teams and our players.’He would not comment on Rhodes’ much-published events earlier this week because he did not attend the abandoned match which has since resulted in the Greek island team’s withdrawal from the football competition and the offenders being banned for life from playing for Rhodes by their own association.Mr Tostevin, who said he was proud of both the JFA’s men’s and women’s teams behaviour on and off the field this week, added: ‘I’m going on what I’ve seen from Rhodes’ teams in previous tournaments and I believe it is highly unlikely that we will go there.’Meanwhile Guernsey manager Colin Fallaize fears that football could be kicked out of future Island Games after the violent and chaotic scenes of this week.Rhodes turned the Friendly Games into the Ugly Games with a shameful display of punching, kicking, spitting and stamping.Fallaize said: ‘A lot of people have worked so hard to change the profile of football, particularly with regard to these Games, and I can see the disgraceful incidents of Tuesday night dragging the sport’s name through the mud again.’It wouldn’t take very much for some people to start thinking that maybe football shouldn’t be a part of the Games, and that frightens me.’
