THE Welsh Premier League has reacted to Cwmbran's complaint of racist abuse from a Bangor City supporter by banning the individual from all Welsh Premiership grounds until the end of the year.

Crows assistant boss Sean Wharton was on the end of 'monkey' chants by a fan and after Bangor identified the individual, he was given a ban from Farrah Road until the end of the season, in effect only two games.

But pressure from Cwmbran has forced the Welsh Premier League to take further action.

A statement last night said: "The Welsh Premier League Board of Directors have banned a 58-year-old Bangor City Support-er from all League Grounds until 31st December 2005.

"This results from allegations made against the individual concerned by Sean Wharton of Cwmbran Town FC following an incident at the match between the two clubs at Farrar Road on 26th February 2005.

"The Board did take into consideration the action taken against the spectator by Bangor City and a letter of apology that he had forwarded to Mr Wharton.

"However, both the League and Football Association of Wales are determined to stamp out racism in Welsh Football and hopeful the action taken will be a deterrent to others."

Cwmbran had called on the league to make a positive statement on their determination to rid footbal of racism and wanted to see a major effort to heighten racism awareness.

This was not mentioned in the statement but a spokesman for the Welsh Premier League said that more was being done.

"We are in an on-going relationship with the Kick Racism out of Football campaign and we are aiming to get a full-time representative from them in Wales, which we don't have at the moment," the spokesman said.

Meanwhile league secretary John Deakin is more convinced than ever on the matter of summer football, after a fact finding trip to Ireland last week, who made the switch from winter football two seasons ago.

"I'm even more convinced now that I've seen what's happening in Ireland that summer football is the way forward for Welsh domestic football," said Deakin.

"Overall, it was generally positive - however, we must talk to the other stakeholders here and then we'll do a brief report to the board.

"After that, we'll report to member clubs at our annual meeting on 21 May.

"Whatever we do, it's going to be up to the clubs. It won't be imposed on them, we'll have to get their consent."