A football team has been booted out of the Ke-Connect Internet League for its "horrendous" disciplinary record.

Division Two side Clarendon were expelled by the league at a special meeting when clubs voted 50-11 in favour of removing the Colchester-based team - well above the two-thirds majority required.

League secretary Pat Maudsley said previous warnings to the club about behaviour had gone unheeded.

He said: "It is unfortunate that this course of action had to be taken, but Clarendon's disciplinary record has been going simply from bad to worse and wasn't something just restricted to the current season."

He described that record of 16 sendings off and 60 yellow cards in the past two seasons as "horrendous" and "totally unacceptable".

Clarendon secretary Kevin Barr said the club was considering an appeal to the Essex County FA.

"We probably will appeal. I've got to talk with the club management first.

"The decision annoys me. We're always called a pub side, but all the teams have got headquarters at pubs.

"But the referees always seem wary that we are called a pub side. Our record is no worse than last year and it did improve in March and April."

Another club, University of Essex, were allowed to stay in the league.

The management committee had recommended expulsion due to poor administration, but their pleas to remain in were accepted as they won their vote 36-26.

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