Kirk and Wright confronted each other after the game

Ballymena United manager Tommy Wright and Lisburn Distillery boss Paul Kirk have both vowed to fight the six-match stadium bans imposed on them.

The hefty suspensions have been handed out after disturbances at the recent Carnegie League game between the clubs.

The Irish FA have also fined both bosses �250 while Ballymena have also been fined a further �1,000.

Wright says he has been unable to find any example in world football of a boss being banned from an entire stadium.

The stadium ban also extends to a half mile radius of where a match is taking place.

"I have spoken to Frank Clark, who is vice-chairman of the League Managers Association," said Wright.

"I've checked on the internet and I've tried to find someone who has been banned from the ground but it hasn't happened in my recollection."

Wright also told BBC Sport that the IFA disciplinary committee had refused to view video evidence from Ballymena United from the match in question.

The IFA committee appears to have decided that Wright and Kirk exchanged blows during the match but both managers are emphatically denying these claims.

I'm going to fight it tooth and nail and if that means going outside a football hearing, I will do that Tommy Wright

"I had video evidence to prove that (no punches were thrown) but it wasn't allowed to be used because it wasn't independent.

"Now through the club solicitors, I am getting CCTV coverage of the event and hopefully it will be used.

"I'm going to fight it tooth and nail and if that means going outside a football hearing, I will do that."

Kirk was equally irate in the wake of the apparently unprecedented penalties handed down by the IFA.

"I don't think they can ban me from the stadium," an angry Kirk told the BBC.

"I'm challenging it. A stadium is a public amenity.

"Every other manager who has been banned, sits in the stand and that's it."

Kirk said that he would have accepted the normal touchline ban and he added that he now intends to quit his role as chairman of the Irish League managers' forum.

"I feel like packing everything in and having no contribution to football whatsoever to the new league, the managers' forum, the referees' committee...anything.

no punches were thrown and the allegation was that punches were thrown." Paul Kirk

"I feel like coming in and doing my job and going home.

"They have completely knocked the heart clean out of me. I've never even been in trouble."

Kirk accepted that he and Wright had transgressed after the match.

"Two managers pointed the finger at each other and challenged each other verbally.

"We shouldn't have done it and we admitted that.

"But no punches were thrown and the allegation was that punches were thrown."

Kirk added that the IFA "are infringing my human rights".

"Technically speaking, the club could turn around and say:'If you are not available on a Saturday, we're going to sack you, if you are not here to carry out your functions for the club'."

Missiles, including a leg of lamb were thrown on to the pitch, while the two managers exchanged angry words after the game.

In a further blow for Ballymena, the club have been fined �1,000 for breaching rules on payments to amateur players.

Crusaders have also been fined �1,000 by the IFA because of a similar breach.