1 JULY 2000, Page 25

Skill of the dorks

From Mr Alex Galloway Sir: Your analysis of English football (Leader, 24 June) was perhaps not best served by the example you chose (`The entire German team can speak English, though not a single member of the English team can speak German'). Didn't our monoglot dorks manage to beat those lin- guistic geniuses 1-0?

Alex Galloway

London SE6