Spectator sport
Sir: As the journalist whose Independent article mistakenly accused you of loathing football (Shared opinion, 13 June), may I thank you for your generosity in not pursu- ing what is, quite clearly, a most heinous libel? I must confess that I had always thought of you as a man more at home at Covent Garden than Upton Park, happier listening to a moving rendition of `Che geli- da manna' than singing a lusty chorus of `Who's the bastard in the black?' I now realise that I was entirely mistaken, and that the people's Spectator is ready to take its rightful place in the vanguard of the refreshingly cool, excitingly youthful, pre- millennial Euro-Britain of which we are all so thrilled to be part. The next time a Fleet Street features edi- tor asks me for 1,000 words on some crucial issue of the day — Whither Geri Spice? Can the boy Scholesy really take Gazza's place in the hole behind the front two? — I shall not hesitate to call you for a pithy, well-informed opinion with which to illus- trate the piece.
David Thomas
Daggle Cottage, Aldingbourne, West Sussex
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