YOUR Opinion (LET, June 15) does rather give the impression that England's World Cup success would offset the hooliganism in Marseilles, but it is rather doubtful that the people who suffered from it would hold the same point of view.

Incidentally, let us not forget Scotland - which is, I believe part of Great Britain, and three of whose players are members of Blackburn Rovers.

LILLIAN PLEYDELL, Railway Street, Nelson.

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