On Teletext....a few decent letters here....

"Ticket touting rips off the genuine fans!" - declares an FA spokesperson.

Very noble....but is this the same FA that presented almost half the Cup Final tickets to 40,000 freeloaders, apple polishers, lap dogs, stooge satellites et al - with little or no interest in the game itself?
Is it true one of them asked which player was Flintoff?
Is the pot FA calling the Tout kettle black?

Paul Topping, Chorley.

After the rubbish that was served up under the banner 'The Showpiece Final', one wonders what the other game would have been like.
That's if Blackburn and Watford had surfaced victorious from the semis and faced the fury of the media for denying us the final "everyone wants...."

M.Busby, Birchington, Kent.

To Mal and all you other disgruntled Newcastle fans, consistently attracting gates of 50,000 plus does not make you a big club.
It makes you an extremely well supported club, BIG clubs consitently win trophies over a period of years, which is why Chelsea aren't a big club yet either.

Malc Fitzpatrick, Barnsley.

To Mal and Malc....Consistently, re.crowds must mean the last 15 years and not the 25 years before 'the last 15 years' then eh?!?!

Mutley, Doghouse, Hartlepool!!!!

You don't have to win anything whatsoever to be classed as a big club nowadays, you just have to build a big ground and convince loads of dumb, gullible people that Del Boy's mantra of....'this time next year' ... is an inevitable staement of fact ......


Darlo excepted of course... they can only get the same number of dumb , gullible people they've always got.

"If you build it, they will.... err..... ignore you just like they've always done, say they're not going to watch that rubbish, and when they turn up for a big game ask which one Gabbiadini is - and then talk about the Carvery...."

Carvery? Is he the centre forward?

or did you mean John Carvery, linked with the Pools job two years ago?