Letter: ABE spells bigotry

"THIS is a football tournament." So writes Duncan Hamilton (Scrutiny, 6 June). That being so, I wonder why writing about it is not confined to the sports section. Perhaps he regards the World Cup as a godsend during what is usually regarded by journalists as "the silly season".

Where is this liberal elite that he refers to? I've not met a Scot in years who would support England.

He is right that the grainy images of 1966 should be confined to the archives – along with the Archie Gemmill goal (it was 1978 for goodness sake) and the grand slam win at Murrayfield in 1990 (will we never hear the end of it?).

At least he did not claim some of his best friends are English but he will be supporting Argentina, Spain and Brazil – in other words, any team rather than England. It is this that makes him and those like him "narrow-minded bigots".

George Wilson, Holton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire