Letter: Sporting ties

Would your readers please lobby the Scottish and British governments to fully devolve sport so that the nations comprising the UK have their own teams for the 2012 Olympics?

As an Englishman, I will find it difficult to support the many sports men and women who were born in England, to at least one English parent and were, more often than not, raised in England, but nevertheless choose to compete for another "home nation" against England in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

How about a petition requesting devolved teams from now on? What better time to field teams for each nation than at the Olympic Games in London in 2012, which can then be better prepared for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow?

STEPHEN GASH

St Augusta View

Carlisle