AS A 61-year-old ex-pro footballer/manager/referee, I cannot state how proud we should be of the pride of England.

They played in the true spirit of the game with heart, passion and desire.

Unlucky yes, but they accepted defeat and overcame adversity in the game with dignity and courage, pulling on the Three Lions shirt with their only real reward being the honour of doing so.

A shining example to all young players both male and female of how to conduct themselves.

Ian Coleman, Vine Street, York

 

FURTHER to Barbara Hudson’s Soapbox letter, “Gag mag sellers have disappeared” (June 29) and her reply to “have you got a sense of humour?” being “none whatsoever”.

My reply is more in the spirit of the magazine sellers. Being asked “have you a sense of humour?”, I reply in a melancholy tone “not with what I’ve got”.

Sympathetically, they reply “and what have you got?”. Oh, “only 20 pence”.

DM Deamer, Penleys Grove Street, Monkgate, York

 

IT is not often that I disagree with Aled Jones (Letters, June 30). He always talks a lot of sense, but on this occasion I think he is wrong in suggesting that good manners are taught in school.

These, along with kindness, decency and good behaviour should be taught at home, by the mothers involved.

Sadly, this is far too often not the case and so we have growing up a cruel, vicious and badly behaved class of young men who miss no opportunity to inflict their horrible ways on the rest of us.

I don’t know what the answer is, but our laws are far, far too lenient on those who should know better and whom our society could happily do without.

I do not only mean the nasty young perpetrators, but those who encouraged and allowed them to flout any laws of decency and bring lawlessness to our towns and cities.

I am sure that readers of The Press would welcome any useful, workable suggestions.

Apart from locking the whole, nasty lot in gaol, how can society arm itself against these types for the good and safety of the rest of us?

Heather Causnett, Escrick Park Gardens, Escrick, York

 

MY husband says I am unique. I am one of the few ladies who still wears skirts or a dress and not trousers.

But today, walking through town, it was very nice to see so many ladies and young girls wearing a skirt or dress and not trousers.

It must have been the hot weather which caused it. So I am not as unique as he says.

Maureen Robinson, Broadway, York