DUE to a total ban on cigarette advertising, the most famous football annual has been forced to drop its name after 33 years.

Therefore I was very surprised that you saw fit to publish a photograph on the back page of the Evening Press, February 24 of a possible saviour of York City FC, Brookes Mileson, smoking a cigarette at Saturday's match.

Surely your photographer took more than one photograph, one without the cigarette, if not could it not have been removed by modern technology?

Ken Thorpe,

Ebor Way,

Upper Poppleton, York.

Updated: 11:28 Saturday, March 01, 2003