SIR: Newspaper headlines, media coverage wide and far, and for what - Paul Gascoigne, a footballer who can't even speak good English!

It does prove to me how all the wrong people and personalities can have such influence on daily life. I wish England the best of luck in the World Cup, but quite honestly I wouldn't put two bob on them! With or without Gazza!

The ruling classes are alive and kicking. Yes, but all the wrong sort! Sows ears never will make silk purses.

Robert Anderson, Thaxted Place, Bolton.

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