SIR: In the Bolton Evening News on September 23, you asked for thoughts on the story "Crackdown on soccer trouble". The article starts: "Residents living near the Reebok Stadium are calling for a football nuisance committee to be set up".

Well I'm a local resident and haven't called for any such committee, nor was I aware that any such committee had been called for until I read about it in the Bolton Evening News. When, where, and who called for this committee to be set up, and so quickly after the previous Saturday's match, I'd like to know?

As to the meetings held, and to be held, at St. Elizabeth's Church Hall, none of the residents living in the area have been informed by the Brazley Residents' Association; it is only through the Bolton Evening News that I am aware of anything the Residents' Association are planning, or have done.

If on a match day I want to go to the new Asda store, and, in the near future, the other developments, I don't appreciate being made to walk the long way round via the Ingersoll Rand/St. Joseph's footpath, just because residents of Greenwood Lane don't want to see fans making their way to the ground. Sefton Lane is a public right of way; farmers who have blocked off rights of way across their land have been fined for doing so.

We shall all have to get used to the stadium and other new developments, we shouldn't be looking for or creating problems. There will no doubt be problems in the future, but let's deal with them as and when they arrive.

Resident, Brazley

Avenue, Horwich.

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