SIR I do wish you would stop publishing letters that seek to promote dissent between the football club and the rugby club.

I prefer football, having been forced to play rugby as a boy, and have followed City FC since the 1956-57 season. You won't catch me at Sixways, not now, not ever. But this doesn't stop me admiring the progress of the rugby club, nor wishing that certain aspects of rugby (sportsmanship and absolute respect for the referee to name but two) could be adopted in the other code.

We all know that the rugby club has a benefactor, which must have helped enormously, but to think that it is just money that has made the difference is to live in cloud cuckoo land. Sporting success, whether helped by money or not, does not come without much hard work, on the pitch and off it, season after season. So good luck to the rugby club I say, they've come a very long way in eight years or so. There is no envy on my part, nor should there be on anyone else's.

Furthermore, do not business psychologists say that the sporting success of a community is reflected in its business success? That being the case it's in everyone's interest to promote success at both clubs.

I'm proud of the city of my birth, and whether it be the football club, rugby club, cricket club - or even now the basketball club, then we should all celebrate success wherever we find it. Anything that promotes the name of Worcester!

I'm all in favour of anything that promotes co-operation between our sports clubs; let's hear no more dissent.

TIM MUNSLOW,

Lower Broadheath,

Worcester.

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