Sir, - Why are the Irish obsessed with an English soccer team and English soccer in general? Isn't there enough sport in this country to occupy everyone's mind three times over?
After 700 years of English occupation, could it be a product of the hostage-captor syndrome? Could the talk of rejoining the Commonwealth have more to do with Manchester United than a common heritage? - Yours, etc, Darrell Greer,
Rathmines, Dublin 6.