Sporting life for some IT never ceases to amaze me the resourcefulness and spirit of English people when times are not as good as they could be. Take, for example, thousands of unemployed people who attended Royal Ascot every day for six days. Obviously, some would have jobs and had taken their holidays to coincide with the big racing event, but I think we can safely assume the vast majority were unemployed or had very under-standing bosses. What an inspiration they must be to the people who can't find work and are in debt to banks and worried about the future. These people should take heart, for they only need to look to thousands of England supporters in Germany as another example of how to be unemployed and still enjoy yourself. How they cheer us when we see them on the news, singing and slightly the worse for drink. Millions of people throughout the world see, through television, the behaviour of the English abroad. How is it, they must ask themselves, that English supporters can party so much, yet have no work to go to? English resilience or subsidy? Peter Paul Razzi,
L19 Touchline yobs peril I WOULD like to say how disgusted I am to read in the ECHO (June 26) about referees working at youth games who are in fear of their lives due to enraged parents on the touchline and snotty-nosed children having a pop. This is another example of the yob culture that we are faced with in the UK today. It is disgusting how these parents display their anger and immaturity in front of their children. No wonder kids are going around hitting and killing people, if this is the upbringing they are receiving. I feel ashamed of these people and there should be a "one strike and you are out" policy regarding youth games; therefore, if you can't behave reasonably, then you are banned from attend-ing/playing among normal civilised human beings. Debbie,
Walton (full name supplied) Keep an open mind DOES Neil Farrell (ECHO Letters, June 27) live on the dark side of the Moon? He did not know that ECHO columnist Tom Slemen, author of over 20 best-selling books on the paranormal, popular radio broadcaster of spine-chilling ghost stories, and theatre-filling lecturer on the super-natural, was an expert on ghosts. Mr Farrell may think ghosts are figments of the imagination, but millions of people across the worldhave seen ghosts, and that list includes Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Charles, Sting, and even several Presidents of the United States. I am sure many ECHO readers have also had supernatural experiences, and although I haven't seen a ghost, I am wise enough to be open-minded to the possibility of an afterlife. David Carlyle,
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