NEIL Bramwell is at least consistent with his support of the Americans' terrible behaviour at Boston. He previously was exhorting us to behave in a similar way ourselves.

We are a nation of whiners he says, which is a bit rich coming from a newspaper that forever whines about Blackburn Rovers' luck or bad luck. Indeed, on the back page of the same edition, Filan was whining about the referee at Swindon.

The sports editor's remark about Montgomerie - his hero a week earlier - shows his usual lack of sensitivity. The verbal assaults so saddened Monty's elderly father he decided to leave the course.

What can you expect though from a journalist who specialises in verbal assaults and insults in his column?

KEITH REYNOLDS, Hindle Street, Darwen.

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