AN outraged official of the Bolton Wanderers' Disabled Supporters' Association has joined national calls for England soccer boss Glenn Hoddle to be sacked.

It follows remarks in today's Times where Hoddle is quoted as saying that people born with disabilities are paying for sins committed in a previous life.

Bernard McCartin, who suffers from osteoarthritis and is confined to a wheelchair, is a committee member of Bolton Wanderers Disabled Supporters' Association.

As a member of the 200-strong association, the biggest of its kind in Britain, Mr McCartin is writing to the Football Association calling for Hoddle to be sacked.

Disgusting

He said: "The comments this man has made are disgusting and outrageous and I want his head. At the end of the day I am a soccer fan and it is people like me, disabled or not, who pay this man's wages. He has no right to say these things."

In a newspaper interview, Hoddle - a devout Christian - said his belief in reincarnation encompassed the view that "what you sow, you have to reap".

"You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and a half-decent brain," he told The Times. "Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. What you sow, you have to reap."

Hoddle's controversial statements fuelled renewed calls for his resignation as England coach, provoking anger among disabled groups and politicians.

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