SIR: "Soccer Fan" Neil Bullock (BEN October 12) who professes to be a keen Bolton Wanderers fan, cannot expect any sympathy from true Boltonians. Instead of trying to link Bolton with Manchester, something that politicians have tried and now mercifully failed to do, he should have worn a white Bolton Wanderers shirt and been proud to educate his German friends as to where Bolton is and what it stands for.

Perhaps his faulty Manchester United shirt was trying to tell him something. True Superwhite supporters wouldn't even dream of buying that shirt.

Mr K F Makin

Chilgrove Avenue, Blackrod

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