Perhaps, after Andy Murray's thrashing by Rafa Nadal, the Scottish tennis press might just concede that Tim Henman wasn't a "loser" or "bottler" after all.
I read yesterday that Newcastle are set to discuss Joey Barton's future after he was given a suspended sentence for a training-ground punch-up last year.
It was amusing to hear the mostly English pundits and commentators on both TV and radio refer to the Spanish national football team as "perennial underachievers".
SO, it looks likely that European Championships as of Euro 2016 will feature either 20 or 24 sides, as opposed to the current 16 after all the European national football associations came out in favour of the expansion at the weekend.
Terry Butcher feels that James McFadden should stay with Birmingham City and play in the Championship, as opposed to moving to Celtic, as this would be better for the Scottish national team. Craig Brown feels the same but also says Kris Boyd should stay at Ibrox and try and force his way into the Rangers team.
On Wednesday a big screen showing the Euro 2008
semi-final to 22,000 Turkey and Germany fans failed. Remarkably it passed off without rioting, attacks on police or looting of shops.
Michael Smith, by email
It was interesting to learn that Joachim Loew is the first manager of Germany never to have played for the national team. One can think of a few Scotland coaches who have got into major tournaments - Craig Brown, Andy Roxburgh, Walter Smith - having never played for Scotland.
Stephen Lightbody, Paisley
When are the commentators at Euro 2008 going to realise that England are not playing. They just can't help themselves by continually getting in some reference to either the England team or referring to foreign players as being with Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd. Watching the Portugal v Germany match on ITV, I lost count of the English references which destroys the myth that this is just a BBC problem. Be thankful England are not there as they would have been even further humiliated given the class of teams we are seeing at Euro 2008.
That was such a sad letter from R J Stewart in Tuesday's Fans with Laptops; Andy Murray is a credit to Scotland and good luck to the boy in progressing his tennis career at Wimbledon next week.
Well said James Martin (Fans With Laptops, Thursday 19). Like him I do not know who the Rangers Supporters Trust think they speak for. If they would pause and think once in a while they might not do so much damage to the perception others have of Rangers
fans. The club has not complained about next season's fixtures and I suspect they will be quietly pleased to get two of the tougher away fixtures out of the way early. Unless there is a repeat of the exceptional fixture congestion of last year, which every fair-minded supporter will admit influenced the outcome of the league, they will be confident they can compete very strongly this season.
I wish to offer an
alternative perspective to
RJ Stewart's interpretation of Andy Murray's recent
withdrawal from the Stella Artois Championship (Fans with Laptops, Tuesday 17).
While fans of either of the old firm can amuse
themselves during the summer months with rumours linking them to all sorts of marvellous players which Europe's real superpowers don't want, the situation is always very different at Firhill.
It was interesting to see Fabio Capello being interviewed, in addition to the deep discussion by the Match Of The Day panel, during half-time in the France v Romania match. Is this the first in a series of interviews with all the home (UK) international team managers and discussions on the future World Cup prospects of each of the home nations?
I was appalled to see my countrymen Deco and Cristiano Ronaldo, two of the most talented players in the world, described as having "turned simulation into an art form" (Darryl Broadfoot, June 6).
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