Letter: The boys from Bogota
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Your support makes all the difference.IN YOUR otherwise very enlightening analysis of the World Cup teams (World Cup supplement, 12 June), the Colombian team is described as 'at times (looking) like a gang of pickpockets moving through a fairground when they move forward in closely linked numbers'.
This is both a gratuitous and tasteless metaphor, and quite out of line with the standards of a high quality newspaper. It suggests a preconceived - and completely erroneous - idea about the hard-working, highly professional members of an oustanding team.
Julio D Davila
University College London
London WC1
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