I don't believe that a "score" has ever been below five, and even after some atrocious displays the person who makes the assessment is extremely generous.
If this is done not wishing to upset players, maybe the solution would be to pass the job on to an independent adjudicator, perhaps a season ticket holder.
B Taberner,
Parbold

Degree of debt a ridiculous concept
That fewer young people are opting to go on from school to university comes as little surprise.
I don't say that a college education should be free of charge to anyone who wants one.
How could it be when the Government is trying to get everyone to go to uni, regardless of real academic ability?
But to expect young people to take on huge amounts of debt in addition to all the other debts they will face when trying to buy a home in later life, is a ridiculous concept.
It is also teaching young people that incurring debt is the natural order of things when, in fact, the country would not be in the mess it's in if people were encouraged to live within their means.
Bryan Midgeley, via email

TV images of Tiananmen Square
No matter how spectacular the Beijing Olympics turn out to be, no matter how well organised, I will not be able to get the TV footage of the Tiananmen Square Massacre out of my mind.
It happened 19 years ago, but there is still not much evidence that China is any less authoritarian or any more a friend of democracy and freedom of speech.
When the Games are over, and China has succeeded in its public relations campaign, I hope the world still remembers those brave protesters of June '89 and doesn't run away with the idea that the Chinese leaders have suddenly seen the light.
Name and address supplied

Reaping Thatcher's fuel folly
Many years ago, the Honourable Lady privatised all of our energy companies and virtually closed all the coal mines.
The net result is that we are now paying the price of this folly.
The powers-that-be, in their wisdom, have left us without an alternative supply, other than North Sea Gas which was obviously bound to run out in time.
I felt that at some later date we would regret these actions. We have now reached that time.
We have two years until the next election. Let us think about those past years of Thatcherism and the effect they are having on our lives today.
Name and address supplied

England captain a relieved man?
Michael Vaughan shedding tears at giving up the captaincy of the England cricket team?
It must have been relief, surely?
P White, via email