IN view of the obviously weak state of our international soccer teams, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic, would it not be a good idea for them to join forces and field a single side to represent the whole island?

IN my letter to you (September 24) I urged the paramount necessity of avoiding the use of the language of vilification in all conversation concerning the Green and the Orange in Ireland as a kind of way of honouring the symbolism of the Irish Tricolour.

George Best has called on the football authorities north and south of the border to join together and create a unified national team.