BEING an exiled Scot living in your fair city of York and having lived here for 20 years, I take great offence at Mike Bentley's clearly racist comments about "red-headed pasty-faced weaklings and the beskirted freeloaders" (It's about time we said See you, Jimmy', The Press, April 13).

We, like Mr Bentley, would love to get a big saw out and cut off Engerlund, bearing in mind you'd probably sink without a trace which, for the rest of the world, would be a fantastic thing.

I had a family wedding to attend in Aberdeen on the day of the Engerlund v Portugal match, so my wife and I called into my uncle's local watering hole.

To my wife's surprise there were about 50 beskirted pasty-faced freeloaders wearing kilts and Portugal tops.

She had no idea how much the English are hated north of the border.

We took great delight when Ronaldo winked as Shrek was sent off yet again for Engerlund and yet again the English couldn't score from the penalty spot.

The song that started round the pub was to the tune of Skinner and Baddiel's Football's Coming Home, but the words were different. It went: "England's coming home, they're coming home".

Let's hope Mr Bentley never opens his mouth spouting his drivel near a pasty-faced freeloading red-headed weakling in York.

See you, Mike Bentley.

Steven Gaffney, York.