MANY may remember when Douglas Craig and his fellow York City directors decided to hand over Bootham Crescent to Bootham Crescent Holdings, who were managed also by Mr Craig and co, for so-called "safe keeping".

I would suggest that time has now expired and that Bootham Crescent be handed back to the owners - York City Football Club.

Any talk or thoughts of moving to Huntington Stadium is only one way to bankruptcy, doom and disaster.

Wake up City of York Council and offer a site more in keeping. But no, they have just turned down Civil Service planning permission to develop a site a Clifton Moor for sport.

Derrick Wheatley,

St Anne Court,

York.

Updated: 11:12 Friday, November 14, 2003