REGARDING York City Football Club being up for sale, this will not surprise the followers of City. From its conception 80 years ago there has never been a chairman who had the ambition to take this club forward. They have continually and quickly sold their best players for profit.

Any club that is going to make the grade in football will tell you that it is vital to keep your best players and build a team round them.

Take Leeds United. When Don Revie came they were in the bottom half of the old Second Division. He brought in Bobby Collins and built a team round him and today that club is the tenth richest in the world.

Any Club that continually transfers good players will sooner or later pay the ultimate price, and this is the true reason why Y.C.F.C. is in its present position.

B J Calpin,

Neville Street,

Haxby Road, York.

...THE sports' writers of the Evening Press and the sports' journalists of Radio York seem to be obsessed with labelling the players of York City FC with the entirely unnecessary title of "Minstermen".

Is this really a very good choice? There seems to be absolutely no justifiable connection between the two. Surely it would have been better to name them as the "Chocs" or the "Puffers" (very apt really) just as Everton are called the "Toffees" and one of the Sheffield clubs is called the "Blades".

Norwich, another cathedral city's football team, are called the "Canaries", certainly not a reference to the cathedral.

York Minster has a world-wide reputation: York City FC are hardly known outside of York.

Come on Radio York and Evening Press let's have a bit of common sense.

R G Clark,

Cranbrook Avenue,

York.

THERE is one guaranteed way to increase attendances at Bootham Crescent, and that is to play home fixtures on a Sunday.

This last happened for a few months in the early Seventies to combat the power strikes.

Both home and away supporters found it easier and more convenient to come on a Sunday, gates soared to 8,000 and there was generally a carnival atmosphere.

However, it was not popular with the players who had to forgo their Saturday night activities!

On behalf of the many fans who would prefer Sunday football, I say give it a try! It might save the club.

Mr A Howlett,

Common Road,

Dunnington, York.

Updated: 10:25 Thursday, December 27, 2001