I'm sick as a parrot over these pampered football softies!

pounds 100It's Such an insult to all supporters when Alex Ferguson moans about his team having to play four games in eight days (six hours' work).

With the amount of money they get, and how they're supposed to be super fit, they should be able to play every day.

They get all sorts of luxuries, including travel and treatment.

Supporters have to work at least 40 hours a week, get poor wages and wait weeks for a hospital appointment.

Wake up Ferguson, face the real world. - T. Baker, Northampton.

Footballers' wages come from Sky viewers and footie fans. If you want to cut them, stay off the terraces and switch off the telly!

pounds 5I Understand there are around 160 millionaire MPs. Could you tell me how many were millionaires BEFORE they entered Parliament? - J. Wraith, South Shields, Tyne & Wear.

Shocking cynicism, JW! How could MPs find time in their overworked, underpaid lives to make millions? (Answers, please, on a postcard . . . )

pounds 5Instead of Camelot deciding who gets the Lottery handouts (with a little bit of help from Tony Blair!) why not invite punters to buy cards that nominate a variety of specific charities?

The public could then decide exactly where the cash is spent on other worthy causes.

Mainly funding arts and sports doesn't really compare, does it. - E. M. Whatley, Derby.

The National Lottery is the most divisive thing to hit Britain since Maggie. While Camelot don't decide where the money goes, they and a few hundred multi-millionaires are the only REAL winners.

pounds 5Our violent crime- ridden estates have been created by the planners of the Sixties. The multi-storey flats they built are fast becoming modern-day slums where drug pushers ply their evil trade. The walkways and underpasses which were meant to protect people from traffic are now muggers' paradises with their dark unlit tunnels.

Old-style terraced houses were made obsolete by the Sixties building boom, and thousands of good homes were bulldozed to make way for so-called modern planning.

But before all this happened residents were happy in their communities and could leave their front doors open and still be safe. - Norman Pritchard, Halewood, Merseyside.

Poor planners don't wreck society on their own, Norman. Poor schools, poor prospects and politicians like Margaret Thatcher do the real damage.

pounds 5I Was walking round a garden centre, and watched a man in T-shirt and shorts try out several garden hammocks. Then he went to sleep in one of them.

An assistant put his fingers to his mouth and said""Shhh" to anyone who went near him.

The assistant told me that while the man had been asleep they had sold eight hammocks! - A. Ridden, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

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pounds 5In the election campaigns we've seen chickens, foxes, bears, a rhino and a dog. All we need now are the jackasses -- or have we got enough of those in the Tory Party already? - Adrian Hill, Broomhill, Sheffield.

Unfortunately no single party claims a monopoly, Adrian!

pounds 5I Cannot believe the sheer arrogance of Michael Caine in last week's Sunday Mirror.

He goes out with John Major and Tony Blair for an expensive meal and demands assurances on his tax commitments or he will quit the country.

What chance have I got with a couple of chip butties? - S. Lister, Toxteth, Liverpool.

One meal, one vote!

pounds 5I Was upset by your story about the woman who did not want to donate her bone marrow to help her sick sister - because she was afraid of hospitals.

How did she think her sister felt lying there in hospital knowing that the one person who could help her had turned her back on her?

So many of us would love to have the chance to help someone we care about - to show them just how much they are loved. - Mrs Jean Marsh, Tottenham, London N.

TIGER'S MODEL FAN

I read last week's Sunday Mirror and saw your story about super- golfer Tiger Woods and the women fighting for his affections, including that sexy, sexy model Tyra Banks. My golf's lousy, but I'd practise 24 hours a day if I knew Tara was waiting at the clubhouse for me!

- Jack Watkins, Brighton.

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