GENTILE WOULD SEE RED

After reading your piece on Neymar [FFT 276], highlighting his recent one-man show against PSG, I continued with the ‘Hogging The Headlines’ feature at the bottom of the page. I was particularly interested that Claudio ‘Anything But’ Gentile featured on the list of one-man game-changers, based entirely on his fouling Diego Maradona no fewer than 23 times in the second round of the World Cup in 1982. In today’s game, Gentile would have seen red at least six to eight times for the same number of offences due to the persistent fouling – particularly 23 – being levelled at one of the world’s best players, such as on Neymar at the World Cup, where the refs are even less tolerant than usual. Richard Bagley, via email