Alcohol sales

Ron Gordon, the Us-based businessman owner of Hibernian Football Club, wants to have the 40-year-old ban on the sale of alcohol in Scottish football stadiums lifted.

Football is a sport that has shown itself incapable of controlling racial chanting and abuse/sectarianism and in some clubs’ sexual abuse of children and young players. What makes him think that clubs could police this alcohol issue?

The purpose of football clubs, one would have thought, was to provide a safe enviroment to enjoy football and not promote the sale of alcohol. “It’s a big revenue stream” – it may well be, but clubs are not publicans .

The sale of alcohol was banned for a very good reason, and perhaps someone could educate Mr Gordon on one of his visits from the US on the reason for the ban, which should remain until football clubs show they control all aspects of their fans’ behaviour .

ROBIN JACK Craigcrook Road, Edinburgh