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DRAW30 November (in Lisbon) The 16 teams will be divided into four groups of four. Please do not fail us!Judge RICHARD E TUTTLE (Retired, California Superior Court) Mokelumne Hill, California, USASir: How would Ken Livingstone feel if the terrorists flew their planes into buildings in London instead of New York? Mr Livingstone’s comments calling the American President the greatest threat to world peace is forgetting Mr Bin Laden and the millions who support him. They started this, not America.I guess people like Mr Livingstone would suggest we just pretend it doesn’t exist and it will all go away as the terrorists continue to organise and conduct terror all over the globe.
What about the Bali bombing and the bombing at a hotel in Jakarta? What about the Sudan, where people are being enslaved and killed because they are not Muslim? There are so many other examples of this worldwide jihad, but what does Mr Livingstone suggest?Remember the Nazis and how people desperately tried to pretend Hitler wasn’t all that bad? Pretending didn’t make the problem go away; it made it worse.I don’t agree with everything Mr Bush has done, but I’m proud he’s my President and I’m proud Tony Blair is a leader with courage to fight when he must. Stopping this type of tyranny takes willpower, blood, and many lives so that people like Mr Livingstone can complain about those who dare to act. I pray that Londoners never have to go through what New Yorkers have been through, but if they do, then they will know we really are at war and the only thing that will stop it is force.RICK CLOUGH Rustburg, Virginia, USASir: Michael Gasaway, of South Carolina (letter, 19 November) wants to know how Ken Livingstone became Mayor of London.Well, Michael, this is what happened. A sweetly struck goal in the 92nd minute by the Southend midfielder Jay Smith, his second of the match, ensured that whoever takes over from the caretaker manager, David Webb, at the end of this week, will inherit a side who still have a say in this season’s FA Cup. Substitutes not used: Wood, Patten, SobersPort Vale (4-4-2): Brain; Pilkington, Collins, Reid, Boyd; Briscoe, Cummins, Littlejohn (Armstrong, 81), Burns; Paynter, McPhee. Substitutes not used: Birchall, Delaney, Eldersman, Brown.Referee: L Cable (Surrey).. But Vale gathered themselves and when Adrian Littlejohn cut the ball back from the byline Billy Paynter should have scored.
The striker made amends for that glaring miss six minutes before the break, when he turned Chandler and struck his shot low into the net.Ford United (5-3-2): Lunan; O’Sullivan (Reinelt, 90), Halle, Chandler, Perkins, Cooper; Fiddes, Edwards, Poole; Watson (Fenton, 70), Abraham. The potential for a slip-up against opposition who were 74 places below Horton’s men clearly led to a safety-first approach.They were almost too careful as Sam Cooper was allowed to shoot from the edge of the area after just five minutes. With two out of five injury-time minutes played, Ford won a free-kick that, from 25 yards out, Glen Poole stroked home. It was a great goal and one fit to grace a greater stage than Ford’s Oakside stadium, which nevertheless was able to boast a crowd that was 10 times greater than their usual Ryman Premier League attendances.The first match between these two sides had ended 2-2, but the chances of this game being as open were slight, especially given Vale’s cautious approach to this tie.