Anglophobic?

And again it appears the usual, boring, recurring attack against me if I'm so "impudent" to criticize something concerning English matters. Now we have a new entry: Mr. Roger Baker (The Jakarta Post, Aug. 19, 1995), with his "tongue in cheek" and his "between the lines. Nothing doing. Vic Mills' article (Aug. 4, 1995) was slanderous from its title up to its last word, especially "under the lines."

Mr. Baker thinks I am anglophobic only because I have my own opinions on rugby, or because I say that English soccer is at a very poor level.

Does it mean to be against English soccer if I say that it became an "old glories' shelter"? It is the truth and it will remain a truth until somebody demonstrates that Gullit, Hughes, Hoodle, Rush and so on, are sturdy teenagers dressed up as old, finished players.

Mr. Baker, I'm neither a garbage thrower nor a pseudonym disguised as readers' letters. I fight whatever attempts at psychological colonialism at all levels (the role played by a sponsor in something which should be called Liga Indonesia, is a clear display of those kinds of attempts).

PIERO RONCI

Jakarta