Why not try rugby

Oh, dear, oh, dear! Mr Ronci, you really should see a psychiatrist, for you do seem to be very mixed up (Real men don't..., Letter, June 2, 1995). Nor do you seem able to understand what you read (i.e. what I write).

By saying that rugby is a real man's game I did not mean that Indonesians were not "real men." In fact, I was encouraging them to have a go at, and enjoy, the game the way other ASEAN countries do.

Next, it is a simple fact of life that people in this part of the world are smaller than people in some other parts of the world. No discredit to them, that's just how God made us, some bigger, some smaller.

Your "irrefutable facts" are such rubbish that I shall not take up valuable space refuting them. In short, Mr Ronci, having made yourself look very foolish over the question of football (soccer), I suggest you do not do the same over rugby, a game of which you clearly have not the slightest knowledge and, I am sure, have never played.

Far from being bullies, Rugby players are in general mild- mannered people--"gentle giants" you might call the big ones (not all of them are big, of course). I do hope you can be cured of some of your complexes and hang-ups, and wish you well.

R B SAWREY-COOKSON

Jakarta