I FEEL absolute outrage at the Millwall football horrors in which 47 police officers and 26 horses were injured.

The most effective way of stopping the football war would be to ban for a month any team where trouble flared and any recurrence after that ban should result in a ban for the rest of the season.

Soldiers with rubber bullets would be of more use than defenceless animals.

My father told me that when he was a young man there used to be two constables at a football match. They used to watch the game and occasionally glance at the crowd. Now football duty must be a nightmare. Our police must be protected.

It is time the Government got its act together and tried a little gunboat diplomacy on various trouble sports.

(Miss) B M PACKER

Croft Road

Swindon