Stunned at Gary Speed’s death

The tragic news about the death of Gary Speed has stunned me (Yorkshire Post, November 28).

I promise you that in a lifetime of hearing of sudden deaths and suicides, I cannot think of a single one that has shocked me more.

A death of a guy just reaping the reward with my national team Wales of all the hard work John Toshack did with those raw youngsters (now growing into men), and a guy actually becoming more and more articulate in his TV work?

Tell me it is not true.

Job qualities

From: Graeme Mitchell, Crosshills Road, Cononley.

DOES Nick Clegg think that if Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger were black they’d be sacked (Yorkshire Post, November 26)? Of course not.

If a manager is good enough he will remain in a job. The most high profile black manager to date was Paul Ince who got sacked from Blackburn, not because of his colour but because of the league position they were in. Am I the only person who is missing something?

Unjust review

From: Rod Eastwood, Nursery Avenue, Ovenden, Halifax.

I HOPE that people won’t be put off from going to see the new Wuthering Heights by Tony Earnshaw’s churlish review (Yorkshire Post, November 11).

Granted, some of the acting is weak and some of the dialogue is banal, but Mr Earnshaw has chosen to ignore the many brilliant aspects of the film. I have never seen a satisfactory film or play of the book, but for its first hour this version seemed worthy to be just that.

“Primitive, crude and guaranteed to cause offence” – isn’t that what its first critics said of the novel?

I feel that your critic has been very unjust.