Madam, - I can only assume that Kevin Myers (An Irishman's Diary, June 25th) had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he suggested that Wayne Rooney "is probably the greatest soccer player the world has seen since Pele and Best".
Where was Mr Myers in 1986, when the great Diego Maradona almost single-handedly won the World Cup for Argentina? - Yours, etc.,
PAUL DELANEY, Beacon Hill, Dalkey, Co Dublin.