Test crowd
Sir,—ln the extravagant phrasing alas all too common on the front page of “The Press” since the Springbok tour started, your reporter, Mr Comer, describes the 42,000 crowd at the test in a 50,000 capacity £?ound as "pitiable.” What a shame Mr Comer did not apply his assessment to the protesters. In a country where we are constantly told more than half the population oppose the tour, and in a community of over a quarter of a million just 6000 people put their feet where their feelings were. Naturally they got the lion's share of the publicity. They were the ones testing the law. One might ask where all the sporting types who oppose the tour and have had no compunction expressing their views were on the day. Not home watching that racist team on television, surely? — Yours, etc.,’
david McCarthy. August 18, 1981.
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