I WATCHED the tennis at Wimbledon on and off most of last week, including the men's final on Sunday.Young men and women playing for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The football season is not far off when, again, millions of pounds will be passed around a few probably over-rated players.

The British Grand Prix at Silverstone saw the almosthysterical crowd hoping for a Lewis Hamilton win - fast cars going round and round, but the millions of pounds stay in a few hands.

The shameful irony is we have several thousand of our young men fighting unwinnable wars and who gives a damn? Their families live in dread of news that a son or husband will not be coming home alive.

They probably earned a few hundred pounds a week for risking their lives daily. Not for them the silver cups, fancy plates or the obscene huge pay cheques.

And you know, we are all to blame for this scandalous situation.

We let Tony Blair get away with it and it is up to us to make sure Gordon Brown does not.

It is time the British people, so obsessed with celebrities and sport, turned their attention to getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hugh Pender, Darlington.