Sir: For years our media experts have claimed that English league football is the best in the world.
Watching televised football on Sundays this season, I have felt that, in addition to the obvious higher technical standard of the Italian Serie A football and their players, more goals were being scored than in the Premier League.
Your league tables today confirm this: they show that 25 per cent more goals per game have been scored so far in Italy's top league (3.22 against 2.58). Put another way, for every three goals scored in the Premier League, Serie A spectators see four.
Only the most parochial could claim that any current English team matches the class and talent of the top Italian teams.
Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL D VARCOE-COCKS
London W6
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