I ADMIRE those who stand up to defend what they believe in.

So to Richard Kowenicki, who lambasted this writer and the GFA board in the opinion pages this week under the headline ‘There will be no thuggery in the Business League’, I say: ‘no hard feelings’.

You have your opinion, I have mine. But, that said, I read nothing to change my feelings on social league football and reiterate that compared to the established GFA leagues, it is Mickey Mouse.

I was interested to read the paragraph where he writes that ‘the Business League has been in independent existence for a long time and has survived without the multiple calamities of thuggery, disorder and litigation’.

That’s strange, because a little research on my part found plenty evidence of bad behaviour from the mouth of Rod Hamon, stalwart of the Business League, an official who seems to have resigned, or threatened it, as many times as Frank Sinatra retired. The headline of Wednesday 22 March 2006: ‘I have never been treated with so much disrespect.’