SIR – It is absolute nonsense that Mark Lawn (pictured) should have suffered as he did at the hands of the mindless.

Bradford City were recognised as having the best-behaved fans in the Premiership after Wimbledon at the end of our first season there. There are no prizes for guessing who were regarded as having the worst-behaved fans.

You are perfectly right that these poor losers should be banned for life from all grounds, they do nothing but shame us.

We owe Mark Lawn a great debt in still being able to follow our favourite football club. Bradford would be a much poorer city if we had no football club to follow, win or lose.

Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire