The Yorkshire County Cricket Club's one day team are referred to as "Carnegie".

We now play at the "Carnegie" Stadium instead of the Headingley Cricket Ground. The rugby union team are Leeds "Carnegie" and the rugby league team play for the "Carnegie" Cup instead of the RL Challenge Cup.

I understand that the new cricket pavilion, when built, is to be known as the "Carnegie" Pavilion.

Why couldn't it have been called after one of our former Yorkshire stars, say Fred Trueman, instead of this stupid name?

Full marks to the YCCC for trousering this seemingly never-ending source of funding from Leeds' second university, but haven't we gone far enough with commercial naming rights?

KEITH HANDLEY, Horsforth, via email


It would appear Mr Bates has somewhere in the region of 12 months to raise enough money to buy back Thorp Arch training ground for Leeds United, or risk losing it altogether.

I think we all know that our best chance of developing on the pitch has got to be by the progression of young talent off it.

As a club we've taken many a backward step over the last few years – including the sale of Thorp Arch – and although Mr Bates has had his fair share of criticism he stopped the rot when no-one else was willing or able to step in.

However, he is also a businessman – we all know that – and, to be perfectly honest, I will not begrudge the inevitable swelling of his bank account when he finally decides to cash in on Leeds as long as we are left in a healthy position and sold to someone who is right for Leeds.

With that in mind then Mr Bates please buy back Thorp Arch with some of the many pounds you have intelligently generated over the last few years.

Our debt is minimal, you got a whopping sum for the youngsters poached by Chelsea, more cash is coming in from the sale of James Milner on top of previous decent sums for the likes of Matthew Kilgallon/Rob Hulse etc, with very little outlay on players or ground development.

I reckon the £10m you put down for Leeds has long since repaid itself, on top of which you have debt-free club in the ascendancy which is going to be worth a lot of money.

Cough up Ken. Buy back Thorp Arch. It's good for you, good for Leeds, good for the fans and players.

Win, win situations are rare in this neck of the woods!

PHIL KILBRIDE, Leeds, via email

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WE could not envisage when Twenty20 came to cricket what ramifications and upsets would come with the popularity and money involved.

It takes some believing how much money has been injected into the game now that Rupert Murdoch's Sky and others are competing for broadcasting rights in the UK, Australia and elsewhere.

If this game moves on in the direction it's going, Dubai might become the headquarters of cricket? Lord's might host the one day Ashes games, perhaps the rest will go to Australia where they love to see the Poms beaten?

Many things have been undertaken in recent years, but Twenty20 takes the biscuit.


KEVIN MAGUIRE, Hanover Street, Batley

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