Lamb slaughtered

The World Cup is an international competition and, by its very nature, appeals to a whole host of different nationals living in this country.

It seems odd to me that a "public house" would twist the World Cup into an "English only" event, complaining about European customers.

At the end of the day, the Lamb is a business and shows football not out of patriotism or for some greater social benefit, but to make as much money as possible.

I am sure the brewery who owns the Lamb would be displeased that people are turned away because they are not English, both from a business point of view, but especially with regard to the legal issues of discrimination.

In this case, Mr Lochner was there to support England, his home for most of his life, he just happened to be wearing a German shirt under his St George's cross flag, showing his dual loyalty to his country of birth.

I hope English fans sporting their England shirts around the world were treated better than the Lamb treats its guests.

What is particularly interesting is that the landlord is the treasurer of Rustington's Chamber of Trade and Commerce, and singled out a German in the pub the very week a contingent of Germans from the Twinning Association were in Rustington.

I wonder what they would have made of that.

Luckily, I didn't notice any of them in the pub that night, but then again, I didn't see abuse, troublemaking or 300 customers either.

S Harris

Tideway

Littlehampton

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