Ex-sage of the Blues

Letter: So Karren Brady has left these parts. If the idea was to prove that well-educated women can prosper in football, then she was a success in that she certainly prospered.

That her football club won absolutely nothing while she, the Gold brothers and David Sullivan were in charge has been air-brushed out of their various departing statements.

I can live with that. They did improve St Andrews, or at least half of it, and the Blues did spend as much time in the top flight as elsewhere, something of a rarity in their chequered history, so I won't bring up the fact that Albion managed almost exactly the same record as Brady and her particular bunch for less than half of the cost and one per cent of the hullaballoo.

Let's just say these Londoners came up here and did "all right".

Fair enough, but now Mrs Peschisolido has decided a newspaper column in the Sun and a part in Alan Sugar's BBC-licence-enhanced Apprentice show give her the right to proclaim that, among other things, "nationalised industries do not work".

Quite what prompted this elevation to the political sage I'm not sure, but Karren may like to reflect on the fact that her current employer, the BBC, is perhaps the largest "nationalised industry" left.

Steve Sant, Forest Road, Dudley.