Your feature on Pollok FC (Evening Times, October 11) was first class and brought back memories of my childhood in Pollokshaws.

I did not recognise the playing field, as in my boyhood days the pitch was an uncompromising ash or cinder composition with sawdust linings.

As boys, we never paid to see a game, sometimes digging under the corrugated iron fencing surrounding the ground.

My favourite player then was centre forward Eric Armstrong.

In later years I was friendly with Bobby Collins. He jogged in Pollok Park when he was visiting his relatives in Pollokshaws.

Memories, memories! ARRWEE Glasgow Des does good

Good to see an upbeat story (Funnyman stands up for work in the community, October 14). Des McLean seems like a really sound bloke. I love his show on Clyde on a Friday night! WHISKYJACK Posted online Fat cats should pay

GW of Uddingston (Letters, October 13), sticks the boot into workers who cannot survive on low wages and below inflation offers of increases.

We've been told for years that there's no money for pay rises, the NHS, schools and tackling poverty. Now we learn there is billions for bank spivs and speculators whose greed led us into this mess.

The fat cats should pay the price, not the workers. BARNEY HIGGINS Coatbridge Regal memories

I AM writing to say how surprised I was to see the picture of the Queen in my house at 71 Sandyfaulds Street in the Gorbals printed in the Evening Times on October 8.

It brought back happy memories.

We moved shortly after that event to the house we have now lived in for 47 years. My son was there, too. He was only four and just wanted to see the Queen's car! CATHERINE DEMPSEY Glasgow The funny side of life

I am reading the book I M Jolly by Tony Roper and a chapter caught my fancy.

It may be history repeating itself, but here goes.

Gordon Brown has ditched the banking fat cats without a second thought. More than 2000 years ago another guy turfed the moneylenders out of the temple.

However the money was theirs, not the investors.

Thanks for the laugh, Tony. Rikki would have had a good laugh too. A LINDSAY Glasgow WRITE: Evening Times, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow G2 3QB. Please include your name and address. E-MAIL: letters@eveningtimes.co.uk Please include postal address. TEXT: key in the word 'etletters', leave a space then send your comments to 88010. Max 160 characters. Please include your name or initials and where you're from. Texts cost 25p at all times. HOT TOPIC: Asset will bring more investment to city

This hotel is stunning and the design is top class.

This can only be good news for the city and will encourage other developments and further investment in the city.

Great news. BIGDOGG, Glasgow Our changing city

Glasgow has changed over the last 20 years and the only way we can change for the better is to bring in hotels like this and ATTRACT more business, bring in more tourists. JOHN MACLEAN, Glasgow Building workers' boost

I'm sure there's a lot of construction workers from Glasgow who would welcome work on this new hotel. They're not getting the work in housing just now with the state of the economy. PETE, Glasgow No point in a new hotel

Again we see another pointless hotel that will do nothing for Glasgow. MEEP, Shawlands Spending key to growth

I DON'T think this hotel will benefit Glasgow as much as people think.

A hotel such as this will attract the kind of person who is a 24-hour guest'.

They will not be spending in the local area but within the hotel. SUBROSA, posted online Eyesore on city skyline

The development is as ludicrous as the unimpressive, and ugly-looking BBC Building on the Clyde.

This will be an out-of-scale glass eyesore which is trying to make Glasgow more elitist. PEOPLE POWER, Glasgow Little demand for tower

The design is crass, the location is wrong, the economic assessment of demand is based entirely on false assumptions and the expectation of regeneration is deluded. NBAKER, Glasgow Plan's a winning formula

I think the development can be something of which the city can be proud.

The involvement of this hotel group gives the project credibility. It is a Blue Chip firm. These guys will have looked at everything the city has to offer and will understand where it aims to go. SUNNYJIM, South Side