(Ed's note - as the writer said in his email to us with the letter that follows - 'No point in sending this to that bastion of virtue Mr Samuel, but I thought you might be interested for the website?)

I thought I would respond to your article in the Daily Mail on the 15th of September with regard to Emmanuel Adebayor and the events at Eastland’s Stadium on Saturday.

The first point to make is that the chant you mention is of course intolerable.

You use the term a ‘significant percentage’ to describe the numbers of Arsenal supporters partaking in the chant. Well you must have good hearing in that case as an even more ‘significant percentage’ soon drowned out the offensive chant with the reworked version which relates to Andre Arshavin and that we have no need for Mr Adebayor in no uncertain terms.

Now obviously two wrongs do not make a right, but I do not remember anyone from the press expressing concern when the racist chant was being directed in far more vocal terms at Adebayor all over the country last season. In fact apart from the usual expected protagonists of Chelsea and the team from Middlesex, Man City were one of the worst crowds for singing the chant last season.

They have subsequently re-jigged the song to boast about Adebayor alleged sexual prowess, but then again maybe racial stereotyping is ok, or maybe you did not pick up on that one.

Of course the other point that you made was that Arsenal supporters - and in fact all supporters - just because they pay to go and see their team, do not have a right to complain, or at least to complain in such vociferous terms.

To an extent you are correct of course. However the supporters do not have access to the National Press to put their views over in more lucid terms nor do they have time on a matchday to ponder their argument before letting go of their pent up feelings.

Allied to this I think you need to look at the history of the case in question, and this is something that nearly all club supporters (except maybe Chelsea, Man City, and Real Madrid) will appreciate.

Emmanuel Adebayor was given his chance at The Arsenal by Arsene Wenger and when we signed him it was generally felt that it was another gamble by Arsene. Most Gooners and no doubt the rest of the football supporting public wondered just who this guy was. He came with a bit of a reputation for being a trouble maker as well.

He then had the unenviable task of replacing a legend in Thierry Henry. In his first season he did a remarkable job, of that there can be no question.

He was well on the way, however that summer he spoilt it by touting himself around Europe as though he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. As anyone with an ounce of football knowledge will testify a ’great player’ can only become one after many years of consistent performances.

During that first season after Henry’s departure the Arsenal fans really supported him and sang his name to the rafters. How were they supposed to feel on finding that having taken all the acclaim he then threw it all back and tried to engineer a move?

Once last season had started he had brokered a tripling of his salary. On the evidence of his first season performance some would say that was justifiable, and of course good performance should be rewarded.

At the Emirates Cup at the start last season he did get some stick from supporters, especially when he decided to ‘kiss the badge’ after scoring. Come on we don’t mind the man getting his pay rise but let’s not take the proverbial out of people.

During the season the previous ‘love’ shown to the big man was not forthcoming, however there was very little if any abuse directed towards him. Emmanuel Adebayor is a grown man if he cannot run out onto a pitch and give his all every week because people with some justification are not singing his name every week then I think he is the one who needs to grow up, rather than the supporters.

The one time that people did really get behind him was to counteract that intolerable racist song at various grounds. Again obviously missed by you and your contemporaries and by Adebayor himself.

Moving onto this summer and along come Man City waving the big cheque book about. No offence to City, a great club with a great history, but in reality do you think that it was likely that Mr Adebayor even knew that there were two teams in Manchester when he moved to England?

The only reason he went is because he was offered another monumental pay rise. No Champions League this season and no guarantee of any next season or for seasons after that. Arsenal of course were willing to let him go for a vast profit on their initial investment. Whether that is a good bit of business we will have to wait and see, but one thing is for sure - not only did it assist Arsenal’s bank balance it also improved team morale.

The lack of loyalty shown by Adebayor to Arsene Wenger, Arsenal FC, and Arsenal supporters will be replicated all round the league by various players for ever and a day and maybe we should just accept the way things are. However one of the main characteristics of all supporters is loyalty so how can we ever understand the lack of loyalty shown by these people.