I refer to your report M'sia to build 'RM490 mil' sports academy in UK .

This project is a waste of taxpayers' money. Pak Lah, please don't gamble with the people's money. Dr Mahathir Mohamad did sometimes gamble, and some projects bore fruit while many others failed.

I cannot see how a small developing country with 25 million people can embark on such extravagant project as a sports academy on foreign soil .The beneficiaries would be the elites associated with the politicians, I'm sure.

Let us first focus on bringing economic development and raising the living standard of the masses instead looking for glory in the sports arena which, really, is not going feed the poor in the kampungs.

Pak Lah, stop this project or end up being blamed along with Dr M for excesses. Look at other countries of our size and per capita income which were doing reasonably well in sports but surprisingly without an expensive sport academy in another country.

Learn from them. I find the 'acclimatisation' justification ludicrous. I don't know how 'acclimatisation' in a temperate country is going to help our sports to bring glory to us. Is the gamble worth it?