I WAS sad to read in the Oxford Mail that residents around Donnington recreation ground are unhappy about the state of their football pitch after the fairground visit. We on the Horspath Road estate will be in the same boat by Monday, when the fair moves on from our recreation ground.

I would have thought fairground folk would have known that the parks and leisure areas have had a lot more than the usual amount of rain recently, so the ground is too wet to take an invasion of heavy vehicles. As we tax payers have to pay for the upkeep for these leisure areas, I hope they will leave them as they found them.

At least litter and dog poo can be picked up – that’s easy, but I bet it will be six months before the grass is back to normal.

I know we are always moaning that we don’t get anything done on this estate but this is the extreme.

MARY STIFF, Corunna Crescent, Cowley