WITH reference to your report ‘No football is allowed here’ (Tuesday’s Oxford Mail), I am one of the parents pictured and I feel that our point wasn’t put across properly.

We are fighting to get our communal garden back, which we have to pay a service charge for.

Yes, I can understand that a ball being kicked and bounced against a wall is very annoying to some but hello – your kids did the same when they were younger. None of this would have happened if a safe, fenced-off area hadn’t been taken away from our children.

STEFFANIE ANDERSON, Furlong Close, Blackbird Leys, Oxford