With the spectre of global warming on us, most of us are doing without, or choosing alternatives less harmful to the environment – less meat eating, less car usage, less flying, and so on. In the midst of this, the FA chose to hold a game between two teams from the north-west of the UK in London (Report, 18 April). Thus tens of thousands of longer and completely needless journeys were generated. Another case of the tin ear of football?
DG Owen
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
• Re a new Scottish anthem (Letters, 15 April), the last two lines of A Man’s a Man For A’ That – That man to man, the world o’er / Shall brothers be – would not have resonated with my parents during my boyhood. They wished that brothers could be as friendly to each other as they could to strangers. The prayer of all too many couples with more than one son is, I suspect, that everyone learn to be less brotherly to each other.
Charles E L Gilman
Mitcham, Surrey
• A few years ago, when I was a governor at a local northern secondary school, a pupil was included in the list of “gifted and talented” students because of his success at breeding and showing his ferrets (Letters, 15 April). A wonderful example of inclusion.
Janet Mansfield
Aspatria, Cumbria
• Tim Lane (Letters, 14 April) is to be commended for remembering Willie Eckerslike in Coronation Street. Does anyone remember Flamin’ Nora – frequently invoked but never seen?
John White
Seaford, East Sussex
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