Reading your article on mix tapes (Letters, 20 July) reminded me of the opening line to a letter I received from a boy in 1960: “Before your feminine instinct tells you to destroy this letter…”. I read no further, putting it straight in the kitchen boiler to burn – and ever since I’ve agonised about what that handwritten four-page letter said.
Margaret Harris
Isleworth, London
• May I hand a rosette to your writer Jonathan Liew? His recent coverage of tennis shows how sportswriting in the right hands can be turned into an art form. Now he has produced another gem, this time on women’s football (The rise of Alessia Russo: a tale of talent, training and a moment seized, 21 July). And I don’t even like football.
Mary Fletcher
London
• Your article (Spot-kick chaos, print edition, 19 July) certainly resonated with many of us in west London still reeling from that brutal night in September 2024 when the Preston-Fulham match ended with 34 penalties being taken and plucky Fulham finally bowing out at 16-15. Bitter tears were shed.
Stephen Pound
London
• The arrest of John Farley in Leeds for displaying a cartoon from Private Eye at a peaceful demo (23 July) indicates that not only is satire dead, it’s also an arrestable offence.
Sean Thompson
Cardiff
• I hope that, when major works begin on the Wimbledon expansion (Report, 21 July), care will be taken to avoid damaging the Wombles’ burrows.
David Prothero
Harlington, Bedfordshire
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