Next season, no matches should be played in the Premier League. Instead, at the start of the season, each team should put in a financial bid and the team with the highest bid should be awarded the title. The rest of the placings should be allocated according to size of the bids, with the three lowest-bidding teams being relegated.
Roger Greatorex
London
• Gazza’s tears and Cantona’s kung fu kick are often mentioned as the game-changers in popularising English football with the chattering classes and overseas fans. The person who probably did – notice the past tense – most to revolutionise the game in the modern era was, however, Arsène Wenger (Time’s up, Sport, 3 March). (Yes, more even than Sir Alex). Watching him in 2018, though, is like watching Björn Borg with his trusty wooden racket in the era of fibreglass. Wenger’s methods, eloquence and intelligence were like a blood transfusion into the domestic game. He is still perhaps the most thoughtful and insightful commentator on contemporary football. His pioneering ways were, as is the fate of all pioneers, adopted and refined by others. He should really call it a day at the end of the season. I can think of no better person to head and reform the FA.
Will Goble
Rayleigh, Essex
• Please, Guardian, do not follow the trend, common in other media, by highlighting relatively modest achievements in the Premier League era as if football only started in 1992 – “Kane will be the third player to have scored 25+ goals in three consecutive Premier League campaigns” (Sport, 3 March). Jimmy Dunne, a Dubliner playing for Sheffield United in the first division – then the top tier – scored 42 goals in 1929/30, followed by 50 in the next season, 35 in 1931/32 and then 32 goals in 1932/33.
Of further note, Jimmy’s achievements in 1931/32 included scoring in 12 consecutive top-flight league games – a feat not equaled to this day, despite the Premier League efforts of Ruud van Nistelrooy (10) and latterly Jamie Vardy, who scored in 11 consecutive PL games in 2015/16.
Kevin Mcmahon
Birmingham
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