A group of Greek historians writes concerning our article “Britain’s Dirty Secret” (Observer Magazine, 30 Nov, page 24). It was reported that British troops opened fire on the Greek demonstrators from the Grande Bretagne hotel in Athens on 3 December 1944. The hotel was British military headquarters, but the fire from it could also have come from Greek police. In the same story, we said that the Greek anti-Nazi resistance, ELAS/EAM, agreed not to oppose the landing of British troops in May 1944. The historians point out that the agreement was formalised at Caserta in September.
“You are the Ref” (Sport, last week, page 16) said that after two players from a team already reduced to eight have been dismissed for fighting during a penalty shootout, the game should be abandoned. Association Football rules state the opposite: “The referee must not abandon the match if a team is reduced to fewer than seven players during the taking of kicks from the penalty mark.”
Apologies to Bridport, Dorset, for describing it as a hamlet in our piece on a new TV series of Broadchurch (“Tennant’s extra”, Magazine, last week, page 12). It has a population of about 14,000.
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