I have often wondered why we Liverpool supporters don’t join with those of Manchester to celebrate the great Matt Busby (Report, Sport, 6 September) whose five seasons at Anfield (1936-41) are too easily forgotten. I remember his playing style as if it were yesterday – distinctively hunched over the ball, using his instep to pass with accuracy and elegance. The most cultured footballer I’ve ever seen.
Bob Lamb
Chester
• Anyone unconvinced by Nicholas Kenyon’s defence of the Last Night of the Proms (Raising a flag, G2, 7 September) should read Hannah French’s interesting article on Parry’s Jerusalem in the Proms Official Guide. She notes the piece was used, to Parry’s delight, by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.
Tom Frost
London
• The Last Night of the Proms is truly international. In Esbjerg the annual festival week ends with Land of Hope and Glory sung in Danish to the enthusiastic waving of Danish flags; in Hamburg Anglophile Germans sing it lustily in English at their annual open-air Proms concert.
John Wrench
Esbjerg, Denmark
• It seems that the designers of the Philae lander were not followers of Robot Wars, as otherwise they would have fitted it with a self-righting mechanism (Where’s Philae? Lost probe finally spotted on comet’s face, 6 September).
Peter Eiseman-Renyard
London
• Ah yes, but remember, the man who was derided for attending a funeral in “brahn boots” (Letters, 6 September) did so because he’d given his black boots to a poor chap who had no boots at all.
Dan Zerdin
London
• In 1971 I wore my dark mulberry suit and burgundy shoes for an interview at the Bank of London and South America. At the end, one of the panel said, quietly, “Great threads, man.” I didn’t get the job.
Peter Hutchinson
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
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