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Sir Matt Busby airbrushed from Liverpool FC history?

Sir Matt Busby’s statue at Old Trafford
Sir Matt Busby’s statue at Old Trafford. Maybe they should erect one at Anfield too. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Once the law is eventually passed to class upskirting as the criminal offence it clearly is (Upskirting bill is blocked by single Tory objection, 16 June), can the powers that be take this opportunity to give it a more appropriate name? Upskirting sounds like something you would purchase by the yard at B&Q, rather than the sexually abusive, insidious crime that it really is.
Maggie D’Araujo
Bristol

• Kenny Dalglish, the first knighted ex-Liverpool player (Report, 9 June; Letters, 13 June)? What about Sir Matt Busby, 122 Liverpool FC appearances between 1936 and 1939, cut short by war? Or does his subsequent Old Trafford move make him a non-person?
Andrew Bailey
Manchester

• “…a woman interpreted using sign language for the people in wheelchairs…” (Giant of physics is buried next to Isaac Newton, 16 June)? As Stephen Hawking might have pointed out: deafness ≠ wheelchair use.
Steve Veness
(Wheelchair user, not especially deaf), Shaftesbury, Dorset

• I’m sure if Dave Collins (Letters, 13 June) could explain what part of an animal a sausage comes from, he’d settle his confusion about vegetarian foods. The shapes are purely delivery devices for whatever tasty or not so tasty contents are inside.
Jules Bennett
Liverpool

• Surely the fact that nothing follows the “cerise oblique” in the Thameslink logo says it all (Letters, 16 June).
Rob Auger
Lympne, Kent

• Clive James, regardless of his ill health, can still make me bark with laughter (Thank you, NHS, Weekend, 17 June).
Val Palmer
South Shields

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