While popular opinion would have it that the save that Gordon Banks made at the 1970 World Cup was the greatest ever (Pelé leads tributes to ‘a goalkeeper with magic’, 13 February), I understand Banks himself said the best save of his career was while playing for Leicester City in the fourth round of the FA Cup against Birmingham City in February 1966. Being right in line behind the goal, I would fully concur with that.
V Mark Phillips
Ambleside, Cumbria
• What a difference 50 years makes to sport photography! Compare and contrast the action shot of Gordon Banks with the posed shot of a celebrating Kylian Mbappé (Back page, 13 February).
Michael Robinson
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
• How much would Sir Lynton Crosby charge to get Chris Grayling elected PM (Tories’ strategist in £5.5m offer to get Qatar’s World Cup cancelled, 11 February)?
Owen Rossan
London
• Fourteen pages of “The ultimate guide to sleep” (Supplement, 9 February), but not a word about the major problem that affects so many elderly men: sleep disruption by the need for frequent visits to the bathroom. The best mattress in the world, and the most soothing Google app, do nothing to solve this problem.
Frank Jackson
Harlow, Essex
• If the Brazilian “family values” minister is right and the Dutch (surely the tallest people in Europe) really are “taught to masturbate from the age of seven months”, then so much for it stunting your growth (Strongmen want to control our bodies, 13 February). Though I don’t have the figures for long-term eyesight outcomes in the Netherlands.
Mike Hine
Kingston on Thames, London
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