I thoroughly enjoyed Donald McRae’s informative interview (Sport, 25 February) with Daley Thompson – double Olympic decathlon champion, unbeaten in the event for nine years, world record holder on four occasions and still the holder of the British record set in 1984. But McRae’s description of him as “arguably the greatest British athlete in history” contains a superfluous adverb.
Beverley Mason
Cardiff
• If it is so harmful then deliberate heading should be penalised in the same way as deliberate handball (Under-12s banned from heading footballs but not during matches, 25 February). Players would soon learn alternative ways of controlling the ball.
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• For 40 happy years, we have honoured our unwritten marriage contract. Every January my wife presents me with jars of homemade marmalade. Each summer I repay her with bouquets of homegrown sweet peas from our garden.
William Alexander
Sevenoaks, Kent
• My delight at the iconoclasm and unfettered imagination of Steve Bell’s cartoon (26 February) was hugely enhanced by noticing it was his 69th birthday. Long may he stay unaffected by the responsibility and maturity that limits many people of our age.
Christine Oram
Hove, East Sussex
• In Norfolk it is said that the current four-year crop rotation (Letters, 27 February) is oilseed rape, oilseed rape, oilseed rape, world cruise.
Tony Meacock
Norwich
• Steer calmer? Keir Starmer.
William Hill
Eastleigh, Hampshire
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