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| Why has football become a spitfest? | Why has football become a spitfest? |
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| On football past and present (Letters, 7 March), one particularly unpleasant feature of today’s game is the compulsive spitting. Watching Match of the Day now is to observe a spitfest. Footballers never used to spit all the time. The players of other sports (like rugby) don’t do it. Nor do the women players. So when, and why, did football become a spittle competition?Tony WrightBirmingham | On football past and present (Letters, 7 March), one particularly unpleasant feature of today’s game is the compulsive spitting. Watching Match of the Day now is to observe a spitfest. Footballers never used to spit all the time. The players of other sports (like rugby) don’t do it. Nor do the women players. So when, and why, did football become a spittle competition?Tony WrightBirmingham |
| • Lorenzo Marsili writes that the flat tax would benefit “the richest households” in Italy (Letters, 6 March). This is unlikely. Working in Rome for 14 years taught me that the rich pay no tax, so 10% is better than nothing.Dr John DohertyVienna, Austria | • Lorenzo Marsili writes that the flat tax would benefit “the richest households” in Italy (Letters, 6 March). This is unlikely. Working in Rome for 14 years taught me that the rich pay no tax, so 10% is better than nothing.Dr John DohertyVienna, Austria |
| • Whether or not the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal (Report, 7 March) was sanctioned by Russia, it should be noted that extrajudicial targeted killing by drone on foreign soil is common particularly by the US, but also by the UK.Ted WatsonBrighton | • Whether or not the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal (Report, 7 March) was sanctioned by Russia, it should be noted that extrajudicial targeted killing by drone on foreign soil is common particularly by the US, but also by the UK.Ted WatsonBrighton |
| • When I was a student nurse we learned the mnemonic “On Old Olympus’ Towering Top A Fin And German Viewed Some Hops” (Letters, 7 March). Helpful for remembering the cranial nerves – except that there are so many repeated letters that I couldn’t sort out my olfactory from my oculomotor.Joan FriendOldham | • When I was a student nurse we learned the mnemonic “On Old Olympus’ Towering Top A Fin And German Viewed Some Hops” (Letters, 7 March). Helpful for remembering the cranial nerves – except that there are so many repeated letters that I couldn’t sort out my olfactory from my oculomotor.Joan FriendOldham |
| • Shock! Horror! Why no mention of the pie shop in Lochinver on the west coast of Scotland (More than a filling, G2, 7 March)? And I’m from Wigan.Barbara Gray Coldstream, Berwickshire | • Shock! Horror! Why no mention of the pie shop in Lochinver on the west coast of Scotland (More than a filling, G2, 7 March)? And I’m from Wigan.Barbara Gray Coldstream, Berwickshire |
| • Re “thaw damages mains” (Report, 7 March), it is the freeze that damages mains; the thaw reveals it.Bob GoughWalton-on-Thames, Surrey | • Re “thaw damages mains” (Report, 7 March), it is the freeze that damages mains; the thaw reveals it.Bob GoughWalton-on-Thames, Surrey |
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