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Manchester City and the Premier League are both claiming victory – of course – after the champions challenged its rules on commercial deals.

The endless letters about letters (Football Daily letters passim) are getting out of hand. I think we need to understand that we’re in a process and that the prizeless letters of the week and the selection of them can only really be judged at the end of the internet. The letter writing and judging processes need time, and no doubt most people involved are knacked. Etc, etc” – Dean Haigh.

I was enjoying the Belfast derby this weekend, except for the sneaking tendency to refer to it as the ‘Bel Clasico’. Please stop. Not everything has to be a pun on ‘El Clásico’. We’ll be calling the Manchester derby the ‘Arndale Clasico’ next, though given one team is full of expensive but shonky tat and the other simply bought everything, this might be appropriate” – Jon Millard.

Allow me to join the 1,057 pedants in pointing out that ‘making [food item]’ (Friday’s letters) is the typical American expression for preparing food to be eaten. The real question of interest here is why Karim Adeyemi, a German footballer who has never (to my knowledge) lived across the pond, is being taught American culinary idioms in English lessons. Almost as if they think Americans are the better cooks” – Harriet Osborn.

An interesting piece on Arsenal’s Paul Davis (Friday’s Still Want More, full email edition). I never realised Bobby Robson had called up the gifted midfielder, because I knew he had no England caps. I worked in Lloyd’s of London and regularly spoke to Robson’s son about who should be in or out of the squad. For several years, I pleaded a case for Davis, only to be told that Robson senior thought he was too slow. I said ‘he’s like Tigana of France’. To no avail, apparently he wasn’t rated. I still remember Davis well and regardless, he should have played for England” – Colin Grant.

I was going to write a disparaging letter about Football Daily having never met my needs so couldn’t possibly lose sight of them, but then I realised I have never hit ‘unsubscribe’ so you must be doing something right. Instead, I’ll thank you for reminding me about A Certain Trigger and the great penultimate song (Friday’s last line, full email edition), and for the hilarious image of Football Daily attempting to be an acrobat” – Alec Johns.

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