Still game: the joys of walking football

Phil Ball’s article on the first walking football World Nations Cup (31 August) showed how this phenomenon of over-50s remaining active can, under the auspices of English football clubs’ community trusts, foster a unique health-promoting camaraderie in later years. I recently retired (again) after a “playing career” of more than 70 years and am missing the friendship and banter.
Graham Kelly
Chief executive, Football Association, 1988-98

• Anyone who thinks actors need to get naked to deliver sex scenes needs to watch Delmer Daves’s 1957 film 3.10 to Yuma (Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema, 1 September). Glenn Ford and Felicia Farr deliver three of the most erotic scenes in cinema while fully clothed and out of the bedroom throughout.
Sue Ball
Brighton

• Some buddleias may be teeming with peacocks (A vintage butterfly summer in Britain – what’s going on?, 31 August), but I have been recording butterflies for Butterfly Conservation since 2011, and this has been the worst year yet for me.
Copland Smith
Manchester

• Oh yes, how I love and hang on to my late husband’s walking stick (Letters, 1 September)! Yesterday I was able to hook down a beautiful rose in the garden that was just out of reach with Willie’s precious stick.
Jude McGowan
London

• How long before the government sets up a “VIP lane” for its cronies to supply schools hit with temporary buildings (Jeremy Hunt under fire after Treasury says no new cash to fix Raac in schools, 3 September)?
Tim Martin
Uley, Gloucestershire

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