Before legislating to permit alcoholic drinks to be consumed in the stands at football (Report, 23 September), Andy Burnham should attend a rugby international. He will find that his view of the match is constantly interrupted by spectators coming and going to replenish their supplies and/or empty their bladders. Be careful what you wish for, Andy.
Robert Lee
Hampton, London
• So a parliamentary committee is to investigate the UK’s performance at the Eurovision song contest (Report, 18 September). I look forward to a committee of MPs explaining why my team, Reading FC, have consistently failed to achieve promotion from League One.
John Lovelock
Bristol
• It’s a great shame that the hedgehog-flavoured crisps of Welshpool are no longer available. They surely would have made it into Ammar Kalia’s top 50 (‘They smell of urinal cakes!’: 100 unusual crisp flavours, ranked – from truly awful to totally scoffable, 23 September)?
Jim Andrew
Loose, Kent
• Tell Ammar Kalia to get serious: with 200 flavours and counting, and the non-crisp snacks in the festival fringe, the Huddersfield international crisp festival runs over nine days.
Michael Fort
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• I hope the judge who said he was “sitting prone in bed” has a better knowledge of the law than he does of English (Judge wrong to hear case from bed while recovering from surgery, court says, 23 September).
Mary Hutty
Bath
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