Your report on the Chelsea-Real Madrid match (6 April) refers to Real as “the Spaniards”. The Real starting lineup contained eight nationalities and only one Spaniard – the same number as Chelsea. Real fielded three Brazilians. And the coach, of course, is Italian. For better or worse (better for them, worse for national squads), the big clubs are now denationalised.
Alan Knight
Oxford
• Both Niall and Nuala are wrong (You be the judge: should my brother stop leaving the toilet seat up?, 1 April). The lid should be lowered before flushing, to prevent and contain aerosolisation of the contents. And in that way, both parties have to touch the sanitaryware, which seems only fair in these days of equality.
Edward Collier
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
