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
