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In the experience of Football Daily, hearing Mark Robins speak is an interaction with an entirely normal, grounded human being, an intelligent, plausible, honest man. In a world of bluster and buzzwords, Robins speaks sensibly, realistically. For Coventry City he was the shy Messiah, leading the club out of its darkest hours, taking them within minutes – inches even – of the promised land. Visit the Coventry City Building Society Stadium and encounter a kind of faded grandeur. The glory days were at Highfield Road. Its replacement, the Ricoh, as it was first known at the start of a torrid history that continues with Mike Ashley as landlord, is modern, glassy, a cashless society with a statue of Jimmy Hill at its entrance. Perhaps one day Robins will be afforded a bronze tribute as the man who took the floodlit dreams of a city trying to revive itself on his shoulders. Without him, the stadium’s sun-bleached sky-blue seats might now be entirely disused.

Chelsea were playing a team called ‘Noah’ last night and yet in its match report Big Website didn’t even have one single water/ark-related pun? The game’s gone …” – Noble Francis.

Ryan Lloyd shows a touching faith in Brazilian stadium security when he says the pig’s head must have been thrown by a Corintiano because away fans are banned from the derby (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). As someone who cowered in the Brook Road Stand watching Southampton at Griffin Park because I couldn’t get an away ticket and whose dad silently supported the Seagulls at Wembley in 1983, surrounded by Manchester United fans, I can assure you, not everyone is always who they seem at the football” – Ben Mimmack.

Seeking to resuscitate the flogged dead horse which is the ‘great headlines’ thread (Football Daily letters passim), I well remember a newspaper headline after the 1993 Milk Cup final, in which Arsenal beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 with a winner scored by Steve Morrow, whose arm was famously then broken when Tony Adams dropped him in the course of the post-match celebrations. One broadsheet ran with ‘Joy today but sorrow to Morrow’, and I couldn’t fathom why they blew the opportunity to go for ‘Joy today but sorrow to Morrow and Wednesday’” – Simon Skinner.

Re: great headlines. I realise the topic is getting a bit long in the tooth – and to be fair I don’t even know if this counts as a proper headline – but certainly as of 8pm on Thursday the Big Website main page was still claiming this to be ‘Breaking news’! Excellent work” – Scott Blair.