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Should you ever read comments below assorted lines or on social media abominations, there’s a growing trend of readers asking to stop hearing about Manchester United. No longer a big club, they say. Rubbish at football, they say, quite reasonably. Many of them may be actual United fans. But the fall of a giant will always be a story. Beyond wars, what story from the 20th century was bigger than the sinking of the Titanic? So on Football Daily rolls, because frankly, United are giving this stuff away. But not free lunches to staff. Certainly not rolls, fruit only.

Presumably Mike Glogower (yesterday’s Footballl Daily letters) had the famous French comic album series Asterix the Gaul in mind when declaring Manchester City to be ‘Atrocius’, since he sounds like a likely ally of main antagonist Julius Caesar. There is however a football connection since the story is that, when Caesar returned from a campaign over the Alps and falsely claimed to have killed 20,000 Gauls, Asterix asserted that he had fact-checked the claim and that the true figure was only 10,000. Caesar however countered: ‘You are forgetting, Asterix, that, in Europe, away Gauls count double!’” – Adrian Irving.

Tottenham Hotspur want to be known as ‘Tottenham Hotspur’, eh (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition)? That’s not going to be hard for long-time readers of this tea-timely email. For example, I’ve been referring to Noble Francis as ‘Noble Francis’ – not ‘Noble’, not ‘Francis’ – from the first time I read a Noble Francis letter from Noble Francis” – Mike Wilner.

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