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The communications lecturer ARE Taylor believes old media formats are “presented as the remedy for our digital ailment” (Editorial, 11 June). As a 65-year-old whose journey in music began with a transistor radio, moved on to a radio cassette player and eventually to a record player, I can testify that these old technologies were just as “addictive, unnatural, unhealthy and harmful” as today’s, but in a beautiful, exciting, memory-filled, crackly sort of a way.
Alex Dickie
Edinburgh
• Your list (Sing when you’re winning: the 20 greatest songs about football – ranked!, 4 June) surprised me by not including Fitba’ Crazy, written in the 1880s by James Curran. Sung by Jimmie MacGregor and Robin Hall with a strong Scottish brogue, it was released as a single in the 1960s. Surely it is the oldest football song, and ought to be the Scotland anthem in the World Cup.
Richard Gosnell
Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
