I recommend the immediate launch of a new World Cup competition, the Hindsight Trophy. Given the vast number of England TV experts and fans who know afterwards what should have happened, the trophy should be ours permanently.
Jim Traynor
New Brighton, Merseyside
• The haywain in Constable’s famous painting is not standing in “Flatford mill pond” (The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age, 10 July). The millpond is the water upstream of a mill which is held back and then released to drive the mill wheel. It is deep and still, hence “calm as a millpond”. The haywain is standing in the shallow mill pool, downstream from the mill.
David Wilkinson
Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire
