The wit and wordplay of the late Guardian football correspondent is remembered fondly by Graham Russell, Robert Drake, Max Bell and Kevin Burke
Thank you for your double-page spread celebrating some of the wonderful journalism of David Lacey (Report, 17 November). One day in the late 1960s, while at university in London, I was reading the Daily Telegraph sports section in the university refectory. A fellow student put the Guardian down in front of me, open at one of David’s match reports. He told me to read it and assured me that, having read it, I would only buy the Guardian in future. Fifty-four years later, I’m still buying the Guardian every day.
Graham Russell
Market Drayton, Shropshire
• How very sad to hear the news that the wonderful David Lacey has died. His writing was always the first I would turn to in the sports section. Richard Williams (David Lacey never wasted words – he used them to enrich the reader, 17 November) was spot-on. My favourite was a description of the efforts of Trevor Steven as “Stakhanovite”. I had to look it up, but have used it ever since.
Robert Drake
Oxford
