If only we had players like Jackie

research that didn’t support its agenda on manmade global warming.

You have to go back 100 years to find a period when hurricanes were more frequent than today and even further back to find equally intense storms as hurricane Irma.

The fact is we’ve been having hurricanes since the dawn of time and man has had no effect on the frequency or intensity of them.

However this doesn’t fit into the warmists’ pet theory.

JOHN W GRAY, Washington LOOKING at the picture on the nostalgia page of empty terraces at a Newcastle United reserve match in 1974 brought back a memory of a reserve match which took place in either the late 1940s or early 50s.

Wor Jackie was having a run out in the reserves to test his fitness after recovering from an injury.

More than 40,000 supporters turned out, a sign of Jackie’s pulling power. My abiding AS graceful as a swan, That sails upon a lake, Her beauty overcomes, It leaves me in her wake, And if she should forsake, If ever I awake to find her gone, It’s not my arm she’ll break, She’ll take the golden sunset and the dawn... For she’s the only one, My ballerina queen, A painting by Saint-Saens, Love’s everlasting dream. I see her all in white, As fair of face and hair of Whitby jet, She shields me from the night, She takes me to a place where we forget