Bruised and battered as we are by the relentless onslaught of social media – Faceblart, Instagrowl, TickyTacky and all the rest of it – the humble letter, published in the print edition of a sports paper, is a rare and precious gift from the gods, especially when it makes you think.
So hats off to Martin Brooks, whose strongly-worded take on the Red Roses’ recent defeats at the hands and boots of the Canadians appeared in these pages a week ago.

The fact that your columnist disagrees profoundly with the general thrust of his argument – that England have been too generous by half in giving so...