The reforms announced by Sepp Blatter at the Fifa congress are to be welcomed, even if they are somewhat overdue (Report, 1 June). However, the establishment of a new committee on corporate governance, while conceptually good, is actually flawed, as it will be formed of Fifa members only. To be an effective, transparent and credible body, it should be independent of Fifa and comprise external members, who are suitably qualified and experienced, and not affiliated to any other sports governing body. Whether the reforms will be acceptable to Fifa sponsors, who have rightly voiced their concerns, remains to be seen.
Prof Ian Blackshaw
International Sports Law Centre, The Hague
• The fluid style developed by Spurs in the early 1950s was known as push-and-run. Arthur Rowe's side were described by Ralph L Finn as playing "an integrated flowing patternwork of football that sent opponents dizzy trying to counter its precise, deadly advances, its merciless accuracy, its devastating beauty. Lovely it was to watch and suicide to play against". Sounds familiar (Brilliant Barcelona are a high point in football's evolution, 30 May)?
Geoff Dobson
London
• Blatter: n ignorant and arrogant; v (to be) ignorant and arrogant
Howard Burrell
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
• Your critic Brian Logan (At Last, The 1981 Show, Review, 31 May) reared, as he states, on The Young Ones and Saturday Live, needs to widen his cultural referents. The balloon dance originated in the late 60s TV show, At Last! The 1948 Show, from which the Royal Festival Hall show obviously gets its title.
Liz Meerabeau
New Malden, Surrey
• Since when is a wife-beater, kidnapper and property thief a "hero"? (Quick Crossword, 31 May).
Marilyn Chorley Clegg
Carshalton, Surrey
• Surely if 1 June is National Write-to-the-Guardian Day (Letters, 1 June), then the letter should appear on 2 June, not 1 June, as I hope this one will.
Peter Lucas
Brighton