John McCormick writes: it’s good to see Pete Sixsmith keeping up to date with education matters; that GCSEs are now graded 1-9 had passed me by. I bet M Salut knew, too, he might even have a maths grade to be proud of.
Pete also keeps up to date with football, of course, and although his Premier League season may be over he made his way to the Stadium of Light to join an impressive 18,000 others in watching the youth team take on a group of players who know what it’s like to play week in, week out, in a thoroughly competitive and professional setting.