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Sports letters: Upright citizens

John Bateman
Friday 14 February 1997 00:02 GMT
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Sir: Now that linesmen are habitually referred to as "Referees' Assistants", may I be the first to propose formally that the ridiculously old-fashioned word "goalpost" is replaced by the more forward-thinking term "Crossbar's Assistant"?

JOHN BATEMAN

Worthing, West Sussex

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