Luton Town are runaway champions in the Tipping league

luton town are runaway champions in the tipping league

Edward Tipping’s table puts Luton Town way out in front and Manchester City second from bottom. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty

Manchester City’s “historic” fourth title (19 May) is perhaps not so surprising since they are the richest club; runners-up Arsenal are the second-richest, and the bottom club, Sheffield United, the second-poorest. A league that I created, by calculating points won per club value in billions of euros, puts Luton Town way out in front (208 points per billion) and Manchester City second from bottom (72 points per billion). Hats off to Luton!

Edward Tipping

Staveley, Cumbria

• I knew someone would mention nominative determinism after I wrote a letter about population. Mike Hine (Letters, 20 May) might like to know that until I retired I was Mr Plenty the Quantity Surveyor. In future, perhaps I should use my middle name, as below.

R Converwell Plenty

Stroud, Gloucestershire

• As a student in Dundee in the 1960s, I asked at a shop for spring onions and was told “It’s not spring yet” (Letters, 21 May).

Dr Nigel Fairweather

Brixham, Devon

• When my boyfriend went into a chemist in Bishop’s Stortford in 1977 for a treatment for crabs, he was told, nose-in-the-air, that this was an urban complaint. Hackney, probably.

Louise Foxcroft

London

• Adrian Chiles (23 May) can’t find a good definition for “populist”. I can’t discover one for “socially conservative”. Can anyone help?

Jane Lawson

London

• A populist is someone who thinks that there is always an easy answer to a difficult question.

David Upton

Middlesbrough

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