Councillor Bodfish's apparent bolt from the blue over Falmer has put the cat among the pigeons, or should that be Seagulls?

The local labour leader's opposition to the proposed stadium is well documented but whether or not that will have any bearing on next week's local plan vote remains to be seen.

One thing is for sure, he is a very brave man making this sort of stand in the current pro Albion climate.

A bit like Alan Klein, the man who turned down The Beatles, will Mr Bodfish be forever remembered in Brighton and Hove's history as the man who blew out the Albion?

So Celtic and Rangers are being lined up to join the English Premiership. Quite an exciting prospect if you hail from north of the border but it certainly throws up a lot of questions, which might in turn provide some interesting answers.

The first is the old chestnut of the British national team. I can't see any reason why if the Glasgow giants do come down and mix it with our big boys the situation having to change. Scottish league football will obviously have to change, possibly going part time, but surely that shouldn't affect the four home nations entering FIFA and UEFA competitions individually.

All of the Welsh professional clubs play in the English leagues but Wales have still been allowed to consistently fail miserably on an international level. I cannot see why Scotland shouldn't be allowed to continue qualifying for World Cup finals, get humiliated by minnows at the group stage, arriving home before their postcards.

The real problem is how the Tartan giants can be entered into the top flight without causing a mini riot.

A 20-team Premiership is here to stay, so therefore to get them into the League two extra teams would have to be relegated the previous season. For this to happen it will have to be ratified at the League AGM. Can anyone see, with perhaps the exception of the Big Six, the existing Premiership clubs voting for such a proposal. It's just like turkeys voting for Christmas.

The bottom five this year could possibly include the likes of Spurs, Villa or Everton, I can really see them all welcoming five team relegation with open arms.

The only way I see it possibly happening is if the League, perhaps assisted by the Sky mega millions, make it so financially viable for the additional teams to get relegated, that they take it on the chin, pocket the cash and pray that promotion is not that far away. But the real question is, how would the two Scottish sides fair in a League that provides more than six competitive games a season?

On holiday this summer I encountered an unusual situation. I met up with the rarest of all breeds, a rational Scotsman. My holiday companion hailed from Larkhall near Glasgow and had Blue and White pumping through his veins. (For the uninitiated in football terms, when it comes to finding a rational Scotsman it's like Rod Steward celebrating a silver wedding anniversary).

But over a couple of San Miguels by the pool one afternoon he nearly knocked me off my sunbed by admitting that he thought at present if his beloved Rangers played in England they would struggle to get into the top 12 and might have a fight against relegation. He claimed his club had turned into a haven for the highly paid has-beens and never-will be's of European football.

It might be all right Celtic and Rangers coming down to England to play, but what if one of them got relegated to the Nationwide? All well and good playing Man Utd, Liverpool, Leeds or Arsenal but no Old Firm derby? Could the soccer mad public of Glasgow survive? I doubt it!