Perhaps Dick Knight should show Tuesday's Times T2 supplement to the inspector at the forthcoming extra-time inquiry into Falmer.

There it is reported that Liverpool FC will start to build a new stadium in the spring in Stanley Park, the "beautiful Victorian park" which separates Anfield, their present home, from Goodison Park where Everton play. This, despite the planning authority having received a 10,000-signature petition opposing it.

It may be Liverpool has the same planning problems of a seaside city as has Brighton and Hove.

Perhaps, when the inspector has confirmed the alternatives to Falmer are entirely unsuitable, he may suggest the Albion should merely have moved from the Goldstone - across Old Shoreham Road - and developed Hove Park.

-Percy Williams, Seaford