Here we go again - another closed football season, another faltering start to the proposed new football stadium and another excuse as to why it cannot be built.

Would it be possible to find in advance reasons why, for the next three closed football seasons, we will not get our new stadium?

Brighton University's negative stance, for whatever reason, beggars belief when one sees all the new construction - including a private fitness centre - carried out at this Falmer site, which looks like a small town built over the years without opposition on the South Downs.

Brighton and Hove being awarded city status is beginning to look a bit sick when vital decisions to build a stadium to match Southampton's second stadium - to open in August 2001 - cannot be made.

Perhaps Southampton is right when it claims to be the main city in the south rather than Brighton and Hove.

-James Greed, Wheatfield Way, Brighton