All the soccer fans I know seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time going misty-eyed about Clogger Smith's great goal in Nineteen Hundred and Frozen to Death.

Or they are always challenging each other with tricky questions about Dixie Dean and long ago Cup Finals.

Still, without their devotion who would keep sacred the heroic moments of the beautiful game? So it's a pity we scored an own goal last Thursday in a story about Brighton and Hove Albion supporters being urged to pass on their memories of bygone days in an oral history project.

We were wrong with some facts about a scheme being organised by the club's Collectors and Historians Society and Brighton Museum. Society spokesman John Whitehead wants me to make it clear they are interested in all supporters' memories, not just from the Fifties.

And we must concede a corner on another point. Interviews will be recorded in contributors' homes in the next couple of months and not at an Albion exhibition at Hove Museum in September.

John would like to hear from anyone with memories to share, so drop him a line at 45, Stonehurst Road, Worthing.

Right, now from footie to fitness. An advertising feature in Tuesday's Argus gave you the gen about the Leisure Club at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, getting a £500,000 refit.

The new-look club, which has a thriving local membership, can offer you a European spa-style sauna, galvanic electrolysis, sclerotherapy and other delights. What we didn't tell you, because of a slip-up here, was that the finishing touch at the club is a lounge area where visitors can relax with a drink or a light snack after their exertions or just socialise with friends. To find out more, ring the Grand on 01273 224323.

Our Budget round-up on Wednesday was an eye-opener, said Gerald Simmonds, from Shoreham. In early editions we said a self-employed man spending £3,000 a year on petrol would be £60 a week worse off. Oops, that should have been 60p, a mistake we soon corrected. He also challenged whether a pensioner couple would pay tax on their combined income of £7,000 but they did tell us they each pay £22 a month.

And we made Gerald smile when we said a student spending £28 a week on drink had escaped most of the tax hikes because of his healthy lifestyle. Said Gerald: "Spending £28 a week on booze ought to be a serious cause for concerns over health. Obviously, not all students are on the breadline."

I've been fielding readers' complaints for years but I am still amazed at what gets people going. Take this week's e-mail from Mari Booker. She wanted to know how in Monday's story about the richest in the land we could put a picture of Sir Paul McCartney, her teenage idol, next to one of notorious landlord and tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraten.

Well, Mari, they both featured in the Sunday Times Rich List, Macca in 41st place with £550 million and Hoogy at 142nd with £200 million. While you would have preferred a more felicitous pairing, they probably have the highest profiles of the handful of Sussex names on the list, admittedly for different reasons.

Everyone will have their heroes and villains in that totting-up of moneybags but seeing them side by side neatly reflects the way the world of the fabulously wealthy is, don't you think?

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