Who is Dr Michael Ray, the new chairman of the Regency Society, talking about when he refers to the "bully boys who try to intimidate anyone who opposes the Falmer Stadium" (The Argus, April 30)?

It can't be the Albion, who simply applied for planning permission to build a home and then made its case at two planning inquiries.

It can't be the supporters, who peacefully and legally lobbied their case with letters and flowers and two good-humoured processions along the seafront.

And it can hardly be the tens of thousands of Sussex people who signed petitions and voted in an official referendum.

Dr Ray's comments suggest he has blithely bought into the anti-stadium group's fairytale propaganda that the issue is a battle between David and Goliath.

It isn't. There are no bully boys. No-get-rich-quick property developers. No intimidation.

Nor, as it happens, any buildings of note at risk.

The only structures to be demolished to build the new stadium are some very tired university blocks thrown up in the Sixties and now nearing the ends of their lives.

There may well be bullying developers happy to destroy the city's wonderful architecture. I wish Dr Ray good luck in fighting them. But he will not get the support he needs if he carries on playing to what he thinks is the gallery with intemperate, inaccurate and unpleasant accusations.

-Peter Near, Small Dole