My daughter and I were two of the 200 or so people to travel to Selhurst Park on Saturday to watch Brighton play Wimbledon with no knowledge the match had been made all-ticket.

We had arrived in plenty of time, as had most of these people, who were from all points in the South East and mainly families.

It was obvious there were no troublemakers but the police seemed to think, despite the fact most of us were wearing Albion shirts, we were Crystal Palace in disguise, particularly the eight and ten-year-old children.

Clearly, if they had been allowed into the ground, they would have wreaked havoc.

About ten minutes after kick-off, with the group still hopeful common sense would prevail, the police - including four mounted police and about four vanloads of police officers - started to become abusive, threatening to arrest us if we did not move on.

We suggested, as we were wearing Albion shirts and there was a large proportion of young children, it would be safer to be in the ground rather than disperse into the area.

The police didn't care about this and kept stating it was the Albion's fault for not informing us the game was all-ticket.

We then spoke to the chief of security at Selhurst Park, who blamed the police for being inflexible. Undaunted, some of us made our way to the executive area, where we were met by Sussex Police officers.

We tried to get word to Dick Knight, the chairman, assuming he wouldn't be too pleased about the situation but we understand he declined to speak to us.

The Sussex Police officers were very sympathetic but were unable to help.

So, if you hear any stories in the Press about football clubs being hard up, don't believe a word of it because Wimbledon could obviously afford to lose £3,000 or £4,000 of gate money.

As for the Albion, when was the decision made to make the match all-ticket? Was it six o'clock on Friday evening, as suggested, or was it when the fixture list came out weeks ago, as stated by the abusive Metropolitan Police?

-D L Spalding, Chichester Drive East, Saltdean