I am 80. More than 65 years ago my two mates and I used to walk from just below the Race Hill in Bear Road to the Goldstone ground in Hove to support our Albion.

We were a reasonable third division side in those days and now, 65 years on, we are still a third division side (ie below the Premier, Championship and First Division).

I have been to see the new stadium at Falmer. It’s enormous. My heart goes out to the residents of that beautiful, peaceful, historic village.

Football stadiums we accept as a necessity but to incorporate pop concerts with all the noise, traffic and drunken hooliganism potentially going on into the early hours is not acceptable by any standards.

Let’s hope Brighton police will be keeping a close eye on future engagements for, as we all know, money rules everything.

DR Durrant
Rustic Road, Peacehaven