A thread for Norman Baker

[Brovion]

All the suggested locations were imperfect. Falmer was the least bad of those that were actually deliverable. Of course we all love it now it's here (except maybe while queuing for the park and ride buses in the rain after losing to West Ham), and it will be even better once the rail service can be upgraded, but somewhere the Albion didn't have to provide all that free public transport to would have been preferable.

That's got nothing to do with Falmer though has it? That was part of the price we had to pay to satisfy those who really didn't want a stadium in Brighton at all. (Regardless of location this was always expressed as "I'm not opposed to a stadium - but not there"). In order to placate that lobby we had to peddle the myth of 'sustainable transport'. Consequently the club would have been saddled with the current transport scheme if we'd built it at Sheepcote, Waterhall or Toads Hole instead.