Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
Well, 5 years and millions of pounds later, we still don't know where our new home will be. The club consulted widely. There was even a referendum; the Council backed the bid, the best legal minds in Sussex were put on the case and yet it seems that our thinking and that of the national planners from the ODPM are polls apart. As a process it' stinks. Unbelievably expensive, bureaucratic, cumbersome and painfully , painfully slow. Surely there's a better, faster, more efficient way to go about the planning for a new football stadium. Afterall we're not talking about building a space station.
It does seem that in the UK, it's beyond the wit of man to deal effectively with infrastructural matters. Be they a new tube line, x rail, planning a shopping centre or doing up your house; our planning laws are an unintelligable mess which no other country in the world would put up with. They are simply a disgrace which unncessarily complicate our lives - whether we want to watch a football match or put another shower in at home. They need to overhauled.
I love the Albion. I have supported them for 32 years. I don't expect the club to win the European Cup, sorry, the Champions League or field a glittering array of international stars but I do want to see my team play at a stadium in which we can feel proud.
So for f***'s sake, please can the ODPM, Brighton Council and the Club sit down, like grown ups, and sort out a site. Surely that's not too much to ask?
It does seem that in the UK, it's beyond the wit of man to deal effectively with infrastructural matters. Be they a new tube line, x rail, planning a shopping centre or doing up your house; our planning laws are an unintelligable mess which no other country in the world would put up with. They are simply a disgrace which unncessarily complicate our lives - whether we want to watch a football match or put another shower in at home. They need to overhauled.
I love the Albion. I have supported them for 32 years. I don't expect the club to win the European Cup, sorry, the Champions League or field a glittering array of international stars but I do want to see my team play at a stadium in which we can feel proud.
So for f***'s sake, please can the ODPM, Brighton Council and the Club sit down, like grown ups, and sort out a site. Surely that's not too much to ask?