WELL done to the Albion's Tony Bloom and Paul Barber for roundly condemning the "dirty dozen" football clubs who are planning to set up a super league of their own and thank you to the Argus for giving this story the prominence it deserves.

This type of corporate greed cannot be allowed to win the day and it was great to see all football clubs in Sussex, including the non-league ones, join together in mutual disgust.

What these big business, fat cats just don't get is the heritage, history and civic pride behind football clubs in this country. I was eight years old when my uncle George took me to the Goldstone ground for my first Albion game, standing on a fruit crate at the front of the Chicken run.

Years later, I remember the awe on my daughter and son's faces when they also finally got to go to their first game.

The Albion is also a shining example of one of many clubs who have great community schemes that touch the lives of thousands of local people. What would the money men make of this?

Football is more than just a "product" to be bought and sold on the stock exchange. It excites, depresses, enthuses and enthrals in equal measure and the super league idea should be stopped in its tracks and the clubs involved left in no doubt that our national game isn't some kind of franchise to be sold off on the open market.

Of course, football is a business and clubs need to be run efficiently but the Albion have got the balance right and will always put the fans first. That's what football is all about.

Councillor Peter Atkinson

North Portslade