In reply to David Pritchard (Letters, March 6) I would like to give readers two stark choices.

It is 6.30pm on Tuesday November 5, 2008 (bonfire night). You step off the train at Falmer and make your way to the Community Stadium at Village Way North.

You pick up the kids from the education centre in the main stand and grab a bite to eat.

This is the game that you have all been waiting for - the Albion against Manchester United, Van Nistelrooy, Scholes, Ronaldo.

You look at the anticipation on the kids' faces and you can smell the community pride.

Alternately, if Mr Prescott goes against his own policy and favours Nimbyism, you could double park around Falmer pond, escape the thunderous roar of the A27 and travel by train for one stop.

Then you could join a baying mob of 50,000 and watch in horror as an effigy of an 80-year-old man is hurled onto a burning pyre.

Let's face it, despite its pretensions, sectarianism still has an unsavoury image.

You then wait several hours to board a train westbound and, amid scenes of public urination, the mob turns ugly.

Some of the mob also alights at Falmer. Cue more public urination as they make their way through the A27 subway and to bed.

Your throats burn as you pass the belching incinerator at Village Way North.

You look at the fear in your kids' eyes and you can smell the shame.

I know what I would rather do on a Tuesday evening.

What about you, Mr Pritchard?

Simon Stubbs

-Mile Oak Road, Southwick