I am forever amazed at the nuisance and aggravation a football team can cause to the inhabitants of our town - sorry, city.

First of all they took away the facilities of Withdean stadium on all the home game days. Then we lost half our park-and-ride parking spaces.

Then came the plan to put a new stadium within less than half a mile from a small, quiet village, with all the noise it creates - don't tell me they won't hear the crowds, we can hear them here in Patcham, more than a mile away - and heavy traffic along Falmer Road, which gets very busy at weekends.

And now, to add insult to injury, the management wants to close off part of Carden Avenue on match days to put cars in, which means all the traffic from Old Boat Corner into Carden Avenue will have to travel along Crowhurst Road with all the shoppers, cars, buses and large lorries unloading.

It's really amazing how selfish the management of a small football team can be and how much trouble they have caused the general public.

Why should we have to put up with all this just for a game that only the minority of the city is interested in?

-B Johnson, Carden Avenue, Brighton