Having simmered for the last couple of months, the Falmer stadium issue has exploded into life.

Like Coronation Street, this one will surely run and run.

Lifelong Albion fan and Falmer resident Tim Cuttress was prepared to go on record on BBC SCR last Saturday and state that the Falmer stadium plan is a dead duck, the university are not interested in working with the Albion and the planned arena will never be built.

Adrian Newnham, a prime mover and shaker in the supporters ranks, thinks the complete opposite and bravely predicts the Albion will be playing at Falmer by August 2003.

Withdean season ticker holder Brian Lisher, 57, readily accepts that he will purchase his first senior citizen Albion season ticket in 2008 with the Albion still playing at their current home!

Three level headed Albion supporters with very differing visions of the future. But who is the footballing Nostradamus and who is talking out of their bobble hat?

I have come in for some criticism about my reporting of the Falmer saga. An anti-Falmer lobbyist said I was Sooty to Martin Perry's Matthew Corbett. It is no secret that my first choice for a stadium site was Beeding cement works. It's probably one of the few things that Barry Lloyd and I ever agreed on. We were obviously not alone because Horsham district council have put it in their local plan as a designated sports stadium.

But apparently for various reasons, the Albion cannot go down that route, so therefore I am prepared to trust Martin Perry and support him in his quest for a new stadium at Falmer.

The problem for Martin is the whole saga has dragged on for so long and there has been so much rumour and misinformation that a number of the rank and file level-headed Albion support, and not just the people who live in Falmer, are beginning to believe that it will never happen.

During their brief but eventful tenure at the club, Knight and Perry have been lucky enough to have individuals pop up at the right time - Reinelt, Adams and Zamora - to carry the club forward. That all-important signature from the university authorities cannot come soon enough.

What price a planning application and promotion all in the same month?

Knocking Manchester United has become a national sport but are they really as bad as everyone says? They have been constantly lambasted for the changing of kits, but closer inspection unfortunately reveals the Albion are not that far behind them.

Including the Admiral kit they wore at Hereford in May 1997, the Albion have now had five home kits within the last four years. When I buy my son the new centenary kit for his sixth birthday in April it will be his fifth different Albion shirt.

Luckily he hasn't cottoned on to away kits yet, counting them since May 1997 would take it up to nine.

I appreciate that a lot of the time circumstances have dictated some of the changes and I certainly don't begrudge putting money in the club's coffers. But five home shirts in four years is almost a theme for an Attila the Stockbroker rant, sorry poem.

As much as it grieves me, it is clearly wrong to slag Manchester United over their kit changing policy when it is apparent that it is part and parcel of football today and in their own way the Albion are every bit as guilty as the fatcats from Old Trafford.