A recent caller to my Southern Counties Radio phone-in said he didn't care if Albion were relegated this season, so long as Falmer got the green light.

Well, in my view that is cobblers and not of the Northampton variety. Just look at what has happened to Huddersfield Town.

Granted, the McAlpine Stadium is an amazing construction, seating 25,000 spectators. But if you haven't got a decent team to play in it or a financially viable football club to operate out of it, what's the point?

I'm not suggesting Albion will be in Falmer, under administration and on the verge of getting relegated to Division Three but one cautionary glance up the M1 indicates all that glitters is not gold.

Albion's long-term future depends on Falmer going through but no one must neglect the present.

In the short term, they have two priorities - staying in Division One and making sure Steve Coppell is still in the home dugout come August.

Anything else can wait until after the final whistle has been blown at Grimsby on May 4.

I'm sure Dick Knight and especially Martin Perry will have noted what has gone on in Yorkshire and lessons will have been learnt.

As jokers go, my would-be hoaxer on the SCR phone-in - Fred from Findon - was right up there with Jeremy Beadle in the irritation stakes.

He claimed to have picked up Everton pair Bill Kenwright and David Moyes at Gatwick and taken them to a secret meeting with Messrs Knight and Zamora.

But there was nothing funny about what appeared in a recent Albion programme. I came across it in the Millwall edition, dated February 22, last Saturday morning in the Hart household's only quiet room.

On the club news page, readers were informed about the sad death of Cyril Wall, a long-time Albion season ticket holder.

I thought I must be the new Doris Stokes and pictured lecture tours, television sances and an appearance on Parky because I had a 20-minute conversation with Cyril on Thursday, March 6!

Thankfully, he is alive and well and confident Albion can survive. Bearing in mind Cyril has supported Albion for almost 70 years, I think a corporate day out at Withdean would be a fitting way for the club to say sorry.

I picked up The Argus on Monday and was knocked sideways by a headline which said: "Kitson on top." Was it shades of Bobby Ewing in Dallas? Had the last six months all been a bad dream?

Sadly, the headline was not about Albion's former Premiership striker, Paul, but award-winning stand-up comedian Daniel, who had a gig in Brighton last weekend.

Perhaps namesake Paul can follow suit and hit the headlines - preferably before the season ends.

The cricket World Cup is degenerating into a non-event. The authorities should do us all a favour, put everyone out of their misery and hand the trophy to the Austrailians now, or at least the ones who haven't taken illegal substances.

Call me old fashioned, but surely next time if would be better to drop the Super Six stage of the competition, have proper quarter and semi finals, dispense with pyjamas, revert to traditional whites, play between the hours of 11am-7.00pm in England and have it shown on the BBC.

Some hope.