Rev Rob Esdaile is clearly a difficult man to please (Letters, September 28).

The police estimation, as published by The Argus, is that there were more than 9,000 people present at the Falmer For All march, which is more than undertook the far less testing process of signing the anti-stadium petition.

This was perhaps the biggest single political demonstration to take place in the city and included individuals from every walk of life - The Albion really is a broad church.

The figure is even more impressive when you take into account that it happened

at 5.30pm on a weekday, when many people are either at, or on the way home from, work or school.

I am sure that in making the comparison to Albion attendances, Rev Esdaile is aware that professional football is not played at 5.30pm on a weekday. He may have also overlooked that those who attended made full use of sustainable transport to get them into and away from the no-parking zone which is Brighton city centre during conference time.

As for his assertion he isn't being a Nimby, by continuing to advocate a stadium should be somewhere else (or indeed anywhere else as he fails to state his preferred alternative) and, bearing in mind the sites being reviewed have worse public transport links and are probably more environmentally sensitive, he is presenting the archetypal "not in my back yard" argument.

-Adrian Newnham, Saltdean