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Another year of wet and windy Withdean!	Posted by David Snowball at Thursday, October 02, 2008
And so there will be yet another year to endure of wet and windy Withdean with its soulless atmosphere and dreadful vantage points. The news today that it will be 2011 before Brighton run out at their new stadium at Falmer must surely send a shudder down the frozen spines of most hardy Albion followers - especially as it has been accompanied by the most extraordinary spin from Dick Knight and Martin Perry that it is actually "good news" because a contractor has been appointed and work will soon get under way. What will be the feelings of Micky Adams and all those players he's convinced to join because of the impending move to Falmer? And when the club applied for an extension to the planning permission to use Withdean, we were told it was all just a routine matter to allow time for the place to be converted back to how it was in 1999. Now, lo and behold, oops, perhaps the real reason was for its ongoing use for Albion home matches. And what about all those people persuaded to buy two-year season tickets because the season after they would get deliverance to the promised land? Would it be considered way too cynical to suggest the landing of Robbie Savage on a month's loan was a shrewd public relations ploy designed to soften the blow which the powers-that-be knew they were about to deliver to Albion's seriously-disillusioned followers? Maybe the pressure is now off Adams to get the club back in the Championship quite as quickly as he had planned to? Nick Turrell Labels: Falmer, News 08-09, Nick Turrell