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That is utter twaddle. There is a long tradition of building stadia in towns and cities. Just look at the London teams, look at the Liverpool teams, look at Newcastle, Sheffield United, Bradford City, the old Derby County, Leicester and Sunderland grounds. I could name dozens more. It's only...

Thanks Lord B. That's a thorough answer. And these are facts that I'm sure are going to come out in the Inquiry. The other options are falling by the wayside, one by one.

Of course not. Only an idiot would think that everyone would come by rail. If 22,000 people arrived by train, they'd need several hundred buses, can't even imagine where they'd park. As I said in my original post, given the amount of people that would come by train, I'd guess about 50 buses...

There's no way that Preston Park station could support a shuttle bus service for 22,000 people. Where would they all park? Not in Claremount Terrace, so they'd have to be on the London Road, causing some serious congestion. We'd be looking at about 50 buses. If there were to have a shuttle...

I made that point more sarcastically earlier. The NIMBYs cannot, sensibly, use the AONB as an argument if they propose to build on THV. If it's wrong to build on an AONB in one place, then it's wrong to build on another. That means that the NIMBYs cannot promote THV and Waterhall as alternatives...

Do we? I don't care where the site is, as long as we get it. Sheepcote, Waterhall, Falmer...they're all the same to me. Just give us a stadium.

I don't really care where the stadium is..as long as we get one. But one thing does baffle me. How come the Falmer residents were so concerned about building on an AONB and protecting downland when discussing Falmer and not when it comes to building on download at Waterhall? Why, that would...

It has a railway line nearby but no station. And one can't be built because of the proximity to the tunnel.

I'm obviously hoping that all these could be rejected and we can get the go-ahead but could someone acquainted with transport issues explain how the Madjeski got the go-ahead. That's not near a railway station, there are no sustainable transport links and, as a Reading fan pointed out, it was...