LETTER: Sounds like a stadium complex

If Horsham Football Club want to compete in The Ryman Football League, surely they will need more facilities than just ‘one and half pitches and a clubhouse’?

By The Newsroom

Published 22nd Feb 2014, 08:00 BST

With reference to John Lines’ statement in the West Sussex County Times (6/2/14), ‘I want to again say we are not building a football stadium…’

I beg to differ. The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of a stadium is: ‘Noun (plural stadiums or stadia) an athletic or sports ground with tiers of seats for spectators.’

Football Association rules state that the football club will need covered accommodation with seating, floodlights, a public address system and a minimum capacity, which can run into the thousands.

All this, surrounded by two artificial pitches and a clubhouse that can be used seven days a week, sounds like a stadium complex to me.

KATE PHILPOT

Worthing Road, Horsham

Football Association