A backdoor way to report on Brighton FC | Brief letters

Guardian reporting ban | Gavel rash | Human rights | Proposed citizenship questions | Sans Serriffe News that the Guardian has been barred from the Amex stadium (Brighton ban Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom, 7 December) follows a previous exclusion order imposed by the club on the local paper, the Evening Argus, for publishing stories unfavourable to the then directors in the 1980s. The paper got around this by covering matches from a back garden overlooking the old Goldstone