SW5 SAINT

I can see the couple of years allowed to bring your ground into line with modern regulations. However, to change your ground so as not to comply, just as you go up, would seem nonsensical......

Apparently Shrewsbury Town are about to convert part of their ground to safe standing, and they hope to be playing in the Championship next season. How is that allowed...?

I suppose it will depend whether the owner gets an entry visa. If he is denied entry to the UK on a permanent basis, I can't imagine he will have much interest in remaining Chelsea owner.

They're a bit like Donald Trump......

I think if Stoke had stuck with Mark Hughes, they would have stayed up no bother. They would have managed at least another couple of wins to stay up at our expense. Probably why the sour grapes now from Stoke, realising their monumental cock up in sacking him and handing him on a plate to us......

For some reason my skate "friends" all seemed rather disappointed on Sunday. Got one "friend" with a Sky sports account who when I texted him on Sunday afternoon was apparently out walking his dog on Porchester beach, rather than watching football on tv like he usually does.......

Stoke 2-1 now

You mean Krueger and Reed are knowledgeable professionals!?

Gutless Leicester. Cant help thinking our match against Leicester was a real missed opportunity.......

No he wouldn't , think how long he persevered when Wigley was clearly way out of his depth. In fact the Wigley Pellegrino thing is yet another parallel......

You mean Gao and Katarina get a windfall. Personally I'd rather they didn't win it, and forgo the windfall.....

in case you hadn't noticed it is a discussion forum.........

The one thing that was exactly the same, was in persisting far to long with a manager who was totally out of his depth....

If I was another Premier club, I wouldn't be looking at any of this disinterested bunch to strengthen my squad. I would think hey what if this time next year we are struggling..............

I would imagine in China if its not a Premier league club it doesn't exist, so probably zero interest from them then.

This, though not really bothered about the primarily British squads........

It can never be quite as bad as 2005, we don't have to go to fat pipes park and lose 4-1......

I've a nasty feeling that that bit of £75m business we did with Liverpool in January will result in them winning the Champions League, and us heading into the Championship!

I feel really sorry for any Man City fan having to put up with Phil Thompson on SSN. C'mon City..........

We're probably stuck with him. No ones going to take a punt on him on the wages he's probably on. I can't imagine he would at that stage agreed a relegation wages cut clause. Actually can't see why any of our big signings would have agreed to one of those, and to be fair none of them have looked exactly like that they were playing to avoid huge salary cut. Though there is always the chance he might be ok in the Championship......

I'm behind the settee............

I can't imagine that players like Carillo, Hoegt or Gabbiadini would ever have consented to come, if Southampton had insisted on a clause cutting their wages in the event of relegation...........

Except he didn't put any of his money in........

Explains why acquisition of a PL club is so popular with investors, they can't lose........

It will be many years before we beat another........