Some nuts think the world will be no more in 2012 (hopefully after the Olympics is over), but for English football's traditions the end is nigh once more after Tuesday.

The shock-horror arrival of Arab billions at Manchester City, followed by their first trophy, Robinho, was mirrored by two old-style English managers, Alan Curbishley and Kevin Keegan, exiting stage left. Click to continue reading...

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London Informer/Paul Warburton - It's going to hap-Ben
QPR will play the waiting game over Ben Watson - and eventually laugh all the way to the bank.
Renewed speculation over the weekend predicted Rangers would splash out £2m for the Crystal Palace midfielder, who turned down a late bid from Nottingham Forest, having set his heart on a move across London to Loftus Road. Click to continue reading...

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Dave Parker/Brighouse Echo - "The Big Voice of Sport"
Praise for the QPR Operation -
"...I CALLED in last Saturday at Loftus Road in Shepherds Bush, right outside the back door of the BBC Television Centre and the famous White City.
Hardly saw a car once I was off the A40 Western Avenue as there are so many tube stations and this made it easy for getting away afterwards and we were back in Brighouse for 8. Click to continue reading...

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Perspective of one of the historically truly great football journalists, Brian Glanville

KICKING AROUND / BRIAN GLANVILLE COLUMN - SPORTSTAR
Funny game
".....And then, there is the curious case of Queens Park Rangers. Hardly analogous, since QPR, the West London club, have been taken over by three very rich men indeed. Click to continue reading...

Fresh from Daniel Levy publicly declaring Alex Ferguson's antics as "unbelievably hypocritical... and disgraceful", another football club boss has been exposed for what he really is. Simon Jordan, the man with the flowing golden locks who failed as a professional footballer, has spent the summer on a one-man mission to discredit Spurs after we appeared to land Palace's teenage sensation John Click to continue reading...

'A dossier is typically a briefing paper based on an individual of interest in police or intelligence circles'. That's the Wikipedia definition of a dossier.

My problem is Spurs aren't the police and they are demonstrating about as much intelligence as when they brought Damien Comolli to the club. Click to continue reading...

'A dossier is typically a briefing paper based on an individual of interest in police or intelligence circles'. That's the Wikipedia definition of a dossier.

My problem is Spurs aren't the police and they are demonstrating about as much intelligence as when they brought Damien Comolli to the club. Click to continue reading...

No club, regardless of size and financial strength, likes to lose players even more when they feel that the buying club acted illicitly in order to get to the man they wanted.

That Tottenham are the ones complaining - as they have done over Liverpool's move for Robbie Keane - is hugely ironic. Click to continue reading...

SATSUMA-TINGED Simon Jordan has announced plans to sell Crystal Palace to the ghost of Robert Maxwell. The former Oompa-Loompa and Kilroy tribute act took over at Palace in 2000 when he rescued the club from going into administration. Since then Jordan has butchered his way through eight managers, which has earned him a reputation as [. Click to continue reading...

If John Bostock ever goes on to fulfil his promise, he may find himself associated with similar headlines to the above but in an entirely different context. Bostock is a 16 year old wonderkid. A midfielder held in the same esteem as Rooney, Walcott and Ramsey. The kind of player destined for greatness. Click to continue reading...

Sidwell to Villa-

This looks like a good move for Martin O'Neill who sees Steven Sidwell as a good replacement to Gareth Barry if he moves to Liverpool. Also Villa will look to make a tidy profit if Sidwell moves for the reported £5 million and Barry goes for £15 million.

Sidwell always didn't look like he would make it into the Chelsea 1st team and will be chomping a the bit to get some 1st team action at Villa. Click to continue reading...

It's little wonder that Simon Jordan is in a bad mood today. Firstly, he has to read in the papers about one of his players revealing a trial with Fulham through the medium of Facebook. Then, to compound matters, the Football League have urinated on his bonfire from a great ... Click to continue reading...

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Players Training Further Photos from Squad back in training


Daily Telegraph/Rich Brown - Crystal Palace set to lose Ben Watson
Crystal Palace, who narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League last season, are resigned to losing talismanic midfielder Ben Watson. Click to continue reading...

As tactless acts go, sending over a letter to 'request a price' for Crystal Palace's midfield superstar John Bostock takes some beating; especially if you throw in the fact that this letter arrived at Palace HQ the night of their second leg play-off tussle with Bristol City. The culprits were Spurs, but the focus [. Click to continue reading...