Love it. The use of faux in this context is a peach. And the purposeful spelling mistake just had me roleing in the isles.

Granted that by the mere tone of your recent posts I thought your name was ironic, but I realise you can’t exactly have deep joy in the multicolour of the rainbold if red n blue on their own can’t make you happy!!

So I manage a Workshop which provides a safe learning environment for blokes struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues. Being a Palace fan isn't listed yet.

there is another issue. if he left for Benfica, then his move from Benfica to Palace would surely be governed by Portuguese/English transparency rules...not Scandi ones. or no?

expat, can you find/translate the article that explains how the journalist knows there's an option. I'm not as sceptical as Mr Bexley, but would love to know. (not the entire article just the bit where they explain how they know)

And I'm still confused why we'd have done it the way we have. Again, I'm NOT disbelieving you.

Edited by Ginger Pubic Wig (09 Feb 2018 6.53am)

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

That's a Hebridean work song isn't it?

"How can I remember to keep it all together when half the moon is taken away?"

I don't believe that's the case. I will admit to having lost faith with Parish and the upper management (off the pitch) of the club. This window, after the horror show of the summer, appointing De Boer, crowing about 'dutch revolution', failing to replace Mandanda (twice now), one striker, sun coming up, coming on podcasts for a soft soaping and a whinge at the fans etc, has in all honesty made me far more negative about the running of the club than i've ever been. I feel here we are with the best manager we've had for years, and could realistically hope to have, and were i a betting man, i'd lump on big that he walks after keeping us up, such has been the piss-taking from Parish and Freedman.

So yeah, i don't go in for the happy clappy gee-up posts. Just call it as i see it, and at the moment, largely off the pitch i think we're a mess. It's tantamount to Roy's management that on the pitch we're doing alright, but when he walks in May, and we have Dougie in charge for pre season training, then it'll be a different kettle of haddock.

"How can I remember to keep it all together when half the moon is taken away?"

Again, Roy's quote did not say we did not have an option nor did he say no fee had been agreed - what he is quoted as saying is that "a longer stay has not yet been discussed".

Quite simply, that could mean we've not decided whether to take any option up & I doubt any such discussion would happen until he's been around a while & we can properly assess him.

Will this be five? It's gonna be five! It IS five!