One day, the big clubs will try to get a bigger slice of the PL money pie. Let's call their vision a super league that excludes clubs like Palace.

This is a huge problem. If we spend £100m on tarting up the Main Stand, and suddenly we get shunted back down the food chain, we are f***ed and our owners take an enormous financial hit.

How can we really invest when the gravy train might depart from platform 9 without us at any given moment?

Even if we do spend, we only get about 34k. We're still a small club with major impediments to growth.

People talk about investors who're willing to spend but it's just good money after bad.

It's a catch 22.

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

Bournemouth have invested you say but also you say that they have no better stadium. What therefore have they invested in?

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Like an F1 racecar you need to be on the right tyres for the conditions . Being on the right tyres in the PL means investing in your team to keep them in the race even if your driving a Williams .
What might happen in the future is of little consequence

I should clarify that the investment I refer to is the stadium.

We can, to a point, invest in players. But if all else is equal, then over time a stadium's ability to generate revenue is the main differentiator between one club and the next.

As a revenue generator, Selhurst must be second bottom (to Bournemouth) or possibly third bottom (also Brentford) in the division.

I appreciate Brentford is far smaller but I'm guessing it has good corporate as recently built.

That creates a long term gravitational pull.

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

There's no chance of this happening in the near future. The competitiveness of the premier league is a major selling point, the big English clubs ain't worried about us, we are miles behind. Its the other big European clubs, which the gulf just continues to get greater and greater. They need a European super league just to have any real chance of competing with the prem. UEFA will end up awarding 6 places in the champions league to the English clubs. Which will suit the big 6.

If a Super League were to come into existence I would expect it would have the same ramifications for all (other) clubs financially.

Personally, and hopefully without sounding too much like a moany old b@stard, I think it would separate the glory hunting, entertainment seeking fans from the 'actual' or let's say 'original' football fans. I think those who would suffer most would be those in the latter category who just happen to support a now big club.

For this reason, I think it would be a short-lived and commercially challenging prospect. By very nature of football it does rely on those who commit to it religiously even if there are still wooden seats, overpriced food and rarely goals from open play I would expect the super league to have a short lived but frantic spell before a massive fallout as most fans would continue watching their own teams within the traditional structure. If anyone questions my insight, research, general intelligence or expertise behind such comments and prophecies don't bother, you won't find much if anything

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!