Spotted Alyson Rudd (Times journalist) hanging around by the front gates at Selhurst yesterday. Watched her for a little while to see what she was up to, when four Asian "palace fans" walked past. My guess was that they were Chinese and she latched onto them straight away, interviewing them for a good ten minutes. Her photographer then posed all four of them at the turnstiles holding their tickets. I thought to myself, 'I can see the headline now, "Chinese invasion as Palace takeover looms" .' I caught up with her later on and she said that she is just doing an article on how so many Chinese tourists are coming over to holiday in England simply to go to a premiere league game. Nice lady. We'll see what comes out in the press.

has resisted writing a single post on the Ross McCormack thread !!!