I'm just hoping that Bloom does actually try and stay up on a shoestring, as he seems to be promising. What could possibly go wrong? There's umpteen pages of carping on NSC because the Sky requirements are going to cost them £5m, as they were convinced the Amex was PL-ready when it was built.

A mate of mine that supports Chelsea and Brighton (yeah) said to me last week that Brighton will tear up the Premier League. He said their squad is already better than ours because "at least half their squad is Premier League standard whereas we only have Benteke and Zaha". I said "at best you have two Premier League quality players". His response was "no way, we have 5 or 6 and Murray will score at least 20 goals in the Prem" so I pointed out that "half of a squad is 12/13 players not 5 or 6". He then said "what do you know anyway, you don't watch Brighton games?" So I informed him that I've watched 5 or 6 of their games online this year and the only one that didn't look like jumpers for goalposts was when they played Huddersfield, which they lost 3-0. I went on to list other players in our squad that are quality. To half of them he went "who? never heard of them, I don't watch Palace games". It was then checkmate when I said "ok, so you tell me I can't comment on the Brighton squad after watching 5 or 6 games, but you can analyse Palace after watching none of theirs?"

Oh I REALLY want them to fail. So so very much. If that makes me a saddo then so be it!

Yes, I work in an office with quite a few of them. I'm not even joking that I've heard them talking to each other about whether they'd be supporting Brighton or the other team they support when they play each other next season!

Mind you, I'll have a similar dilemma when Palace play whoever Brighton are scrapping with to stay up

A mate of mine that supports Chelsea and Brighton (yeah) said to me last week that Brighton will tear up the Premier League. He said their squad is already better than ours because "at least half their squad is Premier League standard whereas we only have Benteke and Zaha". I said "at best you have two Premier League quality players". His response was "no way, we have 5 or 6 and Murray will score at least 20 goals in the Prem" so I pointed out that "half of a squad is 12/13 players not 5 or 6". He then said "what do you know anyway, you don't watch Brighton games?" So I informed him that I've watched 5 or 6 of their games online this year and the only one that didn't look like jumpers for goalposts was when they played Huddersfield, which they lost 3-0. I went on to list other players in our squad that are quality. To half of them he went "who? never heard of them, I don't watch Palace games". It was then checkmate when I said "ok, so you tell me I can't comment on the Brighton squad after watching 5 or 6 games, but you can analyse Palace after watching none of theirs?"

Oh I REALLY want them to fail. So so very much. If that makes me a saddo then so be it!

I suspect they've been taken in by the Leicester Theorem = complete outsiders can win the Premiership. Unfortunately this Theorem only holds true once in each millennia.

Nearest they'll get to Europe is Newhaven Docks