• Arsenal face Crystal Palace away: the form and prognostications

Now there has been a bit of rumouring going on that really, the club we have to watch out for, is Chelsea, with their strange financial processes and outreaching arms travelling in multiple directions. 

Indeed, we have to ask, how on earth it is that they can afford all those players and not get hauled before the beak with questions about where all the money came from.  And why were they putting players on eight-year contracts?   And exactly how did they persuade the league to accept the notion that having a company made up of Chelsea people buy the ladies’ team, was an at-arms-length deal with a totally unconnected company?

Don’t even bother with answers on a postcard for that one because if it is believable, it is probably wrong.

But even so, we now have Chelsea down as the outlier.  The club that has found its way around the rules.  A club that can in fact suggest that playing football is actually only a secondary concern for them, coming as it does a long way after the money-making issue of player trading.   But then, if the...