Ian Holloway to leave Crystal Palace by mutual consent. Holloway offered to resign after Palace's 4-1 loss to Fulham on Monday night but the chairman refused to accept it. Sounds like the had a change of heart.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... alace.html

Tony Pulis and Neil Warnock have emerged as two of the bookies favorites to take the Selhurst Park hot seat.

Gong into the Premier League with a Championship team made me unhappy. Not like there's some magical way to stay up when your best player was sold and you sign scrubs. Can't say it was his fault.

Was looking up some history on Chelsea FC and found that when Ken Bates bought the club in '82 he only bought the club and not the group that owned Stamford Bridge.

Bates supposedly agreed to a seven-year lease to keep Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Later, according to Bates, he had a handshake agreement with the majority shareholder of SB Properties to buy his shares in the company.

Bates later discovered that the shareholder was negotiating with the owner of Crystal Palace for a deal that would kick the Blues out of Stamford Bridge and they would share Selhurst Park with Palace.

In '86 there was negotiations to merge Fulham and Queens Park Rangers and then Chelsea would move to Loftus Road.

By then SB Properties was owned by a real estate developer who wanted to kick Chelsea out of Stamford Bridge and sell the stadium and redevelop it.

Eventually the real estate company that owned SB Properties went bankrupt and Bates was able to acquire the freehold and renamed the company Chelsea Pitch Owners.

The more I read about Ken Bates. The more I think thr guy didn't have a clue on how yo run a team.