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Laugh out loud moment. Which given I am listening to the cricket whilst supposedly working has not gone unnoticed by others.

Here's the full article to save the click through: Questions have been raised about plans, unveiled today, for a redeveloped Selhurst Park stadium for Crystal Palace Football Club. The club has been considering up-grading Selhurst Park for at least five years. Yet sources at Croydon Town Hall...

And! There’s also some scepticism about the £100million price tag attached to the scheme and its timetable. Intended to increase the ground capacity by a mere 8,000 seats – from 26,000 to 34,000 – the project appears mainly to be the redevelopment of the old, wooden stand, with the...

It gets better: Unmentioned at today’s launch and in the glossy presentation which was slavishly published at the weekend by a Guildford-based, small-circulation newspaper, is that the scheme would also require the demolition of seven houses, on Wooderson Close, and that this would need a...

"The club has been considering up-grading Selhurst Park for at least five years. Yet sources at Croydon Town Hall say that the blueprints for the scheme were only presented to the council’s planning department within the past fortnight for pre-application discussions, and there is a suggestion...

Can you imagine the beauty of them unveiling that ready for a season in the championship and only half filling it. Could be the end of them (again). I hope the builders get paid upfront.

Lovely. I was being far too generous.

My favourite bit about this is how clean and washed the surrounding area looks. Is part of the deal that they are going to whitewash all surrounding buildings and clear out all of the shit surrounding the stadium?

Whatever happened to the 50,000 stadium in Bromley? Did they suddenly wake up to the fact that they couldn't sell out 25,000 in the Championship? So as I understand it they are building one new stand and claiming that's a new stadium? Is that right?