Smiles all round as QPR get relegated

That photograph has left a little bit of a sour taste. It’s a still of Kermorgant passing the ball into Fuller for what would have been our 3rd goal but was ruled offside. A little bit sour but not as sourpuss as Tony Mowbray who was way up near the front of the ugly queue.

QPR and Reading played out a pathetic goal-less draw to join us next season. Relegation is normally met with tears and anger but all I saw today was smiles and apathy. Reading under Adkins with a lot more stability will bounce back I am sure, but QPRhahaha are back to where they belong, well almost, that might take another season.

With no clauses in player’s contracts reducing salaries upon relegation and a wageroll the size of Ireland’s national debt, the new Financial Fair Play rules may need a bit of creative accounting down at the Loft.

QPR have at least 25 players with contracts that run until the end of next season. Luke Young is one of those. Joey Barton has two more years and life-saver Christopher Samba is tied to the club on £100,000 a week until 2017! Absolute bonkers.

I think all Addicks would love to see the smug Pardew join those two but I am pretty sure the final game between Wigan and Aston Villa will decide it.

Bournemouth were joined by Doncaster yesterday after an absolutely crazy ending to a game. Donny have bounced back well after the ‘Willie McKay experiment’ went wrong last season, but how an earth are Brentford going to bounce back from Saturday?

The first leg of the play-off’s start on Friday. I hope the Bees do it.

At the PFA awards tonight it wasn’t entirely unexpected to see no Charlton players in The Championship Team of the Year, particularly as it’s voted on so early in the new year. Mark Hudson did make it though, and both Leon Clarke and Simon Francis (remember him?) were selected in the League One side.