Six weeks to go until the start of the new season. Just under actually and blues are in a pickle. The end of the season was unsatisfactory, we only stayed up thanks to points deductions for other teams. It was all very strange. We started really well and then very quickly it went down the shitter. There were some plausible explanations for that in the short term,but overall the performances were pretty inexplicable. We had decent players and should’ve done better. Since then it’s been almost comical. There were rumours that Craig Gardner had been phoning people up suggesting change might be in the air. Most people scoffed and wondered why anybody would want to buy you such a shower of shit and declared that mystery man who owns the club would not sell and that the ownership structure was just to labyrinthine to allow for a sale, certainly not a quick sale and certainly not with half the ground fit only for the knackers yard. Then, bugger me, there was a report in one of the national