Have Chelsea gotten planning permission for a stadium expansion? I read that they were looking to rent Wembley while expanding Stamford bridge.

8 days later

Reports of Schweinsteiger being on perhaps as much as £275,000 a week. Jesus wept. Although the German media say its £140,000 - truth is it's probably somewhere in the middle. Still absolutely mental money. Hope Özil and Sanchez don't have their noses put out of joint.

I'm very ready for the season to start now. Fed up of summer weekends with no football on.

That's why the PL should be on during the summer...

No, summer weekends are for outdoor activities in the northern countries!

I'd rather watch the Arsenal. 🙂

Me too, but i prefer it the way it is. When its a blizzard outside, i feel so warm and fuzzy, watching the Arsenal.

They should get rid of mid-week games allow bigger squads and then we could nearly have all year round footy.

Then the weekdays become boring...

It's amazing how much more time you have on the weekends when there's no Premier League football.

Yeah, what do you do......

They could expand the PL to say 25 teams and allow bigger squads to cope.
Oh and put their money where their mouths and withdraw from FIFA until it is reformed, if they did I'm sure other national FA's would follow suit.

I've really enjoyed the proper break from footy this summer in particular, I think I'd become a tad jaded with the whole scene if there was non-stop football.
Though I think the fact that I become hurling obsessive from late May to early September may fill that need for intense [size=medium]games, competition, winning, rivalry and settling scores 🙂[/size]

On this side of the world it probably helps that the summer break is winter here so I'm playing my own football in the weekend.