Simon Jordan still being an arse six months after leaving Palace. Who’d have thunk it?

The former Eagles chairman threw his toys out of his orange pram last week at a creditors’ meeting, angry that CPFC 2010′s offer of 1p in the £1 wasn’t enough.

It was the job no-one wanted. Not even Steve Coppell wanted to come back to Crystal Palace to try and steer them away from relegation to League One. The club was in a mess; 10 points deducted plummeting the side from play-off contenders to relegation battlers, star man Victor Moses gone, no takeover bids, and a side shattered by the administration news and short on confidence. Anyone taking on the job would be mad, surely?

It seems a bit unfair that speculation is already mounting as to who will be Fabio Capello’s successor as England boss? Especially as the doughy-faced Italian hasn’t had the chance to lead the Three Lions through a proper competition yet, and has a record so far most managers would kill for.

The pressures of being a Premiership manager aren’t a secret – the mood status of thousands of fans resting on your shoulders, juggling the egos of 30 prima donas, probing journalists, and managing the bank balances of multi-million pound businesses can be a testing existence.

Wining your first four league games straight is championship winning form in anyone’s book. Yes, there are still eight months to go of a long, trying season, but with 15 points from 18 surely it is time to start taking Mark Hughes’s multi-million pound team seriously.

We live in a weird footballing world. Where some teams struggle to stay afloat and yet others have so much cash they are positively overflowing with notes. Doesn’t seem fair does it?