One potentially worrying thing.

IF it's true Shearer was favoured due to his business links in Malaysia, then that worries me.

It's clear the Malaysians have to run the club as a business - no argument there - but when that drives footballing decisions, it could be problematic long term.

Totally agree nerd but I've given up trying to work out what is going on. Nothing we can do about it so just sitting back and seeing how things develop. I do feel quite down about this though.