I'm not trying to be condescending - I genuinely wish you'd stayed up. Just want to offer my condolences on your relegation, for whatever they're worth, and I hope that you can sort it out and come back up for next season. As a club, you've always been likable and tried to play football in the right way, and you've got a fine young manager in Pardew. Good luck in sorting it all out, I hope you can keep hold of your talent(apart from any of the quality you fancy sending to us - I like the look of Zheng Zhi), and I think you deserve to be at the top again. I feel especially bad that you've broken your budget this season, to allow funds for Pardew and Dowie, and will miss the TV money next season, but I think that you can come back up, if you can hang onto players like Faye and Reid, and Bent, but that's probably a lost cause...
