Crapdiff gambled everything on promotion and failed. And so the exodus begins...

All these players are either already gone or going. A lot of them were loans admittedly:

Chris Burke
Jay Bothroyd
Craig Bellamy (unless a deal can be made with Man City for a lot of money they don't have.  maybe player coach?)
Jason Brown
Stephen Bywater
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Jason Koumas
Gavin Rae
Martin John
Adam Matthews
Michael Chopra (probably as the fans despise him as he's out on the piss all the time and regularly turns up to matchdays hungover)

That's a lot of players. Most sickening of all for them is that Jay Bothroyd, Adam Matthews and Chris Burke are all leaving for eff all due to Cardiff's awful contract negotiations. All going on free transfers.

It's been made clear that large amounts of money wont be made available. Without some shrewd work during the summer, Cardiff may have just had the best two years of their existence for a long time to come. I wonder if Risdale accepts some of the blame...

You're starting to sound like the Smash Martians!

Three non-entities? What's 'nawty' about those wet dishcloths?

Add in the south coast derby of Pompey v The Scummers

Indeed, Pompey have always had a bit of reputation. No love lost there.

Fat Sam to take over at West Ham.

I thought he wouldn't drop down a division? I guess being a crap manager made that impossible

Didn't he want to manage Real Madrid at one point?

Gotta admire his optimism

Play off weekend with no comments about the play-offs.

Stevenage and Peterborough up already, Swansea & Reading to come today. Not really bothered as both clubs are pretty 'plastic', but on balance Reading's pubs are better and it's easier to get to so much as it goes against the grain it wouldn't upset me too much for the Swans to be promoted.

Yep, I'll give him that. Can't see Wet Spam coming back up though. Can't say I'll be losing any sleep over it.

Likewise I have nothing against either club. I'm edging toward Swansea as it would cap off an absolutely disasterous season for Crapdiff

I won't be watching it though. We're going out in a bit. Won't feel like I'm missing much either. Odd, because I normally look forward to this game no matter who's playing

Well on paper it should be a good match, two attacking teams. Hopefully, it will be as good as Huddersfield - Bournemouth recently - one of the best games I've seen this season.

Dearie me - Reading down 2-0 after 20 mins, despite peeing on Swansea for the most part. Still, it's a game about putting the ball in the back of the net.

If Swansea go on to win this it's going to be a larf in the EPL next season. I've never seen a defence (Swansea's) panic so much in my life. It's going to be a turkey shoot.

Oh and in will be a novelty having a Welsh team in the EPL.

And Bristol Rovers new manager is ....., Paul Buckle this has come as a big suprise to me as Ive not realised he was even linked to the job , best of luck to him he will need it. hope he gives us something to brighten up our saturdays rather than the the rubbish served up this season. 17 players have been released ( and apparently others escaped via hand dug tunnel)So roll on season 2011/2012 and promotion back to div 1 and the resumption of the local derby with our old rivals in 2012/2013, as long as the mayans and that american bloke ar'nt correct

Reading 2 Swansea 3.

This is why you can stick your Premier League up where the sun don't shine.

what a great game glad its raining as im supposed to be building a shed 3-3 at full time Reading to shade it in extra time

or Swansea to score late pen to win 4-2 seems more likely

I'm not entirely sure where Reading go from here - Long will certainly be plundered and Harte looks pretty clapped out to me. A great shame as the owner actually puts (and will be putting) a significant chunk of change into the local community.

Swansea should savour their moment. They look going forward, but I've seen nothing - even based on today's scoreline - to suggest they won't be battling to stay above the trapdoor next season. Welcome to the real world boys.