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Category Archives: Goldie
Speculation mounting over future of £70m transfer target Zaha
For Crystal Palace fans, that World Cup euphoria could be short-lived, as the optimistic It’s Coming Home theme of the past four weeks has segued into a version of the old Clash number: Should He Stay Or Should He Go? … Continue reading
Parish rejects reports of £200m Adams takeover bid for Palace
GOLDIE, our tame Eagle, tries to pick out the bones of truth from the latest tabloid reports about takeover bids at Selhurst Park “We don’t comment on speculation.” That was all a spokeswoman for Crystal Palace would say this morning … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Frank de Boer, Goldie, Sport, Steve Parish
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Frank de Boer, Steve Parish, Tony Adams
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One step forward, two steps back as Allardyce quits Palace
GOLDIE, our tame Eagle, reports on the latest exit through the Selhurst Park manager’s revolving door It’s another case of one step forward, two steps back at Selhurst Park today. Sam Allardyce, after rescuing Crystal Palace from the threat of … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sam Allardyce, Sport, Steve Parish
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Sam Allardyce, Steve Parish
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Ten things learned from Palace’s Premier League survival act
GOLDIE, our tame Eagle, has paused for breath after the weekend and had time to reflect on what to draw from the safe roost of mid-table at the end of the nail-biting 2016-2017 season In the end, it all looks … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Benteke, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sam Allardyce, Sport, Steve Parish, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Crystal Palace, Sam Allardyce, Wilfried Zaha
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Five things we’ve learned about Palace this season
Ahead of Sunday’s big day out at Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final, GOLDIE offers his insight into five things we have learned about Crystal Palace this season 1 Whatever the question is, Adebayor is not the answer A short-term … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Alan Pardew, Crystal Palace, Selhurst Park, Wilfried Zaha
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Rejects and nightmares that Palace’s Pardew must avoid
Yesterday, GOLDIE listed the five players who he would like to see Palace sign (or at least not sell), during the summer. Here, he let’s us in on the players he really never wants to see in a Palace shirt … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Alan Pardew, Charlie Austin, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Selhurst Park, Yannick Bolasie
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Cabaye tops the Palace wish-list: the five to sign this summer
As the squad begins pre-season training, our irregular Crystal Palace correspondent, GOLDIE, has hawked to us his football version of “Snog, Marry, Avoid”, identifying the players that he would really like to see signed up to play at Selhurst Park … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Alan Pardew, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Eagles, Loic Remy, Ola John, Palace, Scott Dann, Steven Caulker, Yohan Cabaye
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Palace’s League Cup draw revives memories of Cantona
From a loftier perch than usual, GOLDIE looks ahead to the end of the month, and Palace’s League Cup quarter-final trip to Old Trafford, offering a flavour of the promised land of the Premiership In 41 matches against Manchester United, … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Football League Cup, Manchester United F.C., Old Trafford, Palace, Premier League, Selhurst Park, United
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Palace begin to believe after the journey to Hull and back
GOLDIE’s feathers are ruffled: his eagle eye is not used to seeing Palace immune from travel sickness So it’s finally happened. A Saturday away win for the Palace. Other than fish, you have to wonder what was in the Humberside … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged AFC Wimbledon, Crawley, Crawley Town F.C., Humberside, London, The Football League
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Late, late show revives Palace fans’ great expectations
GOLDIE wings in after the opening three games suggesting that Palace might just take off this season I left the away terrace at Peterborough after the first game of the new Championship season in complete dismay, supplemented with more than … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Darren Ambrose, Dougie Freedman, Jermaine Easter, Owen Garvan, Sean Scannell, Wilfried Zaha
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Scannell’s strike helps prolong the madness
GOLDIE swoops in with the latest news ahead of Saturday’s relegation showdown at Selhurst Park They say in life there is a thin line between genius and insanity. In football, a manager can be as mad as a ball bag … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie
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Palace fans prepare themselves for a kick up the Rs
Inside Croydon’s tame Eagle, GOLDIE, has got its feathers ruffled: it really doesn’t fancy flying away from its Selhurst Park nest It is not a secret in football that on average, a side will pick up more points at home … Continue reading
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Points won. Points dropped. Point made
GOLDIE has flown home from last night’s tussle on the south coast, unhappy with the Palace performance but knowing that Portsmouth as a club are in far worse shape There is a roof on the away end at Fratton Park … Continue reading
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Solving the midfield muddle has lifted Palace
Palace fan GOLDIE is all aflutter about stadium announcements and the side’s new-found stability in midfield Around 11am today an announcement about a multi-million pound stadium the other side of the Thames that involves two Premier League clubs should make … Continue reading
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Selhurst Park has massive role to play in Palace’s future
GOLDIE, our man in the eerie above Selhurst Park, looks behind the gushing headlines about Palace’s proposed move, and assesses the possibilities of the £90m new nest Crystal Palace never do things the easy way. Only we could just manage … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Uncategorized
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Palace boss Freedman faces managerial baptism of fire
Inside Croydon’s man perched at the Holmesdale End, GOLDIE, says that Dougie Freedman has his work cut out to be more a Coppell than a Kember As Crystal Palace fans rejoice at the prospect of “one of their own” leading … Continue reading
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