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Category Archives: Crystal Palace FC
Holmesdale end? Fanatics’ support could be ‘lost forever’
With one win from four Premier League matches, you might think that Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace side needs all the support it can get at the moment. But the club has risked alienating a significant section of some of its … Continue reading
Information Commissioner orders Sussex Police to come clean over ‘knives and knuckle-duster’ claims
The editorial team of a Crystal Palace fanzine are today being congratulated by football supporters across the country for managing to hold to account the police, after the Information Commissioner’s Office ruled that Sussex Police’s had broken the Freedom of … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Five Year Plan
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Palace paid not a penny towards their Old Bill bill last season
Crystal Palace go into the big Premier League kick-off tomorrow with a London politician demanding that the club pays a fairer share towards the costs of policing matches at Selhurst Park. Palace was the only London club in the top … Continue reading
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
Free ticket offer for kids to Palace’s friendly v Toulouse
Youngsters are being given free tickets to Crystal Palace’s only pre-season match at Selhurst Park, against French Ligue 1 side, Toulouse. The offer is open to all children under 12 who are accompanied by an adult to the match on … Continue reading
Palace hit TV jackpot as they report record £143m revenues
Crystal Palace’s long delayed financial accounts showed that the club is cashing in successfully on the TV riches from being in the Premier League, with a £11.8million profit on the 2016-2017 year. According to Deloitte’s Money League, based on these … Continue reading
Palace accounts are ready to be published ‘in next few days’
Crystal Palace have dismissed reports that the company which owns the football club is about to be struck off for failing to file its annual report on time. CPFC 2010 Ltd, the company which controls the club, was supposed to … Continue reading
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‘Sir Roy of Croydon’ handed the Freedom of the Borough
Roy Hodgson, who came out of enforced retirement last September to salvage Crystal Palace’s Premier League status, has been nominated for a Freedom of the Borough. The council press release states that Hodgson, “has been recommended for the honour in … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Roy Hodgson, Tony Newman
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Roy Hodgson
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Palace’s relegation battle won, now fight starts to keep Zaha
It was the side’s finest performance of the entire Premier League season, rattling five goals past the recent past champions. Even Christian Benteke – renamed for the day Pen-teke – managed to score at Selhurst Park. With two games of … Continue reading
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Planning approval granted for £100m Selhurst Park scheme
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on a planning committee outcome which was never in any doubt This was one fixture in the 2017-2018 season which Crystal Palace Football Club were never going to lose. Croydon Council’s planning committee last … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Planning, Selhurst, Shifa Mustafa, Sport, Steve Parish
Tagged Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Selhurst, Selhurst Park, Steve Parish
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What’s in a name? Palace look to sell Selhurst naming rights
The Bet365 Stadium. The Etihad. The Emirates. The iPro. Bargain Booze Stadium*. The Amex… Modern sports stadiums are often known by the name of whichever amorphous corporate entity has bought up the naming rights to the venue, and Selhurst Park … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Football Club, Selhurst, Selhurst Park, Steve Parish
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Injury-hit Palace will need someone to halt Alexis goal threat
Ten matches to go, and Palace are back where they were after the first seven games of the Premier League season: in the bottom three. Which all adds a little more peril to the visit tonight of Jose Mourinho’s Manchester … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Roy Hodgson, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Roy Hodgson, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Selhurst Park, Wilfried Zaha
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Palace are playing a homes game which council will lose 5-0
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on the detail-lite presentation at the Crystal Palace stadium public consultation If you’re going along to the Crystal Palace stadium public consultation at Speroni’s tomorrow, don’t get too excited. The football club wants to … Continue reading
Posted in Clare Hilley, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Paul Scott, Planning, Selhurst, Simon Hoar
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Labour, Paul Scott, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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Up for the Cup: How Sheila Hodgson got Roy back into football
Crystal Palace play Brighton tonight in a televised FA Cup third-round A23 derby tie – ahhh, jumpers for goal posts, steamy beakers of Bovril, the magic of the… Palace are guaranteed of being in the fourth-round draw (it takes place … Continue reading
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Palace For Life charity is on the march again in 2018
Palace for Life Foundation, the official charity of Crystal Palace football club, has confirmed that it will again be staging its Marathon March this year. The inaugural sponsored walk, staged last October, saw more than 100 people take part over … Continue reading
£100m new scheme for Selhurst – but no one’s told Sainsbury’s
Questions have been raised about plans, unveiled today, for a redeveloped Selhurst Park stadium for Crystal Palace Football Club. The club has been considering up-grading Selhurst Park for at least five years. Yet sources at Croydon Town Hall say that … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Property, Selhurst, South Norwood, Sport, Steve Parish
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Selhurst Park, Steve Parish
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Loftus-Cheek needs to show his class in Palace’s dog-fight
A Crystal Palace rising star has been told he’s got to make sure he produces stand-out performances, for club and country, week-in and week-out. Starting at Wembley tomorrow night against Brazil, but also to help Palace win their relegation dog-fight. … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Gareth Southgate, Ruben Loftus-Cheek
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‘Silent’ Steve O’Connell scores own-goal with Palace punditry
It’s a question which many Town Hall observers ask, but few manage to answer satisfactorily: just what does “Silent” Steve O’Connell do for the near-£80,000 a year he pockets from being a local councillor and London Assembly Member? Well yesterday … Continue reading
Crystal Palace foundation girls only football sessions
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#WelcometoCroydon: Trams channel their inner Tevez
Croydon’s longest established non-league football club is running a recruitment drive. And they’ve borrowed an advertising trope from billionaires club Manchester City to encourage crowds of football fans to Croydon Arena. The Trams’ latest promotional poster is “Welcome to Croydon”: … Continue reading
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Hodgson tipped for Palace job as de Boer sacked after 77 days
The future’s not too bright for Crystal Palace fans, and it is certainly not orange, as the club this morning dismissed manager Frank de Boer after just four league games in charge. It is only 77 days since June 26, … Continue reading
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Palace for Life Foundation indoor football, Monks Hill, Mondays
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Eagles suffer planning snub over ‘inadequate’ training ground
Today’s defeat at Anfield was the second away loss for Crystal Palace this week, after the club had a planning application for new buildings at their Beckenham training ground rejected by Bromley Council on Thursday. Palace wanted to build what … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Crystal Palace FC, Environment, Planning, Sport
Tagged Beckenham, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC
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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
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Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Frank de Boer, Steve Parish, Tony Adams
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