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AUDIO: Pardew shows the pressure after late-late penalty

1-0 up. At home. Against 10 men. And then lose 2-1? To a penalty in the sixth minute of stoppage time? The pain and frustration caused by such an outcome was evident in Palace manager Alan Pardew’s post-match interview with … Continue reading →

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AUDIO: Pardew – ‘This point was everything for us’

It’s taken five weeks. But a point is a point, and after a dreadful run of form, Crystal Palace’s away draw at relegation-threatened Swansea yesterday will come as welcome relief, especially after the demoralising loss to Bournemouth at Selhurst Park … Continue reading →

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AUDIO: Wickham stands out in record 5-1 win in ‘pivotal game’

A record win in the Premier League. And against Palace manager Alan Pardew’s former club, too. Crystal Palace’s 5-1 win at Selhurst Park over Newcastle ended a run of disappointing results, including home defeat on Monday. Two goals each from … Continue reading →

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AUDIO: We had to change our tactics, says Pardew

Alan Pardew, the Crystal Palace manager, admitted after Saturday’s 2-1 Premier League home win over Aston Villa that he had been out-thought by Tim Sherwood’s side in the first-half. Bakary Sako sealed the Palace win with an 87th minute goal … Continue reading →

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AUDIO: Pardew says referee wasn’t ‘brave’ on key decision

Arsenal were sharper than Crystal Palace today in their 2-1 win at Selhurst Park, according to Eagles manager Alan Pardew. Arsenal took all three points after Olivier Giroud gave them a well-deserved lead with an instinctive and acrobatic effort after … Continue reading →

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Developing Palace’s young players is not merely academic

It is three years since the last time that a Palace Academy player made a first-team league debut. MATT WOOSNAM says this is a worrying trend “South London and Proud” read Billboards throughout Croydon and south London. The faces of … Continue reading →

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Palace need to stop measuring loyalty in burger purchases

PAUL DARVILLE on the unfairness of the Crystal Palace fan loyalty scheme, which offers more rewards for buying a burger or a replica shirt than it does for following the team to away games Crystal Palace’s club loyalty scheme, or … Continue reading →

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Cabaye signing could prove to be a real Palace coup

JAY CRAME, editor of The Eagles Beak website, on the significance of Palace’s record transfer signing Yohan Cabaye’s transfer from Paris Saint Germain is arguably the biggest signing the club has made since Attilio Lombardo joined in 1997. That in … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Palace offers youngsters sporting chance with One Goal

Crystal Palace Football Club has teamed up with London & Quadrant Housing Association to take part in a project called One Goal, which is offering free sport and arts activities over the summer holidays, as well as the possibility of … Continue reading →

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Trams appeal for extra support at their relegation decider

Palace fans not making the trip oop north this Saturday to see the Eagles play at Roker Park, or whatever they call it these days, could do a lot worse than get along to Croydon Arena for what should prove … Continue reading →

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Murray’s goals are making sure that Palace are minted again

And breathe… Palace fans were more than simply elated last night, as they saw their team take three points off the champions, Manchester City, with their 2-1 Premier League win at Selhurst Park. They were relieved as well, as their … Continue reading →

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Boxing Day defeat sees Warnock sacked as Palace boss

Keith Millen will take charge of Crystal Palace at Queens Park Rangers tomorrow, following the sacking of manager Neil Warnock, announced just before midday today. Steve Parish, the club’s co-owner, made the decision this morning, having seen the team disintegrate … Continue reading →

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Warnock makes peace with Puncheon to seal second coming

RAY RYAN talks with the Palace manager after an encouraging start to his return to Selhurst Park Neil Warnock reckons Crystal Palace have come a long way since he took over at the start of the season. Palace’s new boss … Continue reading →

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The Return of the Native: How Zaha came home to Palace

Bringing in a £10-million England international winger for £1.5 million should go down in anyone’s book as a “good bit of business”. That the deal that will see the return of Wilfried Zaha to Selhurst Park, , initially on loan … Continue reading →

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Watch out Puncheon, Warnock’s back in charge at Palace

Seven years ago, when he last rolled up at Selhurst Park, Neil Warnock declared it would be his last job in football. There are many Palace fans, and Jason Puncheon, who today will be wishing that it was. At an … Continue reading →

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Millen’s in charge, as Palace’s search for a manager continues

Here we go again. Crystal Palace fans who recall the month-long hokey-cokey managerial appointment “process” at Selhurst last November will have despaired yesterday afternoon, as it emerged that Malcolm “Malky” Mackay was not going to be appointed as the club’s … Continue reading →

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Mackay was poised to get Palace job and £25m transfer fund

2.15pm UPDATE (see below): So it’s to be Malky Mackay. Which it was always going to be from the moment Iain Moody was made “sporting director”, or whatever vacuous title he was given when appointed last year, and after Mackay … Continue reading →

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Palace fans in shock as Pulis walks out on eve of season

Crystal Palace go into the new Premier League season, with their first match at Arsenal tomorrow, without a manager. As disasters go, this is right down there. Tony Pulis, the manager of the year after dragging Palace out of what … Continue reading →

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Palace eye deal to bring Zaha back to Selhurst Park

Wilfried Zaha, one of Crystal Palace’s most popular players of recent years, could be on his way back to Selhurst Park, just a year after his £15 million move to Manchester United. Signed by United when Sir Alex Ferguson was … Continue reading →

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Pulis’s Palace will be gunning for the start of the season

Three London derbies in the first eight games are just part of a tough opening few weeks of the 2014-2015 Premier League season for Crystal Palace. The new season’s fixtures have been announced today, and Tony Pulis’s great survivors have … Continue reading →

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Are you local? New Addington’s Royston Vasey campaign

VOTE 2014: Labour needs to win both New Addington seats if they are to have any chance of winning control of the Town Hall, but they have been handicapped by internal wrangles and Tory accusations of being “outsiders” Labour’s determination … Continue reading →

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Palace fans protest against harassment from Croydon Council

Crystal Palace season ticket-holders in the Holmesdale end at Selhurst Park launched a protest against Croydon Council during the vital Premier League relegation match against Hull City last night. A large section of fans raised banners that stated: 6 STABBINGS IN 10 … Continue reading →

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Crystal Palace Overground Festival meeting: Dec 5

Local people are being asked to help develop more ideas for the 2014 Crystal Palace Overground Festival at the first of its monthly drop-in meetings on Thursday, December 5 from 8pm at the Methodist Church Hall on Westow Hill, Crystal Palace. … Continue reading →

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