Tag Archives: Roy Hodgson

Fanatics’ latest campaign helps raise Palace players’ game

Posted on July 11, 2020 by

Crystal Palace go into their final four games of the strangest of Premier League seasons, beginning behind-closed-doors at Aston Villa tomorrow, safe in the knowledge that they are secure in the division for a record-breaking eighth season, and with the … Continue reading →

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Palace to make history when they go live on Match Of The Day

Posted on June 5, 2020 by

Crystal Palace can rest easy in the assurance that, on this occasion at least, they are guaranteed to be Gary Lineker’s first match up on Match Of The Day. That’s because when the football season resumes, Roy Hodgson’s Eagles will … Continue reading →

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Hodgson calls for better government support for the NHS

Posted on April 13, 2020 by

Veteran football manager praises Crystal Palace players and club for their generous work in the community during coronavirus emergency Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson has called for the NHS to be given more, and better, resources from government, rather than … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 lockdown could cost Palace £37m in lost revenues

Posted on April 8, 2020 by

The covid-19 lockdown of top-tier football may end up costing Crystal Palace more than £37million. That’s the latest estimate by a leading football finance analyst, on the day after the chairman of the FA, Greg Clarke warned a council meeting … Continue reading →

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Without a win in 2020, Eagles fans are feeling on edge

Posted on February 9, 2020 by

Even the shock of striker Christian Benteke scoring on Saturday – albeit because Everton’s England keeper had a bit of a ‘mare – is not enough to disguise the growing unease being felt by Crystal Palace fans. On the face … Continue reading →

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The A to Zaha of Palace’s problems for new football season

Posted on August 10, 2019 by

A Croydon councillor has called for Wilfried Zaha to “knuckle down” and honour his recently signed five-year contract with Crystal Palace. As well as being a councillor for Fairfield ward, Chris Clark also happens to be a trades union workplace … Continue reading →

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Burnley beware: Fanatics are back at Selhurst in full voice

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

The Holmesdale Fanatics are back. The large group of ardent Crystal Palace supporters who in previous seasons have provided so much of the noise, colour and vibrancy at Selhurst Park, this morning announced that they are to return to their … Continue reading →

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Speculation mounting over future of £70m transfer target Zaha

Posted on July 16, 2018 by

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 →

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‘Sir Roy of Croydon’ handed the Freedom of the Borough

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

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 →

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Palace’s relegation battle won, now fight starts to keep Zaha

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

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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Injury-hit Palace will need someone to halt Alexis goal threat

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

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 →

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Up for the Cup: How Sheila Hodgson got Roy back into football

Posted on January 8, 2018 by

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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Hodgson tipped for Palace job as de Boer sacked after 77 days

Posted on September 11, 2017 by

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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AUDIO: Palace under pressure with eight games to go

Posted on March 20, 2016 by

Roy Hodgson, one of Croydon’s own, was at Selhurst Park yesterday. But the England manager wasn’t there checking on the form of Wilfried Zaha or Scott Dann. Hodgson was there to watch Leicester players Jamie Vardy and Danny Drinkwater. Palace, … Continue reading →

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Palace fan Daly has already had enough of ITV Sport

Posted on June 7, 2014 by

It hasn’t even started yet, but some football fans are already recoiling from the horrifying prospect of a month of wall-to-wall World Cup television fronted by Adrian Chiles, Lee Dixon and… yes, it has to be confronted… Roy Keane. The … Continue reading →

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Council’s “secret” consultation over plans to erase our history

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Another flaw in the omnishambles of Croydon’s library privatisation process emerges, with a £105,000 cut to the budget of the borough’s local studies and archives service proposed by the culture-free-zone that is our council. The proposal is, in effect, a … Continue reading →

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Roy Hodgson, Croydon and the “impossible job”

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

A former Crystal Palace youth player appointed as England manager? ED AARONS delves back more than 40 years to outline Roy Hodgson’s childhood in Selsdon Roy Hodgson, England manager. It’s a sentence that even the 64-year-old son of a Croydon … Continue reading →

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