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Teacher recalls Merton’s park stars finest hour and a half
Two south London boroughs have managed to produce a profusion of footballing talent, from Neil Sullivan to Callum Hudson-Odoi, from Jason Cundy to Wilfried Zaha. Here, DAVID MORGAN looks back to the days when he was manager of one of … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, David Morgan, Football, Merton, Schools, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Callum Hudson-Odoi, Croydon, David Morgan, Graeme Stuart, Jason Cundy, Merton, Neil Sullivan, Wilfried Zaha, Wimbledon FC
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Palace will sell Zaha when the price is right, says Parish
Wilfried Zaha will leave Crystal Palace in the next transfer window – provided the money is right. That’s the stark conclusion from an interview given by Palace chairman Steve Parish. Zaha handed in a transfer request just before the English … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Steve Parish, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Steve Parish, Wilfried Zaha
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The A to Zaha of Palace’s problems for new football season
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
Class act Zaha steps in to help finance Crystal Palace Ladies
Off the pitch, as well as on it, it seems, Crystal Palace are increasingly reliant on star player Wilfried Zaha to get them out of a mess. Last night, after 24 hours of less-than-optimal publicity over the club’s treatment of … Continue reading
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
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
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’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
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Roy Hodgson, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Roy Hodgson, Wilfried Zaha
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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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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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Council lists just 30 events in Croydon for Black History Month
Singer Faith Child and Crystal Palace footballer Wilfried Zaha are the special guests at tomorrow night’s launch of Black History Month in Croydon, being staged at the council’s office building, Fisher’s Folly. But anyone thinking that the local council in … Continue reading
‘Zaha is going nowhere’ says Palace chairman Parish
Wilfried Zaha’s agent may have just earnt the Palace player the sort of pay rise he was seeking. Steve Parish, the Crystal Palace chairman, last night dismissed the Tottenham transfer offer for the player as “ridiculous”. “We’ve told Spurs that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Pardew, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Steve Parish, Wilfried Zaha
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Want-away Wilf triggers £15m transfer bid from Tottenham
Wilfried Zaha, the home-grown England international and long-time darling of the Selhurst Park faithful, walked into the Crystal Palace manager’s office at the club’s Beckenham training ground this morning to request a transfer. The 23-year-old winger’s formal request – which … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Benteke, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Alan Pardew, Crystal Palace, Selhurst Park, Steve Parish, Wilfried Zaha
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Pardew looks to call on Palace’s not-so-secret secret weapon
FA CUP FINAL PREVIEW: Twenty-six years after a previous Wembley final appearance when he was a player in the Crystal Palace side, the club’s manager believes he has the answer to end 111 years of hurt. By IAN LAMONT When … Continue reading
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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AUDIO: Palace under pressure with eight games to go
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
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Roy Hodgson, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Alan Pardew, cpfc, Crystal Palace, Roy Hodgson, Wilfried Zaha
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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
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Neil Warnock, Selhurst, Selhurst Park, Steve Parish, Tony Pulis, Wilf Zaha, Wilfried Zaha, Zaha
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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
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Selhurst, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Malky Mackay, Premier League, Selhurst, Selhurst Park, Sport, Steve Parish, Tony Pulis, Wilfried Zaha
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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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Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Steve Parish, Tony Pulis, Wilfried Zaha
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Zaha pleads for a return to Palace to help revive his career
RAY RYAN on a transfer saga that has had as many twists and turns as one of the England winger’s own mazy runs Wilfried Zaha, the England winger who played a key role in Crystal Palace’s promotion season, has his … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Palace, Eagles, Selhurst Park, Steve Parish, Tony Pulis, Wilfried Zaha
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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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Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Eagles, Football, Manchester United, Selhurst Park, Sport, Tony Pulis, Wilfried Zaha
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Weary Holloway pays the price of his promotion success
So Ian Holloway has paid the price of success. The Crystal Palace manager tonight left “by mutual consent”, which for once was not intended euphemistically when it was announced by the club’s co-chairman, Steve Parish at a hurriedly called press … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Palace F.C., Fulham, Holloway, Ian Holloway, Parish, Premier League, Selhurst Park, Wilfried Zaha
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Palace stake millions on Gayle blowing up a storm
As the Premier League season approaches, IAN LAMONT assesses Palace’s summer signings When Crystal Palace signed Jose Campana from Sevilla, the wags on social media were quick to comment. By wags, I don’t mean the wives and girlfriends. The Eagles … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Dwight Gayle, Elliot Grandin, Ian Holloway, Palace, Premier League, Stephen Dobbie, Wilfried Zaha
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Inside Croydon’s Heroes of the Week: MOT Centre staff
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader has been in touch. They write: “I would like to nominate the mechanics of the Croydon MOT Centre in West Croydon. “Today, at approximately 4.30pm, I witnessed a very nasty road rage incident, yards from the … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Crime, Policing
Tagged Croydon, England, London, Road rage, Violence and Abuse, West Croydon, West Croydon station, Wilfried Zaha
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Inside Croydon’s Hero of the Week: Wilfried Zaha
Cometh the hour and a half, cometh the man. Even some of Wilfried Zaha‘s most devout fans had acknowledged that, well, maybe the young winger had seemed a little weary, perhaps even distracted, since his stunning start to the season, … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Brighton, Crystal Palace FC, England, Gianfranco Zola, Glenn Murray, Old Trafford, Palace, Wilfried Zaha
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