CPFC v Fulham by Crystal Palace F.C.

Crystal Palace v Fulham 02.02.2019 // 3pm

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Inside palace

Crystal Palace v Fulham Saturday 2nd February, 3pm

Directors Steve Parish (Chairman) David Blitzer, Joshua Harris

Chief Executive Phil Alexander

Programme Editor Jonathon Rogers

Graphic Design

Billy Cooke, Luke Thomas

Contributors Jonathon Rogers,

James Woodroof, Terry Byfield, Ian King, Dominic Fifield, Chris Smith, Chris Waters, Grace Cullen, Ben Mountain

Photography Neil Everitt, Sebastian Frej, Reuters, Pinnacle, Peter Hurn Rex Features, Tara Hook

Printer Bishops Printers

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IT WAS A FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE BY THE PLAYERS, WHO NULLIFIED EVERYTHING SPURS THREW AT THEM CONFIDENTLY

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cannot take our eye off the ball I would like to welcome both sets of supporters to Selhurst Park this afternoon as two teams close to my heart face off in Premier League action here in south London.

I would like to thank the Fulham supporters for the warm welcome they gave Ray Lewington and myself when we played them at Craven Cottage on the opening day of the season. My time at the club was one I will always remember very fondly as we had a lot of good times and were very successful. That is something I am hoping I’ll also achieve here at Palace, so while I’m firmly focussed on ensuring we come out on top in this fixture, I wish Fulham’s owners and directors, Claudio Ranieri, the players and supporters the best of luck in their relegation battle for the remainder of the season. We come into this game buoyed by our terrific win against Tottenham Hotspur last time we played here in SE25 as we progressed in the FA Cup. It was a fantastic performance by the players, who nullified everything Spurs threw at them confidently and were once again clinical in attack. A special mention has to go to Connor Wickham for getting on the scoresheet for the first time in over two years, which is an extremely long time for any striker to once again enjoy the ecstasy of scoring a goal. We’re being careful not to put too much in the way of a burden of expectation on his shoulders as it’s still early days in his recovery, but hopefully he can use that goal as a catalyst to find more for us in the coming months. Doncaster Rovers now stand between us and a place in the quarter-finals, but given our position in the table we cannot take our eye off the ball when it comes

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to our league form and that leads me on nicely to the Southampton game on Wednesday night. Usually I’d be happy with a point on our travels, but I came away from St Mary’s bitterly disappointed because we were good value for the victory. However, we lost our lead late on as well as Wilfried Zaha for today’s game as a result of his red card. It is a shame because the situation arose because a player of his talent gets kicked a lot during games and it’s hard for him not to allow his emotions to boil over. It’s something he needs to learn from as we need him in our team for games such as these, not sidelined through suspension. Finally, I would like to credit the Palace supporters for their recent backing of the team. For the second cup tie in a row, you were loud and encouraging against Tottenham and the players are unanimous in that it helps lift them when legs get heavier or boosts their confidence when things aren’t going right. Please keep that up again today. If you’re as vocal as you were at Craven Cottage on the opening day, then hopefully it’ll drive us on to get a similar result on home turf today. Enjoy the game!

WE HAVE BIG HOPES IN THE FA CUP AND IT’S GREAT THAT WE’RE NOW IN THE NEXT ROUND HAVING BEATEN A BIG TEAM

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we played well & had some chances Last weekend’s cup win against Tottenham Hotspur was a very good game and I have to give credit to those lads who played throughout those 90 minutes.

Those players who haven’t featured a lot this season showed that the manager can consider every player in the group, which is good for everyone’s confidence. As I’ve said before, we have big hopes in the FA Cup and it’s great that we’re now in the next round having beaten a big team. Wednesday night’s game at Southampton was a strange one because usually when you play away any point is a good one, but it still feels like we dropped two. I felt we played well and had some chances and scored, and then in the second half we tried to play a bit deeper, counter them and not take risks because they had a lot of pace in their backline. We had three or four very good counters and didn’t score, and then they scored their second chance in the second half and when you concede with 10 minutes to go, it’s hard to come back. Even so, at 1-1 we had a very good chance after a corner, and then had a few more shots but after the red card we made sure we took the result as it was. It was the third league game in a row where we let the lead slip away from us, but I think that is just a coincidence. Against Watford when we were winning, Wilfried had a one-on-one, and at 1-1 Macca was a yard away from scoring a tap-in, but in the Premier League if you don’t convert your chances into goals then the opponent will create something. We didn’t deserve to lose that game, or against Liverpool but we just have to move on from the results and look forward.

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Next up is this afternoon’s game against Fulham and it’s a huge one. They’re down towards the bottom of the table and we’re a little bit higher above them, so if we win we can say that the Southampton point was a good one after taking four in the space of a few days. We haven’t had a lot of time to prepare, but we’ve tried to recover as best as we can so we can be in the best possible position to win the match. This game is a six-pointer for us because we’re playing against a direct rival, and we don’t want to give them the chance to go above us so it’s a special game for us and we must take three points. It’ll be tough as they have a big threat in Aleksandar Mitrovic, who I know very well of course and hopefully I can help my defenders by giving an insight into how to play against him because he’s a great striker who works hard. However, we have to care about other players too as despite being second from bottom, they have quality so we have to give everything to make sure we get the result we want. Make some noise!

IN ALL RESPECTS THE TOURNAMENT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS, AND I RETURNED MORE ENERGISED THAN EVER TO FURTHER IMPROVE OUR ACADEMY

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I believe that our team is capable Welcome to the supporters, staff, players and directors of Fulham to south London today, and welcome back to each and every Palace fan.

Firstly, the thoughts of everyone at Crystal Palace are with the families of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson, and all at Cardiff City and Nantes, following their disappearance. Last week, I joined an academy squad in Tel Aviv as they took part in a very competitive international tournament. It was an experience for them, learning about the realities of life as a footballer with flights, early starts, staying in hotels away from family and the pressure of competitive football. It also gave me the chance to spend time with the coaches and chat to some of the boys. Tel Aviv is a fascinating place, and I’m pleased that the group had the opportunity to experience the country, including a once in a lifetime visit to Jerusalem. On the pitch, the team were competitive throughout, securing two draws from five games with the others being lost by just the odd goal. But the trip was more than just playing; it’s about their development as young men. In all respects it was a huge success, and I returned more energised than ever to further improve our academy. Onto first-team matters, Sunday’s FA Cup victory over Tottenham Hotspur was a very enjoyable occasion as we were the better side and thoroughly deserved to progress into the fifth round. Congratulations to Connor on his ‘proper’ return to action; to mark his first start in two years with a goal was a magnificent moment for him and everyone who’s worked with him on what has been a gruelling journey

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back to match fitness. Credit too must go to Julian who now holds every goalkeeping record possible at Palace – he truly is a club legend, and that remarkable double save still shows he is absolutely still worthy of a place in any Palace starting line-up. Seeing the Lower Holmesdale in full force was a sight to behold – the place was rocking! I’ve seen amazing videos of the pre-match event on the concourses, and I’m sure the atmosphere in that stand will become even bigger and better in years to come and be the envy of all clubs. As for the midweek match with Southampton, it felt like two points dropped, rather than one earned. We scored a brilliant goal, and their equaliser came from one of the few times they got anywhere near our penalty area. Wilf's suspension is not going to help today but we know we have a good squad and can win without him. We played brilliantly at Craven Cottage on the opening day of the season to take the points, but that will count for nothing today. Fulham come into the game after an extraordinary victory over Brighton which has narrowed the gap between us, so we cannot take anything for granted, so let's make some noise for Roy and the lads today. Up The Palace!

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Crystal Palace v Fulham // Saturday 2nd February // Selhurst Park

Today's game Palace and Fulham face off in SE25 in what is a pivotal game for both teams, as well as their relegation rivals, as the Premier League campaign enters the spring. Despite spending over £100 million in the summer, the Cottagers have found life back in the top-flight tough and head into this game in the bottom three, having replaced Slavisa Jokanovic with Claudio Ranieri back in November. However the Midas touch the Italian showed at Leicester City has been slow to take effect this time around, with the Whites becoming the first team in Europe’s top five divisions to concede 50 goals this campaign. That leaky defence contributed to 10 points being dropped from Ranieri’s first 11 matches, however, Tuesday's comeback win against Brighton & Hove Albion at Craven Cottage may have come at just the right time for the west Londoners, especially with talisman Aleksandar Mitrovic finding the net for the first time in a month. It is the first meeting of the sides at Selhurst Park since October 2013 when Fulham ran out 4-1 victors in what proved to be Ian Holloway’s final game in charge. Since then there have been 12 permanent managers between the two clubs, but Palace’s current boss Roy Hodgson well receive a warm reception from the travelling fans having taken Fulham to the UEFA Europa League final in 2010.

andros townsend has equalled his best-ever goal tally in a Premier League season, with his four strikes the same as he managed in 2015/16.

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Previous encounters:

Claudio Ranieri has won all three of his previous encounters with Palace, but he has never managed against any team overseen by Roy Hodgson.

Head 2 head

One to watch:

All-time

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Palace wins Fulham wins draws

Form guide: Palace have only won one home game against Fulham since 1969 when a 3-2 victory clinched their first-ever top-flight promotion. Fulham have lost all of their last seven Premier League London derbies – no team has ever lost eight in a row.

Last TIME OUT FULHAM 4-2 BRIGHTON & hove albion 25 Sergio Rico 4 Denis Odoi 20 Maxime Le Marchand 13 Tim Ream 22 Cyrus Christie 5 Calum Chambers 24 Jean Michael Seri 23 Joe Bryan

SUBS

14 Andre Schürrle

10 Tom Cairney

9 Aleksandar Mitrovic

Aleksandar Mitrovic has scored 40% of Fulham’s Premier League goals this season, the highest ratio of any player for any side in the top-flight.

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19 Luciano Vietto

12 Ryan Babel

3 Ryan Sessegnon

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12 NEWSROOM

Newsroom TWO NEW ARRIVALS FOR PALACE Last week saw Palace complete the signings of two new players, as Bakary Sako and Lucas Perri were added to Roy Hodgson’s squad. Sako rejoins the Eagles having left last summer after his contract expired, and having joined West Bromwich Albion in October he made six appearances and scored once before the opportunity to return to south London on a short-term contract materialised. Speaking about his move, he said: “I'm so happy to be back at Palace. I felt like I had some unfinished business here because I was really enjoying my football but a couple of injuries stopped that momentum. I can't wait to pull on the shirt again and the return could not be better for me." Brazilian goalkeeper Perri meanwhile has joined initially on loan until the end of the season from Sao Paulo, with the Eagles having an option to buy. The 21-year-old, 6’4” shot-stopper has also played for Brazil’s under-20s, with whom he featured in the South American U20 Championship in 2015 and 2017, and said: “It's huge, it's a really important thing to me. It's the opportunity of my life and I'm going to do whatever it takes."

DONCASTER NEXT UP IN CUP Last weekend’s FA Cup win against Tottenham Hotspur has seen Palace handed a trip to Doncaster Rovers in the fifth round of the competition. The Eagles last faced Rovers in March 2012 when the sides drew 1-1 at Selhurst Park in Championship action, while their last visit to the Keepmoat Stadium was the previous September when John Oster scored the only goal of the game for Donny to come back and haunt his former club. The tie against the League One side will take place on Sunday 17th February with a 4pm kick-off and will be screened live on BBC1. Ticket information will be announced in the coming days on cpfc.co.uk, so stay tuned to find out how you can be in attendance!

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NEWS

in brief

THREE GAMES CHANGED FOR TV Live TV transmission has meant that Palace's trip to Leicester City on Saturday 23rd February will now be a 5.30pm kick-off, and the home derby against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday 9th March will start at 12.30pm. Meanwhile the away game at Tottenham Hotspur has been moved to Sunday 17th March at midday, but is subject to change again should Palace reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.

MITCHELL SIGNS NEW CONTRACT

KAIKAI EXITS THE EAGLES Academy graduate Sullay Kaikai has seen his time at Palace come to an end after he joined Dutch side NAC Breda on a permanent deal. The 23-year-old winger netted on his Palace debut in a League Cup tie against Newcastle United in September 2014 and would play 11 times in total for the first-team, including two appearances this term, but will now get the opportunity to feature in the Eredivisie for Breda, who are currently fighting against relegation. Meanwhile, three development players have made loan moves including Nya Kirby who has joined League One outfit Blackpool for the rest of the season, and Joseph Hungbo who has linked up with Margate of the Isthmian League Premier League. Goalkeeper Oliver Webber has also made a temporary switch to eighth-tier club Greenwich Borough, while fellow shot-stopper Dion-Curtis Henry has joined Maidstone United on loan.

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Under-23s defender Tyrick Mitchell has signed a contract extension at Palace. The full-back has been at the club since 2016 and has moved through the academy to reach the development squad. This season he has played in 12 games for the under-23s while also training with Roy Hodgson’s first-team.

ACADEMY SIDE COMPETE IN ISRAEL Palace’s academy side recently participated in the Maccabi U19 Winter Tournament in Tel-Aviv, drawing their opener 0-0 with Maccabi Haifa and then losing to Dutch side S.B.V. Excelsior, Hapoel Be’er Sheva and eventual winners Maccabi Tel Aviv before ending with a 2-2 draw with Beitar Jerusalem.

CPFC TO GO CASHLESS To help alleviate queues inside and outside the ground, the food and drink outlets inside Selhurst Park and the Fanzone will be cashless from today onwards, meaning purchases will only be possible by using all major credit or debit cards, or Apple Pay and Google Pay.

CHRISTIAN

BENTEKE Being injured is always difficult for a footballer, but Christian Bentekeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life experiences and charitable work have firmly kept his hardships in perspective during his recent layoff. Fit again, the striker talks Ben Mountain through how he wants to make an impact on and off the pitch during the important winter months.

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Christian Benteke’s story is not quite what people expect it to be. It isn’t a headline-grabbing fairytale about triumphing over turmoil. It isn’t one for the screen or one for being uplifted by symphonic Hollywood scores. It isn’t even one that will go down in the footballing annals, but it is certainly one worth hearing. Its latest chapter saw the Belgian forward injured and enduring a period of dogged determination, unseen drive and athletic commitment. His time on the sidelines is an impressive, understated tale on its own but, naturally, to understand both the man and the footballer, you have to go right back to Benteke’s beginnings - a time when life's threats extended far beyond the pitch. Aged just two, life came hard and early for the Palace man. It came so early, in fact, that he struggles to remember much, if anything, from the most monumental upheaval of his life: when he and his family were forced to move from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, then the Republic of Zaire. But while he may be unable to recall much of those foundational years, their toll made the toddler’s life experiences resilient enough to impact the adult over 25 years on. In 1993 - then far too deep in infancy to understand the tyranny of political leader Marshall Mobutu Sese Seko’s regime - Benteke was forced into a tough existence from his very earliest of memories as he and his mother left a concerned father behind to start a new life in Liege, Belgium. “I was two,” he recalled. “I can’t remember what happened when we arrived, but I’ve been told by my mum. My dad stayed in Congo but I came with my mum because at the time there was a war so it wasn’t safe anymore. My dad decided to send us somewhere safer. “It wasn’t that hard to settle for me because we had a good, big family. My mum’s sister and her brother were in Belgium, so it was quite easy. But it was hard for my mother because the way we had to live was like living in a rush. Firstly, we had to wait; when you arrive

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from abroad, there is a centre where you can stay while you are waiting to get a place and sorting paperwork. “Then part of the time, we lived with my auntie and my uncle, though mainly I was just with my mum. But I know it was a long, tough journey with bad and

A LOT THE LADS HAVE BEEN IN TOUGH SITUATIONS; EACH OF US HAVE OUR OWN STORY good moments, like everybody has but it was just at a different level. A lot the lads have been in tough situations; each of us have our own story.” Along his particular journey, life took its course and football landed at the feet of Benteke, today into his seventh season in the Premier League. He began to play the sport with a typical childlike keenness to follow in the footsteps of his elder cousins, with the thought of elite-level football a million miles away for a young refugee with only a love of the game and familial encouragement spurring him on. Smiling, he remembered: “I started to play football because of my cousins as most of the time I was with them. I saw them playing and they were really happy. I thought I’d just copy them and I found it fun and that’s how I started, by playing with them on the street. Then I realised that it’s the thing I like doing most.

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“I was not the best but I was good at it. After a while, my cousins said: ‘you know what? You’ve got something. Come, we’re going to put you in a club’. I joined JS Pierreuse and from there I had to work to get where I am today.” From those early moments, an unceasing work ethic has remained and helped to lead Benteke not only to realising his once unimaginable dream, but also to maintaining it even when the game has taken its cruellest course. Ground down to the point where football had to stop, Benteke played his last match of 2018 in August against Southampton before leaving Selhurst Park a disheartened man. The next four months of the campaign suddenly became empty weekends and relentless hours in the gym as his knee injury forced him to watch from afar as his fellow teammates pulled on the red and blue. Elaborating, Benteke said: “It was frustrating because obviously the thing you like the most is playing football. Someone is taking that feeling - that joy of playing - away from you. I just want to be as fit as possible; I don’t want to be in and out. “I think there are a lot of different parts to recovery. You have surgery, then you have to rest and can’t do anything, then there’s the part where you come back and have to work hard on the fitness, and then you’re on the pitch and the knee or the leg or whatever has to get used to coping with the intensity that you used to put in before the surgery. There are different steps and different challenges, so every day it’s like a new fight. “But with strong people around you, you can deal with it more easily. My family have always been there through all the tough times and the good times and the lads have been good as well, trying to feel the pain that I had watching them and not being able to help them. But that’s the game and you have to deal with it. “I’m a player that when I’m injured, I know that I will come back stronger, there is no doubt about it. It’s you against you; no-one’s going to help you. Obviously,

I’M A PLAYER THAT WHEN I’M INJURED, I KNOW THAT I WILL COME BACK STRONGER, THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT

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you’ve got the physios and doctor but no-one is going to put in work for you.” As well as his family and friends, Benteke was aided throughout his recovery by Palace’s medical team right from the moment he left the pitch against Southampton, and the Belgian forward was keen to praise those unsung heroes for helping him back to fitness. “I said a big thanks to them since the first day of my rehab and credit to them because they put in a great job and we were on the same page. “We worked hard together trying to find the solution. We worked really as a team. I was just happy because I put in that work to be back at Selhurst, but it’s not like a completion, it’s like: ‘okay, you’ve done it now, let’s keep going until the end of the season.’” Throughout our interview, Benteke, though more than obliging, never quite came as alive as he did when the topic changed to a subject close to his heart. Back in December, the former Liverpool man visited the Crisis Skylight Centre in Croydon, a place to go for those who need it, namely homeless people and rough sleepers. “It was really nice to go there,” he said, animated, thoughtful and considered. “Sometimes you can’t realise how lucky we are. When you’re in the world of football, everything is easy, so it’s always good to remind yourself where you’re from and that people out there are in tough situations. “I met only one or two people at the Crisis centre because it was quite quiet that day, but they were happy because they had small things like a shower and a hot breakfast. For us it’s normal, but for them it’s big. I just don’t want to forget that and the little things; I don’t take anything for granted. “One day I went to a restaurant and saw a grown woman on the ground, and it was so cold that day. I felt so bad because no-one deserves to be on the street, no matter what they’ve done, and I felt like she could be someone from my family. I felt so sad; you can’t just walk on without looking, close your eyes and say: ‘okay,

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I don’t know her so I don’t care'. Because, at the end of the day, she’s still a human being like us and she doesn’t deserve that.” It goes beyond words for Benteke, though, and not one utterance is empty or insincere as the Belgian has lately donated a sizeable amount to support the club’s initiative to use Selhurst Park as a refuge to shelter rough sleepers from challenging winter nights. His contributions have gone entirely unnoticed and without publicity due to his own hesitations about drawing attention to them.

IT’S ALWAYS GOOD TO REMIND YOURSELF WHERE YOU’RE FROM “I don’t want to show off to people and say: ‘listen, come and look, I’m donating’. I just want to be behind a wall. As a Christian, I’m doing it for myself, not to show other people. The most important thing is not what you get, but what you give. “I felt like I wasn’t doing enough outside of football. Because it’s not just football, it’s about what you can bring out of football. And I know where I’m from, which is why I want to help people. I know I won’t change the world, but if I can do something small or can help someone - even just by putting a smile on their face - I would be more than happy: I’d be proud.”

24 GETTIN’ SHIRTY

Throughout this season we’re finding out which shirts matter most to the Palace squad. Here, Andros Townsend gives us an insight into the most special jerseys in his collection.

tottenham hotspur

Gettin’ yeovil town

england

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST SHIRT AS A KID?

WHAT WERE YOU WEARING ON YOUR PRO DEBUT?

WHICH IS THE MOST SPECIAL SHIRT YOU’VE WORN?

It would have been a Tottenham Hotspur shirt when they were sponsored by Holsten, but it didn’t have a name or number on the back.

That would have been when I was at Yeovil Town so their home kit from that season. It was green and white so it was attractive, and a little different!

Probably my England debut shirt which I got back in 2013 when we played Montenegro and I scored. I’ve got it hanging up on my wall at home.

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Shirty

With send Andros Town

italy

manchester united

BRAZIL

WHO IS THE BEST PLAYER YOU’VE SWAPPED WITH?

WHO WAS THE LAST PLAYER YOU SWAPPED WITH?

WHICH IS THE BEST SHIRT OF ALL TIME?

I’d have to say Gianluigi Buffon. I got it when England played Italy away so I reckon he’s probably the best player I’ve got.

That was Alexis Sanchez when we played Manchester United last season at Selhurst Park.

It would have to be the Brazil shirt from the 1998 World Cup. Hands down that is easily the best shirt of all-time!

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100 YEARS OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE PROGRAMME This season, Ian King celebrates a century of the Palace matchday programme as he charts its evolution from a humble pamphlet to its current form.

PART XIV 1988-1992

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1988/89

1989/90

Ahead of what proved to be a memorable campaign, the size of the programme increased to 32 pages which now cost £1 with a different action colour photograph on the cover, and while there was no indication of the editorship the style indicated there had been no change. Still predominantly printed in black and white, it opened as usual with Steve Coppell’s ‘As I See It’ followed by ‘Reds and Blues Round Up’ and three pages allocated to the visitors. There was an emphasis on ‘Family and Community’ with updates on the playing squad contained in ‘Palace on the Pitch’ and the centre pages contained a ‘Palace Profile’ in colour. A previous season’s details were shown as ‘Palace Through The Ages’ and assistant manager Ian Evans penned ‘Taff’s Talkabout’ aimed at the younger supporter until he left in January. Palace Lifeline appeared on its usual page and director Geoff Geraghty continued his ‘Direct View’. Towards the end of each issue came more club news in ‘Around The Ground’, and Adam Sells provided ‘Scene On 2’ with news snippets on the other clubs in the Second Division before the usual stats and team line-ups.

The club’s return to the First Division saw the programme continue in similar vein and price but the page count increased to 36 and a new printer was found in Ward and Woolverton. The manager’s notes were now headed up ‘From Steve To You’ and there was also the inclusion of a new item titled ‘Personality Spot’ concerning a well-known person connected with Palace or their opponents. The history section looked back at a previous player or season in ‘All Our Yesterdays’ and Neil Everitt’s photography portrayed action from recent matches over two pages as well as a centre-fold poster of a Palace player in colour. The advent of match mascots meant there was a small feature on the day’s two lucky young supporters and the visitors section was expanded to almost four pages. After covering the reserve and youth teams, the subsequent two pages gave ticket prices and information when it would generally cost between £5 and £10 to attend. For the third consecutive season Geraghty aired his sometimes forthright views, including one about the policing attitude in different areas of England. After more Palace news came a two-page stats section and the back page line-ups.

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1990/91

1991/92

For the start of a new decade the front cover maintained the same style but inside more colour was beginning to appear in the usual 36-page production which still cost £1, however on the downside the amount of advertising had increased and a printing error meant that for the season opener against Chelsea their name was missing from the cover. The format was repeated throughout the club’s most successful season in the top-flight as Coppell’s team remained continuously in third or fourth place and won the Zenith Data Systems Cup at Wembley. Apart from the usual features, Geoff Thomas added his ‘Captain’s Comment’ and a ‘Past Encounters and Their Programmes’ page reappeared. From October onwards the back page was reconfigured so that it included brief notes about the players of both sides alongside the line-ups to inform the spectator. During this season of live broadcasts by ITV, the programme for the Liverpool fixture could also be purchased from retail outlets in the days before the game. It would cost 30p more and there were an extra four pages wrapped around it that contained features about the league in general.

The club opted to allow a new company called Park Communications Ltd to design and print the programme, which saw an increase in pagination to 40 but came with a 30% price increase to £1.30. The front cover still mirrored the shirt design for the season but internally it felt more cluttered with advertisements now accounting for a quarter of the content. The main features remained but some changes meant that Geraghty no longer contributed, his column being taken over by Palace fan and journalist Peter Jacobs who submitted a general football piece. 'Junior Eagles' made a welcome return and ‘Historically Speaking’ catered for those interested in a past game or players connected with that day’s opponents. ‘Clubline’ was now a regular feature for fans to contact the club and get some exclusive content down their phonelines so there was a small section detailing recent interviews with players, including one conducted with Eddie McGoldrick while up a ladder at his house! The visitors section was reduced by a page that was instead filled by captain Thomas and the reserves and youth teams were afforded some extra space, while the programme concluded in the usual fashion.

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It is with sadness we announce that Tony Shaw passed away on 15th January. He was a lifelong Palace fan, an amazing dad, grandad and partner who was loved dearly by all that knew him! X

Wishing Dad/Grandad a very happy 70th birthday. A supporter of Palace for many years. Lots of love from Gary, Sally, Taylor and Luke.

Happy 50th birthday Dad. You've done everything and more for us, you're the ultimate ‘Geezer’. Lots of love from Emma and Steven x

Happy 21st birthday Niall Gibbons who has Happy birthday Bradley who is nine today. travelled to today’s game from Dublin. Have Have a great day and enjoy the game, lots a great day. Love Mam and Dad. of love from Nanny, Grandad, Mum, Regy and Connor xx

RIP Terry Simms, you will be truly missed by Happy 11th birthday Samuel Crouch, love us all. Just like Palace you fought until the from Mum, Dad, Josh, Phoebe and Toby xxx end. 09/10/1967 – 05/01/2019.

Happy birthday Ruby! Hope you enjoy your first Palace game. Love Finlay!

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Happy 60th birthday to Andy, a lifelong Happy second birthday Kady, our little Eagle. Happy 10th birthday to Noah Doran, travelling from West Cork for his first Palace Palace fan. Love from Mandy and all your Love from all your family x game! Lots of love, Mum, Dad and Thomas. friends and family. Up the Palace!

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Happy birthday Alastair, who is now 13! Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mon Eagles!

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Danyl Pearson - wishing you a fantastic ninth birthday. With love from Mum, Dad and Bobby.

Happy 24th birthday to Fergus.

Happy 50th birthday to Tony Deeley for 29th January, enjoy your special day and wonderful year. Love from Lynn and all your family xxx

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SPERONI RECORD BREAKER A vintage display between the posts by Julian Speroni last weekend finally saw him overhaul Nigel Martyn to become the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record clean sheet maker with 112 to his name. It may have taken over 15 years, but as the stats show it is a feat that will take some beating. Jonathon Rogers delves in the numbers.

40 JULIAN SPERONI

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PALACE'S MOST CLEAN SHEETS

1. Julian SPERONI

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2. Nigel MARTYN

111

3. John JACKSON

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4. Joseph JOHNSON

5. Jack ALDERSON

Games Clean Sheets

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Championship FA Cup

League Cup Play-offs

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Hands up if you remember the 3-0 League Cup win against Walsall in August 2005? You could have been one of the 5,508 spectators rattling around Selhurst Park that night and still not recall it. Possibly only reflected upon by debutants Aaron Fray, Tyrone Berry and Lewis Grabban, last weekend’s FA Cup success against Tottenham Hotspur transformed this overlooked cup tie into a moment of history – the first of Julian Speroni’s record haul of 112 Palace clean sheets. While the past few seasons have seen the Argentinian showered with Eagles goalkeeping accolades, such as surpassing 400 first-team games and playing more matches between the posts than any other SE25 shot-stopper, his man-of-the-match display against Spurs saw him finally surpass Nigel Martyn and take the overall clean sheet crown; the glovesmen equivalent of Peter Simpson’s unsurpassed 153 Palace goals.

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Patience has certainly been a virtue for the 39-yearold Speroni, who endured a year-long wait to keep his first clean sheet after Palace began the 2004/05 Premier League campaign poorly and Gabor Kiraly was installed as the Eagles’ first choice, and again had a gap of 13 months before he finally had the chance to break Martyn’s record after drawing level against Leicester City back in December 2017. But between those first and last blanks bookending his record are some extraordinary numbers. After Kiraly’s departure in 2007, Speroni seized his chance and would end up reaching double figures for clean sheets in each of his next seven seasons; a timeframe that saw him crowned the club’s Player of the Year a record-equalling four times as Palace returned to the Premier League. That occurred on the day of his favourite clean sheet: the 2013 play-off final win against Watford at

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MOST CLEAN SHEETS BY OPPOSITION

CLEAN SHEETS BY VENUE

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Wembley. In fact, the Hornets have rued his presence between the posts more than most teams, with the Argentinian enjoying six shutouts at their expense as well as Cardiff City, Barnsley and Hull City. Perhaps his greatest achievement came in the following campaign when he registered 13 shutouts back in the top-flight for Ian Holloway and Tony Pulis as the Eagles dug in and managed to survive in the Premier League for the first time in their history, with Speroni picking up his final Player of the Year gong at the end of that successful season. Speaking of managers, Speroni’s decade-and-ahalf at the Eagles has seen him named between the posts by no fewer than 15 different permanent and caretaker bosses, of which he only failed to keep his sheet clean for Frank de Boer and Lennie Lawrence. The biggest beneficiary of his talents is Neil Warnock whom

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he kept delighted on 39 separate occasions, and one oddity is that Speroni has kept as many clean sheets for perennial stand-in Keith Millen than current boss Roy Hodgson, with four apiece. He has enjoyed some remarkable purple patches; most notably in the 2011/12 season where he remained unbeaten for five straight matches between October and November 2011, and the previous campaign had seen him spend 12 hours between the Selhurst posts without picking the ball out of his own net as he kept eight straight home clean sheets between November 2010 and February 2011. Regardless of whether he made it to 112 clean sheets or not, Julian Speroni was going to be universally deemed by the Eagles fanbase as one of the club’s best ever goalkeepers. Now, the statistics prove undoubtedly that he is indeed Palace’s number one number one.

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CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF WINNERS 2017/18

The manager Ranieri returned to the Premier League when he replaced Slavisa Jokanovic in November to start the 18th managerial reign of his career. He worked his way up through the Italian football pyramid to manage the likes of Napoli and Fiorentina, and would also have stints at Valencia and Atletico Madrid before a four-year tenure at Chelsea starting in 2000. Spells at Parma, Juventus, Inter Milan and Monaco would be followed by the highlight of his managerial career - his historic Premier League triumph with Leicester City in 2015/16.

Club legend Immortalised in the form of a statue and stand at Craven Cottage, Haynes is regarded as the Cottagersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; greatest ever player. He debuted in 1952 and would spend the next 18 years at Fulham where he made 657 appearances, scoring 157 goals and helping them to top-flight promotion in 1959. Deemed as one of the best passers of his generation, in 1954 he won the first of 56 England caps, 22 of which were as captain, and would feature at two World Cups for his country. Haynes died in 2005 aged 71.

The stadium Craven Cottage Capacity: 25,700 Opened: 1896 Record attendance: 49,335 Fulham v Millwall Second Division 8th October 1938 PALACE

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LAST 5

Fulham 4-2 Brighton & Hove Albion Premier League

Fulham 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur Premier League

Burnley 2-1 Fulham Premier League

189

Clint Dempsey

196

Aaron Hughes

217

Brede Hangeland

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Fulham 1-2 Oldham Athletic FA Cup

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Arsenal 4-1 Fulham Premier League

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I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 1 GOAL S : 0

One of three keepers tried out by Fulham in the Premier League this term, Claudio Ranieriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrival has seen the loanee get the nod. Rico came through the ranks at hometown team Sevilla to debut in September 2014 where he impressed sufficiently to become first-choice keeper and lift the UEFA Europa League by beating Liverpool in the 2015 final. He won his only Spain cap to date in June 2016 and was included in their squad for Euro 2016. FFC Games: 18 FFC Goals: 0

I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 2 6 GOAL S : 1

Age

Bolton Wanderers

August 2015

Lokeren

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IN T E RN AT I ON AL CA P S: 3 G OAL S: 0

Manchester United

Age

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Nice

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Age

August 2018

FFC Debut

Signed from

IN T E RN AT ION AL

FFC Debut

20 FFC Games: 20 FFC Goals: 0

Signed from

Age

August 2016

FFC Games: 99 FFC Goals: 5

05 FFC Debut

Signed from

I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 1 GOAL S : 0

FFC Debut

FFC Games: 9 FFC Goals: 0

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Arsenal

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August 2018

I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 3 GOAL S : 0

Now in his second loan spell away from Arsenal, the defender scored his first goal for the Cottagers during the midweek win against Brighton. After a promising start at Southampton, he joined the Gunners in August 2014 and was handed three England caps by Roy Hodgson before that year was out, but struggled for gametime at the Emirates Stadium and joined Middlesbrough for the 2016/17 campaign. After their relegation, he returned to north London and made 24 appearances last season. FFC Games: 19 FFC Goals: 1

I N T E R N AT I ON AL

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Genk

FFC Games: 67 FFC Goals: 9

IN T E RN AT I O NA L CAP S : 2 5 G OAL S: 1

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August 2016

Signed from

Wolves

07 FFC Debut

Age

August 2016

IN T E RN AT I ON AL CA P S: 5 G OAL S: 0

Signed from

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Bristol City

FFC Debut

FFC Games: 105 FFC Goals: 6

August 2018

Middlesbrough

FFC Games: 16 FFC Goals: 0

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FFC Games: 27 FFC Goals: 0

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I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 2 3 GOAL S : 3

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I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 2 GOAL S : 0

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Blackburn Rovers

August 2015

Celtic

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Signed from

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FFC Debut

FFC Games: 150 FFC Goals: 27

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Scholar

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August 2016

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A teenage sensation last season, the winger netted 15 Championship goals to fire his team to Premier League promotion via the play-offs. His first campaign in the professional game the year before saw him named in the Championship Team of the Year, something he also achieved last term as one of five accolades claimed in the EFL Awards including the Championship Player of the Year. He also won the 2017 European U19 Championships with England, and is capped up to under-21 level. FFC Games: 107 FFC Goals: 25

IN T E RN AT I O NA L CAP S : 1 5 G OAL S: 2

Marseille

Age

August 2018

Nice

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August 2018

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Signed from

FFC Games: 26 FFC Goals: 1

IN T E RN AT I O NA L CAP S : 2 2 G OAL S: 2

FFC Debut

FFC Games: 14 FFC Goals: 0

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I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 5 4 GOAL S : 8

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FFC Games: 13 FFC Goals: 0

Besiktas

January 2019

Standard Liege

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FFC Debut

FFC Games: 2 FFC Goals: 0

Atletico Madrid

I N T E R N AT I ON AL

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Borussia Dortmund

I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 5 7 GOAL S : 2 2

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August 2018

Loaned from

FFC Debut

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Newcastle United

FFC Debut

February 2018

I N T E R N AT I ON AL C AP S : 4 6 GOAL S : 2 3

The winter arrival of Mitrovic catapulted the Cottagers to promotion as he fired in 12 goals in 20 appearances on loan from Newcastle United. That move was made permanent for £22 million in the summer, extending the Serb’s stay in England after three years on Tyneside. He previously won league titles at Partizan Belgrade in his homeland and in Belgium with Anderlecht alongside Cheikhou Kouyaté and Luka Milivojevic, and with the latter he helped Serbia qualify for the 2018 World Cup. FFC Games: 46 FFC Goals: 22

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Things you didn't know... ABOUT FULHAM

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Each week, Chris Waters delves into the archives to find some obscure facts about Palaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponents. Here, he looks back at all things Fulham.

The club was formed in 1879 as Fulham St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church Sunday School FC by worshippers who wished to play another sport in the winter months outside of cricket. The name was shortened to Fulham Excelsior before simply becoming Fulham FC in 1888. 10 years later they turned professional, becoming just the second club in London to do so after Arsenal.

Behind QPR (14), Fulham has had the most home grounds in British professional football with 12. The original Cottage was built in 1780, and it is rumoured that many famous people lodged there including Queen Victoria and Arthur Conan Doyle. The area was so overgrown that it took two years for it to be ready to play football on after the club had acquired it, with the first match taking place in 1896.

Craven Cottage is one of the most iconic grounds in the country with its location next to a park and the Thames, and its unique pavilion (The Cottage) at the Putney End of the ground. The red-brick Johnny Haynes Stand is a Grade II listed building, built in 1905 by famed stadium architect Archibald Leitch, who designed both the stand and the Cottage itself after London County Council had flagged serious safety concerns with the ground and had tried to get it closed down.

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Though Fulham have never won a major honour, they has been involved in two finals. The first was the 1975 FA Cup final when as a Second Division side the Whites - including Bobby Moore in their ranks - lost 2-0 to West Ham United, but more famously they embarked on an astonishing run to the UEFA Europa League final in 2010 under the guidance of Roy Hodgson before being cruelly beaten 2-1 in extra-time by Atletico Madrid.

The clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mascot Billy the Badger was the winning entry in a competition to design a replacement for a knight named Sir Craven of Cottage. Billy wears the number 79 shirt in reference to the founding of the club in 1879 and has been involved in a number of controversial incidents, including being sent off for break-dancing in the corner of the pitch after a match against Aston Villa had kicked off.

Most clubs have statues of former greats outside their ground, but in 2011 then-chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed took things to a whole new level when he unveiled one of his friend Michael Jackson outside Craven Cottage. The King of Pop had been to a Fulham match in 1999, and after his death 10 years later Al-Fayed commissioned the statue for Harrods, but after the department storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sale he changed its location. It is now located in the National Football Museum in Manchester.

Felix Magath lasted just seven months as manager in 2014 after failing to keep the Cottagers in the Premier League and leaving them bottom of the Championship. His tenure is mainly remembered for his recommendation to Brede Hangeland that he treated his injured thigh with a block of cheese soaked with alcohol, a story he claimed was distorted but was confirmed true by a number of players, including Hangeland himself.

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Palace & Fulham Gabor Kiraly

Chris Coleman

Brede Hangeland

Wayne Routledge Ray Houghton

Andrew Johnson

Tony Gale

Paul Trollope

Ronnie Rooke

John Salako

Johnny Byrne

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A foot in

Both camps

IN EACH EDITION, WE WILL TRY AND FORM THE BEST STARTING LINE-UP POSSIBLE COMPRISED OF PLAYERS WHO HAVE REPRESENTED BOTH THE EAGLES AND TODAY’S OPPONENTS, AND SEE WHICH CLUB COMES OUT ON TOP WHEN IT COMES TO APPEARANCES AND GOALS.

GK: Gabor Kiraly – CPFC 111/0 FFC 5/0 The tracksuit trouser-wearing custodian signed for Palace in 2004 to battle with Julian Speroni for the number one jersey, and spent a short time with Fulham in 2014/15.

LW: John Salako – CPFC 273/34 FFC 17/2 Another winger to roll off Palace’s famous production line, Salako would feature for the club during their golden period in the 1980s and 1990s, and joined Fulham back in 1998.

CB Chris Coleman – CPFC 190/16 FFC 165/11 The Welshman impressed so much in SE25 during the early 1990s that he was voted into Palace’s Centenary XI in 2004, by which time he’d helped start Fulham’s climb back to the top-flight.

CF: Andrew Johnson – CPFC 160/84 FFC 111/27 AJ rattled in the goals that sent the Eagles soaring to the top-flight in 2003/04 and led him to an England call-up, before a four-season stint with Fulham under Hodgson.

CB: Brede Hangeland – CPFC 25/2 FFC 281/12 Plucked from obscurity by Roy Hodgson, the giant Norwegian played a huge role in the Cottagers’ run to the 2010 UEFA Europa League final before ending his career at Selhurst Park in 2016. CB: Tony Gale – CPFC 3/0 FFC 318/21 Given the task of replacing Bobby Moore in Fulham’s backline, Gale spent seven years at Craven Cottage, but injuries ended his career following his move to Palace in 1995. RW: Wayne Routledge – CPFC 123/10 FFC 28/1 The Eagles academy product helped Palace to the Premier League in 2004 and starred in the division for a number of clubs, including Fulham during the 2006/07 campaign. CM: Ray Houghton – CPFC 92/8 FFC 145/21 A free transfer arrival from West Ham United in 1982, Houghton would help keep Fulham in the second tier before clinching Premier League promotion with Palace 15 years later. CM: Paul Trollope – CPFC 9/0 FFC 101/6 After swapping south for west London in 1997, the Welshman was a part of the Fulham team that went from the third tier to the Premier League bankrolled by Mohammed Al-Fayed.

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CF: Ronnie Rooke – CPFC 64/32 FFC 110/78 Snapped up from Palace by Fulham in 1935, the prolific striker could have been the Cottagers' record scorer had World War II not intervened. He later returned to SE25 as player-manager in 1949. CF: Johnny Byrne – CPFC 259/101 FFC 19/2 One of Palace’s greatest ever players, Byrne’s goals helped Palace reach the Third Division in 1961 and hand him an England call-up, but his stint at Fulham would see them relegated twice.

TOTAL APPEARANCES

CPFC 1,309

FFC 1,300

TOTAL GOALS

CPFC 287 FFC 181

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Ian King & Terry Byfield This season we are celebrating the 30th, 40th and 50th anniversaries of Palace's promotionwinning campaigns via a series of season reviews, interviews and classic match reports, detailing the key moments that saw the return of top-flight football to Selhurst Park.

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John

Goalkeeper | 1964-1974 388 Games, 0 Goals 1968/69 Record: 48 Games, 0 Goals

Jackson

How did you initially come to be a Crystal Palace player back in the sixties? Arthur Rowe spotted me playing for a London grammar school against an FA youth XI made up of players from other London teams and he got in touch with my teacher, and from that conversation I ended up having a couple of games with the Palace reserve side aged 18. Then when I joined full-time, I eventually took the opportunity with both hands, literally! How did you go from that point to being one of the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best ever keepers? Without a doubt that would be because of our coach, George Petchey. He used to work me hard but the harder you worked at your game the more you learned and the better you would become. He made me a more confident player which led to me being more vocal behind the back four, and I always remember Thursday being called shooting practice day so it would become a session where I would put in a massive shift! What did you make of your teammates who you would win promotion with? I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say that our squad at that time was full of outstanding players and with no disrespect to any of our guys, I would call us journeymen. I look at big John McCormick; really solid, worked hard and got on with the job but ready to put his hands up if mistakes were

made. John Sewell was another solid defender and Mel Blyth was someone always ready to do the best job for the team. The more experienced ones were complimented by some of the younger lads getting their chance like Steve Kember and David Payne to name two, although it was a real team effort with everyone working hard for the same goal, which is why it was so special when we achieved promotion. PALACE

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A few words were said at half-time by the manager and coach and we went out, turned it around and won 3-2. It was a weird sensation to be two behind because we hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been in that position for some time but once we got the first goal, before we knew it we were walking off the pitch as winners at the end of an amazing season, and that promotion was extra special as it was the first time Palace had been promoted to the top-flight.

What do you think was the key factor in the surge towards promotion in the latter months? There was some bad wintry weather which meant quite a lot of cancellations so we had some games in hand, and I remember at the beginning of the year George Petchey said that even though we had slipped down the table due to not playing, he still believed we could get promoted. The next week we won and from nowhere a run was underway, and of course the rest is history. George was certainly confident in his words and I think the way he put the message across gave the boys great belief that to have games in hand may be to our advantage, and so it proved. How do you recall that season finale against Fulham nearly 50 years on? We went into that game on the back of a 0-0 draw at Preston North End which as good as sealed our promotion, so some of the lads may have thought the job was done but we found ourselves 2-0 down.

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58 THE GLORY YEARS

1978/79

16th December 1978

Crystal Palace 3 Leicester City 1

Match report reproduced from the Croydon Advertiser

rystal Palace played with so much verve at Selhurst Park that Leicester did not really get much of a kick at the ball in the face of a convincing performance by the Second Division leaders. Palace made only one misjudgement. At half-time they were two up and had so dominated play that they assumed the rest was a formality. It was not. Leicester picked themselves up off the floor, pulled back a goal through May, one of their better players, and had Henderson got his aim right with only Burridge to beat instead of shooting wide, would quickly have drawn level. These were anxious moments for Palace, but Elwiss soon brought relief with an explosive goal from a hardly promising situation to restore the twogoal advantage. The balance of power was at once restored, too. Palace’s possession was built on their determination to win the 50-50 balls. Leicester were given no peace, and in the first half hardly had a look at the Palace penalty area. Among a number of solid individual performances, Sansom’s was outstanding. I don’t think he put a foot wrong throughout the 90 minutes, a display reminiscent of Bobby Moore at his best. Sansom has every chance of going on to wear the England shirt with equal distinction, but the whole Palace defence

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How could it be a push? It was our own goalkeeper who was fouled. I am very upset about this. It was a penalty for nothing and it meant we were 2-0 down.” Goalkeeper Wallington said: “It was a disastrous decision.” But Swindlehurst confirmed: “I definitely felt two hands in the back. What a good decision!” Attack in depth was the Palace policy, but on occasion their defenders were forceful, adventurous, aggressive attackers. Captain Cannon was the dominant figure in this display, left-back Sansom produced one of the fiercest shots of the game and from midfield Steve Kember did much to crush his former club. coped easily with a Leicester forward line notable mostly for its height. Cannon even had time to attack, and it was his run and shot which forced the corner from which he headed home past the at times elastic reach of Mark Wallington. Palace’s second goal on the half-hour was more fortunate, a penalty by Swindlehurst who had presumably been fouled by Wallington as they went for a high ball. Most, not least Leicester, had expected a free-kick the other way. Les Burden was the referee with the bionic eyes – at least that was the sarcastic blast from Leicester chief Jock Wallace. The Swindlehurst penalty that drove Palace an impressive stride nearer the First Division had even the fans mystified, and referee Burden’s whistle blew up a storm of protest. All looked innocent as Swindlehurst challenged for a high ball near goal. But the sharp-eyed referee spotted a push by May. Wallace said: “That man must have bionic eyes.

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Palace – Burridge, Fenwick, Sansom, Kember, Cannon, Gilbert, Nicholas, Murphy, Swindlehurst, Elwiss, Walsh. Sub: Smilie. Leicester – Wallington, Whitworth, Rofe, Williams, May, Goodwin, Weller, Ridley, Christie, Davies, Henderson. Sub: Hughes.

60 THE GLORY YEARS

1988/89

Story of the

Season Part 4

989 began with a home fixture against Walsall on 2nd January when Mark Bright celebrated his 100th Eagles appearance by ending an eightgame barren run with a hat-trick in a 4-0 victory after his strike partner Ian Wright had opened the scoring in the second minute. However it wasn’t all good news with skipper Geoff Thomas ruled out for the rest of the season and an FA Cup third round exit to Stoke City. Northampton Town’s Eddie McGoldrick signed for the Eagles for a fee quoted at £200,000 and he made his debut as a substitute in a Simod Cup tie against Luton Town. The Hatters’ new forward Iain Dowie gave them an 18th minute lead but Bright hit another hattrick, this time in 17 minutes, and once again Wright added the other in another 4-1 success. A 1-0 reverse at Chelsea saw Palace slip into mid-table but still in touch with the play-off places and a week later Swindon Town were the next victims of Bright’s purple patch as he netted a brace in two minutes during the second half that cancelled out the Robins’ half-time lead. Meanwhile, junior Gareth Southgate signed his first professional contract while Alan Pardew and Dave Madden were transfer listed. With both Palace and Middlesbrough out of the FA Cup, the clubs decided to play their fourth round Simod Cup tie on the afternoon of Saturday 28th January; a decision vindicated by the 16,000 turnout at Ayresome

Park where most of the action was contained in the final few minutes. Pardew opened the scoring early on with Boro equalising before half-time and that was how it remained until the 88th minute when the Teesside club took the lead, but further goals from Phil Barber and Wright took the Eagles into a semi-final at Nottingham Forest. February opened with a league visit to Ipswich Town where Wright netted twice in two minutes, one a penalty, midway through the first half and the 2-1 victory took Palace back into the top six for the first time since October. The hitman’s second goal was his 50th league strike for Palace and made him the club’s leading scorer in the higher divisions of the league, but the main talking point was the dismissal of Jeff

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Hopkins just before the end for a second yellow card which turned out to be a case of mistaken identity and subsequently erased. Promotion-chasing Blackburn Rovers were the next visitors to Selhurst Park as Wright netted after less than two minutes and Bright equalised seconds from the end in the rather tetchy 2-2 draw. Without a league fixture the following weekend, the players went away for a short break in France returning to play a friendly at Southend United on the Friday evening where again the team left it late in another 2-2 draw. Late goals were becoming commonplace and it was no different at Forest the following Tuesday evening as the hope of a cup final disappeared in the final few minutes. With the sides locked at 1-1 David Burke was red-carded and the hosts took advantage to score twice and knock out Coppellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s men. Palace then faced Bradford City at Selhurst Park on Saturday 25th without the services of Wright and Hopkins who had accumulated enough disciplinary points for a two-match ban, but the team rallied with

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Bright scoring both goals in the 2-0 victory. However, despite the club challenging for the play-off places and scoring goals freely, attendances rarely topped the 10,000 mark.

Step Back

The appointment of Steve Coppell and Ian Evans began a dynasty that was to take Palace from the doldrums of the Second Division to third place in the top-flight, via an FA Cup final. None of that could have been predicted as they strolled across the Selhurst pitch after signing their contracts in the summer of 1984.

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Behind The

Headlines

By Dominic Fifield

In his regular column, The Guardian’s London Football Correspondent gives a unique insight into the world of a football journalist covering the biggest names and games in the sport.

An experienced colleague once pulled

West Ham, had allowed themselves to

everything they read or hear. Well, in truth, it

me to one side, just as I was starting

be played.

should actually refer to comments made by his

out in this industry as The Guardian’s

Surely alarm bells over a potential

brother and agent, Danijel, who had gone public

North-East Correspondent, and

contract move must have rung despite

with the striker’s apparent desire to leave a few

warned me never to allow cynicism to

the 29-year-old secured until 2022?

weeks previously. Apologies to my colleague

overwhelm the tone of my reporting. He

The apparent £35 million offer always

up on Tyneside but, sometimes, cynicism simply

was encouraging me not to lose sight of

felt relatively derisory considering the

takes over.

the joy in the game in my coverage. That

Austrian had cost over £20 million from

has generally proved excellent advice

a rival Premier League club. Maybe his

but, two decades on, football makes

camp had sensed that too, to prompt

it increasingly hard to stay completely

those ridiculous suggestions that he

faithful to the mantra.

should be allowed to depart “to win

Video confirmation that Marko

trophies” after putting in such fine

Arnautovic had signed a contract

service at the London Stadium (over the

extension at West Ham United was

previous 18 months). So unsettled was

launched within half an hour of the

he by West Ham’s refusal to countenance

club’s elimination from the FA Cup to

a sale that he sat out a 2-0 loss at

AFC Wimbledon last week. Presumably

Bournemouth.

the Hammers had anticipated a

The subsequent U-turn felt staged.

comfortable dismissal of the team

Arnautovic, peering into camera in a

propping up League One and perhaps,

darkened room, may have looked like

once scheduled, it could not be canned.

a hostage in that video, but he was in

As it transpired, the whole PR exercise

complete control.

rather backfired. I have to remind myself that

t Do

“Finally you hear me talking,” he had started before sharing the joyous

Arnautovic is good copy. He is a

news that he was “back” (from his self-

controversial figure prone to outbursts

imposed exile). “Listen to what this club

as well as brilliance, and the drama he

or what myself is saying,” he said. “Don’t

whips up inevitably generates column

listen to what other people who are not

inches. But it was hard not to survey

in the club are saying.”

that mooted lucrative interest from an

PRE

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That, presumably, was a play on

unnamed Chinese Super League club,

the tired cliché ‘the media are out to get

and wonder quite how the world, and

us’ and that people should not believe

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Palace for life palaceforlife.org

“HE’S A TOTALLY CHANGED BOY” At least one in 10 children aged between five and 16 suffers from a mental illness, which works out at three in every classroom. At Palace for Life Foundation, we run the Team Mates programme in primary schools across south London, offering children a safe place to share their concerns and build up their self-confidence. One of those young people is Freddie, who was referred to Team Mates by his teacher because of his disruptive behaviour and angry outbursts. Freddie explained: “My favourite thing about Team Mates is that it lets me talk about stuff that I don’t really talk about. If I’m sad or if someone’s passed away, I would talk about it to people when I wouldn’t before. It’s helped stop me getting in fights or being nasty and lets me be who I am and have a positive attitude.” Freddie’s teacher at Bandon Hill Meadow Field Primary School, Mrs Rickwood, has noticed a great change in Freddie since the start of Team Mates: “He was always fighting and arguing, he was very destructive in the playground, and in the classroom he was even worse; he was disruptive and quite dangerous. He’s now calm and collected and you can have a conversation with him. He’s a totally changed boy. It’s amazing what Team Mates has done for him.” Learning through play is at the heart of the programme, helping to engage children and make sessions fun and enjoyable. The Foundation’s Team Mates leader Chase Hill [pictured] explained: “By creating a safe environment within the school, we work alongside Teaching Assistants and often let children lead the sessions, encouraging them to share and reflect on their own experiences.

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“The children we work with are referred to us for things like anger management, disruptive classroom behaviour, or in some cases they have been victims or witnesses of domestic violence.” Team Mates has now supported 104 pupils in 13 different schools, but we have a waiting list of even more wanting to join. To help us reach even more young south Londoners like Freddie, please visit palaceforlife.org/donate.

Congratulations to the group of 70 Palace and Fulham fans who today united to walk from Craven Cottage to Selhurst Park to raise awareness of mental health and male suicide. If you need help, or want to talk to someone, call CALM on 0808 802 5858 or visit thecalmzone.net.

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FACT FILE Name: Meghan McKeag Date of birth: 12th August 1989 Place of birth: Hackney When did you start at Palace? January 2019 Team supported as a youngster? Arsenal First footballing idol? Ashley Cole Career highlight to date: Breaking into the Arsenal first-team Favourite food: Italian Favourite TV show: Games of Thrones What do you do in your spare time? Socialise If you weren’t a footballer, what would you be? I’d want to work in fashion If you could meet anyone famous, who would it be? David Attenborough; what a legend! Hopes for the season: To get fit and get into the team

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Meghan McKeag

Palace was exactly the kind of club I wanted to be a part of. Before I signed, Dean Davenport outlined his vision and focusses going forward, and I realised it was something I wanted to be involved with. Now I’ve joined, everyone’s been very welcoming and supportive. I think it’s really nice when you can step out and be proud of who you’re playing for in addition to wearing the badge and getting along with the girls. It’s also nice to be affiliated with a big men’s club, because you’ve got that sort of reputation as well. I can bring plenty of experience to this team. At 29, I’ve worked with a lot of top coaches throughout my career and that’s really benefited me over the years. I’ve been at a few clubs, all within the M25! I started as a teenager at a Leyton Orient community project and got picked up from that and then went to Arsenal where I managed to break into the first-team. I left them for Chelsea, then to Millwall and Watford, and I’ve also played for Charlton Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur and London Bees. I’ve only just come back to football having taken a break. I left Watford and joined Spurs part way through the season only not to play. I had a good time there but didn’t feature so I decided to take some time out and continue training on a personal level. I concentrated for a while on futsal, but then I realised that I missed football and now I’m really glad to be back into it.

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I’m an attacking full-back but always looking to develop. While I play in defence, I like joining in with any attacks and try to put deliveries in. That’s a part of the game that I really enjoy and I like a good tackle as well, so I’d say they’re my strengths. But at the minute, I have to improve my general fitness to get back into football at this level. I think you’re never too old to learn so I’m always hoping to improve my game across the board, especially in terms of fitness. It’s nice to see some of the players I’ve met over my career again. I’ve played with Ashlee Hincks, Jordan Butler and Gemma Bryan before, and Freya Holdaway and I go right back to our Arsenal academy days together so to meet up again further on in our careers has been nice. Other than that, the other girls, the staff and the coaches have been really lovely. I’ve trained a few times with the team and what we do is very varied; we’ve got strength and conditioning aspects but there’s also the technical and tactical stuff too. I’m excited to play and work hard for the Palace fans. From what I’ve seen they are passionate and it’s nice to have people care about what’s going on, so I’m looking forward to seeing more of that. I want to repay them by working hard, improving where I need to and get into the team for regular fixtures. I’m really excited for this season, my Palace career and taking the opportunity to get back into football at this level.

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CRYSTAL PALACE 1 WATFORD 2 Saturday 12th January 2019

Two second half strikes saw Watford turn things around in south London to end Palace’s promising start to 2019. The Hornets could have found themselves in front after just two minutes when both Gerard Deulofeu and Roberto Pereyra hit the post, but after James Tomkins saw a header tipped over by Ben Foster on 35 minutes, the resulting corner resulted in a melee and the ball eventually struck Craig Cathcart before finding the net. With the game on a knife-edge Wilfried Zaha saw a one-on-one chance go begging before Luka Milivojevic

LINE-UPS

forced Foster to scoop the ball away from his top corner after a fierce half-volley, but on 68 minutes Cathcart headed a corner past Wayne Hennessey to atone for his earlier error. James McArthur was then a stud’s length away from turning home a Zaha cross before Aaron Wan-Bissaka cleared off his own line from Troy Deeney, but six minutes after equalising Watford went ahead when Tom Cleverley thundered an inch-perfect volley into the top corner to complete the comeback.

MAN OF THE MATCH

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45 Vicente Guaita

Ben Foster

Tackles:

Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Kiko Femenía

Blocks:

James Tomkins

Adrian Mariappa

Clearances:

Mamadou Sakho

Craig Cathcart

Touches:

Patrick van Aanholt

José Holebas

Crosses

78 James McArthur

Abdoulaye Doucouré

Etienne Capoue

Luka Milivojevic

Cheikhou Kouyaté

Will Hughes

Andros Townsend

Roberto Pereyra

Wilfried Zaha

Gerard Deulofeu

83 Jordan Ayew

Troy Deeney

9 90

SUBSTITUTES Palace: Hennessey , Ward, Kelly, Schlupp , Meyer, Wickham, Benteke Watford: Gomes, Masina, Britos, Cleverley , Sema , Quina , Success. Goal

Own Goal

Yellow Card

5 2 5 78 3

Red Card

First Sub

55 POSSESSION 45

DUELS WON

SHOTS

SHOTS ON TARGET

CORNERS

FOULS

Second Sub

Third Sub

Home Team

Away Team

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Venue: Selhurst Park Attendance: 25,010 Referee: Paul Tierney

Most key passes : 4

EVERY GAME HAS THOSE STORIES AT THE END BUT ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S THE GOALS YOU HAVE SCORED AND THOSE YOU HAVE CONCEDED. WE PROBABLY NEEDED TO CREATE MORE CHANCES TO GET THE SECOND GOAL

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liverpool 4 Crystal palace 3 Saturday 19th January 2019

Palace nearly stunned the Premier League leaders but couldn’t quite find a way to prevent Jurgen Klopp’s title challengers from maintaining their lead at the summit. Roy Hodgson saw his team take a shock lead into half-time thanks to Andros Townsend sweeping home a Wilfried Zaha centre after a fine counter-attack on 34 minutes, but within 60 seconds of the restart Mohamed Salah equalised after a shot ballooned into his path and the Reds soon received more good fortune when Roberto Firmino saw another deflected effort beat Julian Speroni.

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Alisson

James Milner

Joel Matip

Virgil van Dijk

However the Eagles fought back and James Tomkins equalised with a header from a Luka Milivojevic corner, but 15 minutes from time an error from Speroni allowed Salah to poke home his second before James Milner was redcarded for a second foul in quick succession on Zaha. But despite the disadvantage, three minutes into stoppage-time Sadio Mane wrapped up the win by scoring his customary strike against Palace, and despite Max Meyer grabbing his first goal for the club a couple of minutes later, Liverpool escaped with all the points.

Julian Speroni

Shots:

Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Goals:

James Tomkins

Open play crosses:

Mamadou Sakho

Sprints:

Andrew Robertson

Patrick van Aanholt

Pass accuracy in opp half: 78%

Jordan Henderson

Andros Townsend

87 Fabinho

71 Naby Keita

Cheikhou Kouyaté 75

Luka Milivojevic

Sadio Mané

James McArthur 81

Roberto Firmino

Wilfried Zaha

Mohamed Salah

Jordan Ayew

Liverpool: Mignolet, Moreno, Lallana , Shaqiri , Camacho , Sturridge, Origi.

Goal

Own Goal

Yellow Card

Red Card

DUELS WON

SUBSTITUTES Palace: Tupper, Kelly, Dann, Schlupp , Meyer Wickham , Benteke.

71 POSSESSION 29

First Sub

SHOTS

SHOTS ON TARGET

CORNERS

FOULS

Second Sub

Third Sub

Home Team

Away Team

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Venue: Anfield Attendance: 53,171 Referee: Jonathan Moss

Duels won - 12/12

YOU NEED A BIT OF LUCK IF YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;RE GOING TO WIN THE GAME. GOALS OFTEN HAVE AN ELEMENT OF LUCK INVOLVED, AND THREE OF THEIRS HAD MORE LUCK THAN OURS DID

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CRYSTAL PALACE 2 BOLTON WANDERERS 4 Selhurst Park // 18th January 2019

Home Away

APR

MAR

FEB

JAN

DEC

NOV

OCT

SEP

AUG

U18 Professional Development League Date

Opposition

18/08/18

Hull City

Res 5-0

25/08/18

Crewe Alexandra

1-1

01/09/18

Sheffield Wednesday

0-5

07/09/18

Bolton Wanderers

1-3

15/09/18

Watford

4-2

22/09/18

Cardiff City

1-0

06/10/18

Millwall

1-4

27/10/18

Ipswich Town

1-3

03/11/18

Bristol City

1-0

Palace: Jacob Russell, D. Boateng, Onoabhagbe, Siddik, Chamberlin-Gayle

10/11/18

Charlton Athletic

1-2

(Omilabu 90), M. Boateng (Ajayi 63), Donkin (Jude Russell 69), Addy, Aveiro,

24/11/18

Colchester United

1-1

01/12/18

Queens Park Rangers

3-4

Keutcha, Street. Subs not used: Luthra, Gurung.

21/12/18

Leeds United

5-6

05/01/19

Bristol City

2-1

Despite taking the lead twice, Palace

That prompted the game to burst

02/02/19

Colchester United

exited the FA Youth Cup in the fourth

into life and Wanderers’ Eddie Brown

round at the hands of Bolton Wanderers

found himself slipped through to face

after a pulsating 90 minutes at a chilly

Russell one-on-one only for the Palace

Selhurst Park.

shot-stopper to stand firm, and just after

09/02/19

Watford

16/02/19

Cardiff City

23/02/19

Millwall

02/03/19

Charlton Athletic

09/03/19

Birmingham City

12/03/19

Queens Park Rangers

Jacob Russell had to push away a

Addy’s squared ball into the net to put

16/03/19

Barnsley

well-struck free-kick from Luca Connell

Paddy McCarthy’s team in front again.

The visitors began brightly and

the hour mark David Boateng fired TQ

23/03/19

Coventry City

30/03/19

Burnley

02/04/19

Coventry City

Argent-Barnes had two good chances,

five minutes as Ronan Darcy struck home

after two minutes before Matthew

However the advantage lasted only

06/04/19

Sheffield United

firstly firing over after a sumptuous move

from within Palace’s box to make it 2-2,

13/04/19

Nottingham Forest

and then denied by an impressive save

and then a defensive mix-up between

18/04/19

Ipswich Town

from Russell.

Russell and Cardo Siddik saw the latter

Team

Pts

Cardiff City

Ipswich Town

Millwall

Queens Park Rangers

However, 20 minutes in Will Donkin

inadvertently give Bolton the lead for the

was brought down inside the box by

first time as the ball ended up trickling

Callum James to allow Brandon Aveiro

over the line with 13 minutes remaining.

to tuck home from the penalty spot

Charlton Athletic

Watford

and hand his side the lead, which they

force extra-time, the Lancashire side

Bristol City

kept until five minutes after the restart

ultimately ended any hopes in the dying

Crystal Palace

when Argent-Barnes picked up the ball

seconds when Darcy slotted the ball into

Coventry City

in the heart of the Palace box and shot

the Eagles’ goal to end their interest in

Colchester United

clinically into the corner of the net.

the competition.

As the hosts desperately tried to

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CHARLTON ATHLETIC 3 CRYSTAL PALACE 1 The Valley, Charlton // 29th January 2019

Home Away

APR

MAR

FEB

JAN

DEC

NOV

OCT

SEP

AUG

Professional Development League Date

Opposition

Res

10/08/18

Nottingham Forest

4-3

20/08/18

Crewe Alexandra

2-0

28/08/18

Burnley

1-2

03/09/18

Barnsley

4-0

11/09/19

Birmingham City

2-2

17/09/18

Queens Park Rangers

0-5

28/09/18

Watford

1-1

15/10/18

Bristol City

2-0

22/10/18

Coventry City

0-1

29/10/18

Cardiff City

2-2

Palace: Henry, Mitchell, Tavares, Woods, Brown, M. Boateng, McGregor, Keutcha

05/11/18

Millwall

2-0

12/11/18

Colchester United

4-0

(Aveiro 79), Trialist, Flanagan, Street. Subs not used: Tupper, D. Boateng, Addy.

19/11/18

Ipswich Town

2-5

26/11/18

Charlton Athletic

4-0

Palace’s development side missed the

felled on the edge of the area, and Kian

10/12/18

Bristol City

1-1

chance to gain a stronghold on a play-off

Flanagan saw well-drilled effort deflect

14/12/18

Coventry City

3-6

place in the Professional Development

through the Addicks’ wall and nestle into

07/01/19

Cardiff City

1-1

22/01/19

Millwall

2-1

League South as they fell to defeat

Chris Maxwell’s net.

28/01/19

Charlton Athletic

1-3

04/02/19

Ipswich Town

11/02/19

Queens Park Rangers

the front foot and Anfermee Dijksteel

when Fosu battled with Nikola Tavares

18/02/19

Colchester United

25/02/19

Watford

blazed over from distance, Tarique Fosu

20 yards out before aiming a shot at goal

04/03/19

Bolton Wanderers

struck the crossbar with a free-kick and

which cannoned off the Palace captain’s

08/03/19

Sheffield Wednesday

then George Lapslie forced a leaping

leg and curled around Henry.

25/03/19

Sheffield United

save from Dion-Curtis Henry all within

06/04/19

Hull City

the first 17 minutes.

15/04/19

Leeds United

against rock-bottom Charlton Athletic. The Addicks began immediately on

Team

Pts

Ipswich Town

Crystal Palace

Queens Park Rangers

Coventry City

Charlton’s pressure wouldn’t relent

But on 64 minutes Richard Shaw’s team found themselves behind again

With the game on a knife-edge, the hosts could have added to their lead but Jamie Mascoll headed a Dijksteel cross

and 11 minutes later they finally broke

wide and Rob Street struck fiercely at

the deadlock in smart fashion when

shot-stopper Maxwell, and in the dying

Taylor Maloney latched onto a loose ball

moments Giovanni McGregor launched a

on the edge of the box before rifling it

shot just over the home side’s crossbar.

Bristol City

Millwall

into the back of Palace’s net.

Watford

Starting the second half in a far

the game celebrating as Fosu latched

Cardiff

stronger fashion, the Eagles brought

onto a squared ball in the box to slot

Colchester United

themselves level six minutes after

home seconds before the referee blew

Charlton Athletic

the restart when Tyrick Mitchell was

for full-time.

PALACE

FULHAM

But it was Charlton who finished

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LADIES 81

CRYSTAL PALACE 0 DURHAM 2 Hayes Lane, Bromley // 27th January 2019

Home Away Date

Opposition

09/09/18

Leicester City

Res 0-2

19/09/18

Lewes

1-2

23/09/18

Millwall

1-1

30/09/18

Tottenham Hotspur

1-2

14/10/18

London Bees

1-0

21/10/18

Durham

0-2

28/10/18

Sheffield United

0-1

18/11/18

Manchester United

0-5

25/11/18

Charlton Athletic

1-2

02/12/18

Aston Villa

1-3

09/12/18

Tottenham Hotspur

0-1

05/01/19

Millwall

3-1

13/01/19

London Bees

1-2

Goals either side of half-time secured

27/01/19

Durham

0-2

victory for third-placed Durham Ladies as

10/02/19

Leicester City

Palace found themselves cancelled out

remainder of the first half, other than

21/02/19

Lewes

by a well-organised opponent.

visiting shot-stopper Hannah Reid being

10/03/19

Sheffield United

20/04/19

Manchester United

immediately in the ascendancy, as they

note as she put her gloves behind Kallie

28/04/19

Charlton Athletic

netted in the fourth minute thanks to

Balfour’s effort before Ashlee Hincks’

12/05/19

Aston Villa

Emily Roberts who latched onto a cross

race to bury the rebound ended in vain.

Durham began the game

which was fumbled by recent signing

only to see the feet of Gillett deny her. Little else happened during the

forced into action for the first time of

That would prove to be Palace’s

Team

Pts

Tottenham Hotspur

Lucy Gillett to bury the ball into the

best attempt, and following the break

Charlton Athletic

Eagles’ net, but the keeper atoned for

Durham doubled their lead almost

Durham

her earlier misfortune less than 10

immediately when Gears collected a

Manchester United

minutes later as Roberts broke through

lofted ball to loop her own effort past

London Bees

but the Palace shot-stopper stood firm.

Gillett, and with the lead firmly intact the

Leicester City

Aston Villa

Sheffield United

Lewes

Crystal Palace

Millwall

PALACE

FULHAM

The Wildcats then found the net for the second time only for Nicki Gears’ effort to be ruled out for offside, and

visitors were happy to hold possession and see the game out. They caused the home side one

moments later Roberts again came close

last scare when Abby Holmes worked

to doubling her tally but flashed a shot

her way masterfully into the box before

across the face of the goal, before teeing

cracking the ball into the Eagles’ side-

up Gears in the box after a smart run,

netting with only Gillett to beat.

82 STATISTICS

Seasonal Statistics Most Interceptions

Most Chances Created From Open Play

Andros Townsend

Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Top Goal Scorers 01. Luka Milivojevic

02. Andros Townsend

03. Wilfried Zaha

Overall Discipline

Total Goals

41%

Shooting Accuracy

Hit Woodwork

Shots on Target

131

Shots off Target

PALACE

FULHAM

STATISTICS 83

Pass Success Rate

Player In Focus

77%

Average Possession

45%

Most Minutes Played

2,160 v

FULHAM

No player has made more successful tackles (86) in the Premier League this season than Aaron Wan-Bissaka.

Best Tackle Success Rate

Sakho & Milivojevic

PALACE

Luka Milivojevic

80%

RES

ATT

POS

Sat 11