Archive for the ‘Crystal Palace FC’ Category

Can anyone stop Birmingham from winning the Championship?

by stresster on August 19th, 2008 | 224 words | 14 comments

What happens when you’re drawing or losing a football match in the English second flight? Do you a) panic and tell the team to play it long, b) send your central defender into attack or c) bring on Kevin Phillips to save the day?

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Reading reject joins Crystal Palace: Eagles swoop for two attacking midfielders

by stresster on August 11th, 2008 | 196 words | 1 comment

I’m in the minority of people who actually like Neil Warnock, having tremendous respect for the Crystal Palace manager’s achievements within the game. Indeed, there can be few people who have a greater knowledge of the Championship and the former Blades boss has today landed a couple of new players for his Eagles squad, which […]

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THREE THINGS you learnt from the Championship this weekend?

by stresster on August 11th, 2008 | 243 words | 3 comments

One game down, forty-five to go as far as the 24 teams in the Championship is concerned, but what did the opening weekend of fixtures tell us? Many regard Doncaster’s 1-0 win at Derby as the performance of the weekend, but that’s only working on the assumption that Rovers were playing League One football last […]

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Spurs midfielder claims ‘it was hard to leave Palace’, despite stitching former club up

by stresster on August 6th, 2008 | 268 words | 13 comments

It’s probably the last things that fans of Crystal Palace wanted to hear. One minute, you have a young quality midfielder on the books, rated at around the £2 million mark, next thing a tribunal has decided that the player can move to a Premier League club for £700,000 instead.

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Crystal Palace winger reveals Fulham trial through Facebook!

by stresster on July 9th, 2008 | 247 words | 1 comment

Perhaps we should start hunting social networking sites to find out what’s really happening behind the scenes during the silly season! After all

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Palace chairman outraged by ’scandalous’ Tottenham decision

by stresster on July 9th, 2008 | 317 words | 3 comments

It’s little wonder that Simon Jordan is in a bad mood today. Firstly, he has to read in the papers about one of his players revealing a trial with Fulham through the medium of Facebook. Then, to compound matters, the Football League have urinated on his bonfire from a great height after

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Eagles set to lose star midfielder: Dowie’s QPR are waiting

by jakepjohnson on July 2nd, 2008 | 214 words | 1 comment

Crystal Palace recently announced the signing of Nick Carle from Bristol City, signalling their acknowledgement that their star midfielder will be leaving Selhurst Park, with ex-manager Ian Dowie waiting in the wings.

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Crystal Palace Swoop for £1m Bristol City Oz ace

by jakepjohnson on July 1st, 2008 | 200 words | no comments

Bristol City have confirmed that they have doubled their money after letting their Australian midfielder join Championship rivals Crystal Palace.
Nick Carle, who was part of the side that knocked Palace out of the Championship playoffs last season, has signed a four-year deal at Selhurt Park for an undisclosed fee, thought to be in the region […]

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Why do so many clubs rate Everton’s Andy Johnson?

by Dexter on June 27th, 2008 | 172 words | 14 comments

Once upon a time, Andy Johnson was the 17th President of the United States. As we all know, he jacked that in ages ago, and he’s now a professional footballer with Everton, who - somewhat strangely - is being trailed by a veritable carousel of suitors.

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Bostock balls-up; is the stepfather to blame for a Crystal Palace-Spurs feud?…

by Dexter on May 31st, 2008 | 241 words | 21 comments

As tactless acts go, sending over a letter to ‘request a price’ for Crystal Palace’s midfield superstar John Bostock takes some beating; especially if you throw in the fact that this letter arrived at Palace HQ the night of their second leg play-off tussle with Bristol City. The culprits were Spurs, but the focus […]

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