That’s 3 of us agree, so we indeed have a winner....Terence William Fenwick is Palace, QPR and England’s biggest ever donkey!!

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Andy f***ing Preece.

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

I would say Tom Soares, but you would have to figure out if the donkey was even on the pitch first.

There is nobody else in this category.

I am guessing the reason no one brought him up yet is that everyone has been trying to forget.

Stealing their women and eating their food since 1987.

What??! He wasn’t even our worst-ever manager...by miles!!

Have you forgotten that he took a third division Palace to the FA Cup semi-final? I haven’t checked, but I think that was the first time it had been done, and has only been done twice (maybe thrice?) since! Only three Palace managers have taken us closer (Coppell, Pardew) or as close (Smith) to such major silverware. The 1976 away visits to Leeds (the mighty Leeds FFS, whom we outplayed) Chelsea and Sunderland (unbeaten at home all season - again, outplayed) will live in my heart until the day I die.

Yes, Allison took us into the third division and fell short of getting us out of it, but I loved how he made Palace headline news for the whole time he was with us...and I’ve still got the scrapbooks to prove it! And he gave us Dave Swindlehurst (aka “The Problem”) for goodness sake! And rebranded us as the red ‘n’ blue Eagles.

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Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Got to be,
Valerie’s Ismael about 98, closely followed by Bruce Dyer, but most of the Australians Venables bought in in his failed 2nd coming certainly deserve a mention!