With what he had to spend and the players he had at his disposal,i would put him on par with George Burley and Dario Gradi as worst palace manager in the last 45 years.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Both of those managers could do no better than the second tier, Gradi helped us get relegated, and we still had some of the 'team of the eighties', Vince Hillaire for instance. Vieira finished 12th in the top league with us, twice. To put PV in the same league as them is plain stupid.

Has he shagged your wife or something? You seem to really hate him.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Your job: post team of the week and extol the virtues of the player you chose.
You name: Garth Crooks
Your output: bang on about the Anderson punch,(I happen to agree), wax lyrical about Eze (who can deny) and then return to his well worn theme of how we were insane in ditch Vieira.

Does he actually follow the football results?

Ageist, dumb pr**k.

Crooks (your licence fee paid for this):

Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace): I saw the contact made by Joachim Andersen on Jefferson Lerma in Crystal Palace's 2-0 win over Bournemouth and could not believe no action was taken. It was made with a closed fist and landed square on Jefferson's nose and broke it. If it had been a middleweight boxing contest it would have scored three on the points card, and Jefferson would have been entitled to a count. In fact the player had to take one. I've seen some incompetence since the introduction of VAR but this takes some beating. While most of us were wondering how on earth the incident could have been judged to be anything other than a punch, the video assistant referee thought otherwise. Meanwhile Eberechi Eze was subjecting Bournemouth and thrilling the Crystal Palace crowd with his own brand of knockout blows. This kid looks better every time I see him. His second goal was a peach equalled only by the pass provided for him by Michael Olise. The way these two super youngsters are emerging at Palace is impressive. All they need now is a young manager to help them develop. Oh yes - they had one of them and decided to get rid of him.

Yeah by leaving Eze on the bench.

Crooks is one of a number of Black media types who have been emboldened by the current climate to be openly racist.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (16 May 2023 9.28am)

It is unlikely that he would have referred to Lampard and Gerrard using the same language. Fact is that all 3 were great players but not so great managers. All 3 played under top managers and alongside top players, this doesn't automatically turn one into a top manager oneself. Crooks needs to shut up and stop making a fool of himself.

Does Crooks really think that an established EPL club can jeopardise their future and 'assume' a clearly struggling Vieira would have won these recent games as well, when if he didn't and the signs didn't look good relegation would be catastrophic for Palace. Investors would walk, all the good players would go and we would likely free fall to the EFL.