Apols if any of this has been said already.

I am not normally one for defending the indefensible...but here goes.

Beneteke's all-round game was not terrible on Saturday.
Far from it. We were sat behind the goal at the Sainsbury's end. He won two huge headers from way beyond the back post, nodding them back into prime danger territory. They should both have been assists for goals, and he was clearly gutted that nobody had gambled on him winning the first balls.

For all our decent possession out wide, I don't recall anyone putting the ball on his head in the danger zone. Sako was more likely to hit the Arthur Wait from the members stand side of the pitch.

When it was played to his feet, CB generally kept it and laid off simple passes.

If a Palace player misses a penalty (and I am old enough to remember Bright, Wright and Pembo all missing in the same game*), I fail to see how booing them before the end of the game will achieve much. Some generous souls up our end were actually booing him as he came back to defend a corner; what utterly self-defeating prattery! I sensed they'd have been happy if he'd banged in an own-goal just to crown the moment.

Here's a thing...that we are a Premier club at all is in (small) part down to the efforts of Cameron Jerome in our first season back...the battering ram who barely scored two league goals all season. CB should never be allowed near a penalty kick ever again, but if he scores a few and others actually get on the end of his knock-downs, we might just stay up.

Apols if any of this has been said already.

I am not normally one for defending the indefensible...but here goes.

Beneteke's all-round game was not terrible on Saturday.
Far from it. We were sat behind the goal at the Sainsbury's end. He won two huge headers from way beyond the back post, nodding them back into prime danger territory. They should both have been assists for goals, and he was clearly gutted that nobody had gambled on him winning the first balls.

For all our decent possession out wide, I don't recall anyone putting the ball on his head in the danger zone. Sako was more likely to hit the Arthur Wait from the members stand side of the pitch.

When it was played to his feet, CB generally kept it and laid off simple passes.

If a Palace player misses a penalty (and I am old enough to remember Bright, Wright and Pembo all missing in the same game*), I fail to see how booing them before the end of the game will achieve much. Some generous souls up our end were actually booing him as he came back to defend a corner; what utterly self-defeating prattery! I sensed they'd have been happy if he'd banged in an own-goal just to crown the moment.

Here's a thing...that we are a Premier club at all is in (small) part down to the efforts of Cameron Jerome in our first season back...the battering ram who barely scored two league goals all season. CB should never be allowed near a penalty kick ever again, but if he scores a few and others actually get on the end of his knock-downs, we might just stay up.

Well that's a bit better I suppose. I still wonder how he could have thought he would score, given that he was evidently approaching it the way he had done previously, i.e. feebly.