I'm stunned that some still believe we would of stayed up with him and shouldn't of sacked him... Off the top of my head was it 4 wins in 36 games?.... That tells you everything you need to know about why we had to get rid.

The FA Cup final only masked what a complete disaster he was becoming.

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind, the race is long. But in the end it's only with yourself!!

His arrogance about the situation is very irritating. There were some very good times and I'm sure all Palace fans wanted it to work out, but he should have resigned after the Swansea game and continuing to pretend he would have sorted it out is embarrassing. Having said that, he'll be a good pundit, just hope he doesn't cover any of our games. Watching him analyse our defence may lead to broken TV's over the course of the season.

"Brighton are talking about how they're coming for us. And it's like, we've been waiting in the Premier League for you for ages." Wilfried Zaha, 2017.

Said it when he was managing us and whilst supporting him.

He seems to me to be a motivational manager i.e. he'll get the guys up for games. But that means once you hit a rough patch he doesn't really have anything else in his locker.

Do not and never have thought of him as a coach.

Probably wrong but has always been my view.

Not surprised to hear him claim he'd have done the same in Jan. Would he really..? Three quality signings, I doubt very much he'd have got any of those players in.

Nice use of 'we' and 'us' when describing terrible shortcomings

Edited by Bangell (11 Aug 2017 12.48am)

It's a pity his ego forced him to chuck in the nonsense about what would have happened if he had stayed because it was an otherwise pretty good piece.

As much as he might like to pinpoint an event outside his control, Souare's injury, as the primary reason for our terrible form and therefore exonerating himself from psrt of the blame, it was in fact only one piece of that particular jigsaw.

As far as I'm concerned the main problem was that he clearly wasn't training the team properly which led to a complete lack of fitness and defensive organisation, both of which resulted in us shipping a lot of late goals.

Anyway, he's gone now and though I'm grateful for the first 12 months and the cup run, thank God he's not in charge anymore.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Surely it's the most extravagant exaggeration of the last hundred million years?

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