Interesting you should say this. I have wondered if he is on the personality disorder spectrum as some of his repeated behaviours do point in that direction.

Agree with a lot of this.

As for Wilf being disappointed with his career path I would imagine that is spot on. Whether we like it or not he has been the biggest fish in our relatively small pond for some time now and I think he has always somewhat resented that.

The problem is however that he has to take the responsibility for this. I honestly don’t think any huge clubs were interested in him for a couple reasons: firstly being that his style of play is very individual and therefore his ability to contribute to a team effort was near non existent and secondly his temperament which I would believe has meant a lot of top clubs and managers would not even entertain the touching of a barge pole.

If he was ever going to play at the highest level he needed to address this in both adding to his game and adopting a maturer, ‘consummate professional’ attitude and he has only ever addressed the former which has somewhat coincided, and therefore I’m inclined to believe been adapted, due to the drop in his energy levels and pace.

United came very early and was bad timing in being signed by Ferguson but then him leaving however once again he has only the mirror for investigation if he ends his career having not achieved that he might think he was capable of. I also believe the aforementioned cost him his real shot with England.

The hope is and always had been that his departure would spark a new identity for palace and one that does not hinge almost exclusively on a single player. If he does go however recent history does not inspire me to believe this will happen. If he stays, it may well see Anelka’s ‘incredible sulk’ status threatened and that could be highly damaging.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Just to say we have played 28 games so far so we have 10 games left not 11. I'd take an extra game if it was Bournemouth though.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

He may well be, and should be, a role model for younger players but he's only a winner in as much as he wants to win, how many players don't? But surely winning things is part of it too.

Interviews with current footballers aren't worth the paper they are printed on. I learned that from reading Shoot! in the late-1960s and then from countless 'A word from the captain' columns in match programmes, home and away. They always tow the club line and never say anything controversial and rarely anything interesting for that matter.

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

They are probably all ghost written anyway