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 Seth  On a pale blue dot 06 May 14 3.37pm |
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The ginger tw@t Adrian Durham finally finds something positive to say about us - well Steve Parish anyway. Doesn't make him any less of a tw@t though.
Is there a chairman of the year award? Surely Crystal Palace’s Steve Parish and his other co-chairmen would win it. Parish is accessible to the Palace fans on social media for a start. But more importantly he and his colleagues have dealt with a really tough season at Selhurst Park. After Dougie Freedman left for Bolton (he really did), Parish – a Palace fan as a kid – had to make an appointment. He turned to Ian Holloway and after somehow securing £15million for Wilfred Zaha and then getting him back on loan, Parish saw Palace promoted the best way – via the play-offs at Wembley. Some chairmen would wallow in that success and take the parachute payment relegation from the Premier League brings. But not Parish. He backed Holloway in the transfer market – without blinking an eye Palace paid the £50k-a-week wages of Marouane Chamakh, a failure at Arsenal. He also paid the £6m transfer fee for another striker, Dwight Gayle, who had played just half a season in the Championship and been relegated with Peterborough United. Then Holloway unexpectedly quit and Parish was left looking for a manager ready to take charge of a team in disarray and heading down. He chose Tony Pulis and once again, backed his manager in the transfer market in January. And now Palace are safe in mid-table. Pulis will get a huge amount of credit for the job he has done and rightly so. But given everything that has been thrown at Parish and the other co-chairmen at Selhurst Park, they have shown some others in the top flight how a club should be run.
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Qwijibo  Bournemouth 06 May 14 3.44pm |
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He can f*** off
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| Barcelona Based Fan No longer Barcelona, now living in... 06 May 14 4.13pm |
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Am loving listening to talksport tonight (for a change)
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| EagleLee79 Mablethorpe, Lincs 06 May 14 4.13pm |
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Quote Qwijibo at 06 May 2014 3.44pm
He can f*** off
Hope they get smashed by Orient in the play-offs and lose to a last minute penalty
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| eagle184 Sutton 06 May 14 4.17pm |
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Hate listen to him talks absolute sh*te and he hates Palace with a passion.
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| Ulysses 06 May 14 4.26pm |
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Chamakh is on £50,000 a week?! Surely that can't be true.
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| paulose17 Sutton 06 May 14 4.39pm |
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This amused me, Someone wrote this in response to his chants article a week or so ago: Please take it easy on Adrian. It is fun for you all to point your collective fingers and laugh but do any of you know how difficult it is to be Adrian Durham ? Have you any idea how much effort go's into being as bitter and as twisted as he is? His shameless rants are crafted from years of anguish and torment He should be applauded not ridiculed. Try to think of him as a fully grown ginger Eric Cartman but with less knowledge and wisdom.
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| Seth On a pale blue dot 06 May 14 5.25pm |
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Another piece from Durham, this time singing the praises of Dwight Gayle: Dwight Gayle has gone from non-League wilderness to wrecking Liverpool's dream Two years ago this week Dwight Gayle scored a hat-trick and was man of the match for Conference North side Bishop's Stortford in a 4-0 win which saw Eastwood Town relegated. That’s the sixth tier of English football. A year ago he was leading the line in a Peterborough United side that was relegated in the final minute of the final game of the Championship season at, ironically, Crystal Palace. On Monday night he scored twice for Palace against Liverpool in that stunning 3-3 draw. He had already scored at Anfield earlier in the season and but for injuries this term, he would surely have added to his tally of five. As a kid Gayle was with Arsenal but they rejected him on the basis that he was too small. He reacted badly and football became just a kick-about with his mates. Then Dagenham boss John Still picked him up, loaned him out to Bishop's Stortford, and then put him in the Daggers’ first team before he got a move to the Championship. What a rise to glory. You can only be impressed with his mentality, his ability and his determination. Look at Kevin Phillips, one of my favourite players, who retired at the weekend: rejected by Southampton as a teenager, played as a defender in non-league football at Baldock Town before an injury crisis led to him playing up front. He never looked back and went on to become a Golden Boot winner, one of the few to score 30 goals in a Premier League season, and played for England. Still not convinced? Stuart Pearce was rejected after a trial at QPR, and then went non-League with Wealdstone. He ended up playing for England in a World Cup and European Championship semi-final. I will be privileged to be working with him at the World Cup for talkSPORT this summer. There are talented players out there in the lower leagues and non-League: I just wish more of our top flight coaches would get off their backsides and go and watch them. All of us who played school football, Sunday football - even football miles down the pyramid - will admire what Gayle has achieved. And the best thing about it is that he is a wonderfully humble guy as well. There are more out there – I would love to see Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers or Manuel Pellegrini go and watch a player in the Conference, pluck him out, polish him up and turn him into an international. It’s been done before. Surely that’s a massive part of what coaching is all about?
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| TUX redhill 06 May 14 8.05pm |
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There are more out there – I would love to see Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers or Manuel Pellegrini go and watch a player in the Conference, pluck him out, polish him up and turn him into an international. It’s been done before. Surely that’s a massive part of what coaching is all about? This, as an example.
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Percy of Peckham  Eton Mess 06 May 14 8.22pm |
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He writes like someone who is knowledgeable and passionate about football. He also appreciates those who feel the same way about their game and clubs. All football supporters are good guys in my book ....excluding Brighton supporters of course!!!!
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 Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 07 May 14 12.14am |
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Quote Ulysses at 06 May 2014 4.26pm
Chamakh is on £50,000 a week?! Surely that can't be true.
Unless he's willing to take a mega pay-cut, I'd rate his chances of still being with us next season as rather less than 50/50.
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| Kingvagabond London 07 May 14 1.41am |
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Quote Cucking Funt at 07 May 2014 12.14am
Quote Ulysses at 06 May 2014 4.26pm
Chamakh is on £50,000 a week?! Surely that can't be true.
Unless he's willing to take a mega pay-cut, I'd rate his chances of still being with us next season as rather less than 50/50. This may be true I'm not sure but it was intimated by Steve Browett that Chamakh was certainly not getting paid anywhere near £30k a week nevermind $50k a week. Its certainly possible he meant not being paid that figure by us... I'm more inclined to believe its more bollocks from Durham who tends to be somewhat prevalent in stating 'facts' that have come from local rags who have even less idea than we do.
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