Crystal Palace v Brentford matchday programme 22/23

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08 captain 10 chairman 34 pub talk 40 Ben Bailey Smith 44 will rose 46 over the road 49 south of the river 54 ABCD epl 56 2012/13 revisited 58 from the archive 68 beat brighty 70 stats & results

Directors Chairman Steve Parish, David Blitzer, Joshua Harris, John Textor Chief Financial Officer Sean O’Loughlin Sporting Director Dougie Freedman Club Secretary Christine Dowdeswell Head of Sports Medicine Dr. Zaf Iqbal Academy Director Gary Issott Director of U23 Development Mark Bright Chief Commercial Officer Barry Webber General Counsel David Nichol Director of Operations Sharon Lacey Head of Ticketing Paul McGowan Head of Retail Laura Holland Chief Marketing and Communications Officer James Woodroof Head of Safeguarding Cassi Wright Head Groundsman Bruce Elliott Editor Ben Mountain Design Billy Cooke, Luke Thomas, Stu Ellmer Contributors Will Robinson, Ian King, Ben Bailey Smith, Toby Jagmohan, Will Rose, Fran Kitching Photography Neil Everitt, Sebastian Frej, Pinnacle Photo Agency, Getty Printer Bishops Printers

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I’d go up and train with Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Ben Foster. To do that at that age is an eye-opener.

I was amazed by it... they were always good with me

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Plange and O’Brien join Molenbeek on loan Forward Luke Plange and Academy defender Jake O’Brien last week joined Belgian side RWD Molenbeek on loan, subject to international clearance.

Plange, 19, and O’Brien, 21, will spend the rest of 2022/23 at the Edmond Machtens stadium as Molenbeek look to gain promotion from the Belgian First Division B. Centre-back O’Brien initially joined Palace on loan

from Cork City in February 2021, before making the move to south London permanent in July 2021. His performances for Paddy McCarthy’s Under-23s in 2021/22 earned him a contract extension and half-season loan to Swindon Town midway through the campaign.

Forward Plange signed in January 2022 from Derby County.

He penned a three-and-a-halfyear deal and was immediately loaned back to Derby for the remainder of the 21/22 season.

He notched four goals and two assists in 26 appearances for the Rams in 21/22.

Fan update

On this day: August 30th

Supporters are reminded to keep off the Selhurst Park pitch at all times. Perpetrators may be prosecuted.

Palace drew 3-3 with Newcastle United and Wilfried Zaha bagged a remarkable 90th-minute equaliser upon his return from Manchester United.

Since then he has bagged 67 times from 289 appearances.

What’s inside Find out… whether Sam Johnstone would sooner fight a horse-sized duck or 20 duck-sized horses (Page 23), what Neil Redfearn’s like as a coach (Page 43) and what Joe Ledley made of the ‘McJedley’ nickname (Page 64). briefing

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manager

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Welcome to Selhurst Park to everyone supporting us this evening, and welcome also to Thomas Frank, the Brentford directors, staff, players and visiting fans.

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e performed really well in the Villa win and I was pleased with the character we showed, because when you go 1-0 down, especially in the Premier League, it’s difficult to get back and win. We showed maturity, determination and patience after conceding, and that allowed us to equalise almost straight away. It required us to pull our sleeves up during a difficult period and show the mentality to win despite going behind. This response came from the players, who have to show the togetherness and leadership on the field that can’t always come from the sidelines.

We had the right mindset going into the Villa game, but that wasn’t the case against Oxford. The match was harder than we expected and we have to give Oxford credit for that, but we entered the game with them wanting to win more than us. We can’t allow that, don’t allow that, and I won’t accept it. We may lose games, but when we’re on the field the minimum I expect is for us to match the opposition’s competitiveness. That may not

always be enough, but it’s the least I expect – and it wasn’t the case against Oxford in the first-half. I let the players know it at half-time, and in the second-half they gave the answers I wanted.

There is a really good togetherness in this squad, with experienced players taking the responsibility of making everyone gel I selected the two Academy debutants, Killian and Kaden, because they did well on tour. That was the right game to rotate some players in, and I knew we had calm, experienced professionals in Hughesy, Luka and Marc to provide the guidance younger players need when stepping up. Those three did fantastically well, as did Kaden and Killian. At 17 Kaden played manager

the game like a 25-year-old while competing out of position at rightback. He showed concentration and personality, and I commend him for that.

We put a team out to win against Oxford although it included several players who’ve featured less than others recently. Their performances show me they want to play, which makes my job more difficult. It’s going to be a long season and each of those players have an important part to play; at the moment each of them have done well.

Next in the League Cup is Newcastle away, which is a tough draw. But we want to go as far as we can and to do that we have to play these games. The players don’t complain about fixture congestion – they just want to compete.

We won’t always get the results we hope for, but we will always be up for the challenge.

There is a really good togetherness in this squad, with experienced players taking the responsibility of making everyone gel. I like what I’m seeing.

Thank you for your support

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captain

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We have built a lot of confidence behind us going into this game after two wins and a draw with good performances in all three.

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he Aston Villa win I will say was one of the most enjoyable to watch. This was a game where there was action throughout and I thought both teams would have enjoyed playing it.

For us, it showed that we can be clinical in attack and keep our motivation after being set back by the disallowed goal.

I think we showed this again against Oxford United, which wasn’t an easy evening. Oxford battled well in this game and were very organised, so I think in the first-half we struggled a bit to break them down. The manager told us at half-time to step up the attack and I think we carried that out, showing focus and determination to keep pushing at them and we were rewarded with two goals.

Of course, now we have been drawn to play Newcastle away and so have a tough fixture to get through if we are to progress in the League Cup. Our approach is to keep up confidence and momentum by winning every match, so although this game will also not

be easy, we will be tackling it head-first.

Two positives from the Oxford game were Killian and Kaden’s debuts. Both of them did well in their first professional match and are handling themselves well around the senior players, so

I enjoyed the Villa game not just for the performance on the pitch but for the atmosphere within the stadium which was as loud as ever

congratulations to them and I hope they keep their heads down to earn more minutes in future.

With our matches being so close together I had to write this page before we played Manchester City, one of the most difficult captain

opponents in the league. Now, just three days later, we play another challenging team; Brentford have looked good in their start to the season and we have had to turn our attention to them quickly.

After that is our first of two away trips to Newcastle, so there has been a lot of travel and some very good teams in a short space this season. I am pleased we have such a strong squad with a lot of options available on the bench. This is causing competition among the players because there are a lot of talented choices in each position, which increases standards and the fight to be named on the teamsheet.

I enjoyed the Villa game not just for the performance on the pitch but for the atmosphere within the stadium which was as loud as ever. Entertaining games like this always lift the crowd, but it is never better than at Selhurst Park.

Today, we have another match under the lights as we try to keep up a good start to the season.

Having you behind us all the way will help that.

Make some noise!

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chairman

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A warm welcome back for tonight’s match, as we also welcome the directors, staff, players and supporters of Brentford to Selhurst Park.

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’m penning these notes before our trip to the Etihad, but at the time of writing it’s been a great week or so of results for the club, with wins over Oxford United and Aston Villa for Patrick’s side, as well as victories for our Under-18s, a competitive draw for our Under-21s at Fulham and then a last gasp winner against Wolves on Friday. The women’s team also won their opener, so it was a great weekend all round.

Congratulations to our firstteam debutants Sam, Kaden and Killian at Oxford. I know each of them will be enormously proud of this achievement, but a special mention to Kaden who has risen through the Academy ranks having joined us as an eight-year-old.

It was extremely pleasing to learn that each member of last year’s group of secondyear scholars finished their Under-18 season with at least two A-level equivalent qualifications each, as well as a Level 3 Apprenticeship as a Sporting Excellence Professional.

Congratulations to each and every one of them, as well as the

staff at the Academy who deliver the comprehensive education programme for this group.

it is fantastic to see many of our players out on loan doing so well. it’s keeping Mark Bright and the staff extremely busy as they keep tabs on their progress on and off the field

Elsewhere, it is fantastic to see many of our players out on loan doing so well, with notable goals for Scott Banks, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Reece chairman

Hannam. With so many talented young players out on loan, it’s keeping Mark Bright and the staff extremely busy as they keep tabs on their progress on and off the field. But it really promising to have players performing at such a high level for some fantastic clubs in highly competitive divisions, and our Academy teams also performing well in their absence.

Good luck to each of them as they continue the season.

Patrick’s team put on a fantastic show against Villa – it really was a complete performance in an electric Selhurst atmosphere, and I very much hope we can build on it tonight. It was well documented that we had on paper, one of – if not the – toughest set of opening fixtures, but our four points from the result at Liverpool and Villa (at the time of writing) is really encouraging.

There is such positivity around the club at the moment on and off the pitch, and tonight I urge you to get behind Patrick’s team as you always do.

Up the Palace

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Sam Johnstone had the opportunity to show his worth to Palace fans when keeping a clean sheet on his debut against Oxford last week. Here, he talks through his career to date, explains his father’s impact and reveals how training with Edwin van der Sar affects a teenage prospect.

Interview: Will Robinson Words: Ben Mountain

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Once I’d gone into being a goalie, [Dad] was there to help and guide me in the right way, and that has lasted to this day main interview

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“I

just found it boring to watch football,” Sam Johnstone says baldly. It’s not the most standard answer for a professional footballer.

Johnstone is looking back at his introduction to the sport. As the son of a professional goalkeeper, Glenn, football was readily available to him. His brother, Max, would also become a professional in future years, but for this trio of Johnstone goalkeepers, football was refined to physical enjoyment.

“It was on the street, in the park, on the PlayStation,” explains (Sam) Johnstone, revealing that he didn’t follow a team or watch matches as a child. “I probably didn’t really get into football until I was seven- or eight-years-old, when I went to my first proper team back home in Preston.

“It helped with my dad having that background. He would do the sessions with me, training.

Weekends we’d spend in the park with my brothers, my dad, playing football, in goal, messing around but training – getting practice in.

[Playing] wasn’t pushed upon me or not pushed upon me.

Like many shot stoppers Johnstone began outfield, playing in defence and falling into goal while filling the vacant position on rotation one day. He enjoyed “jumping around and diving about,” so stayed between the sticks indefinitely.

But once he’d settled on a position football became a more serious pursuit. His family had their impact – in more than one way

“Once I’d gone into being a goalie, [Dad] was there to help and guide me in the right way, and that has lasted to this day. “[When I was first scouted] it was actually a scout that had scouted my dad when he was younger. It was pretty crazy. He is someone I still keep in touch with now, the scout [Colin Fairhurst].”

It helped with my dad having that background. He would do the sessions with me, training. Weekends we’d spend in the park with my brothers, my dad, playing football, in goal, messing around but training – getting practice in

Fairhurst offered Johnstone a trial with Manchester United, 30 miles south of his hometown Preston. “You obviously know how big Man United is,” the now-29year-old remembers of joining the club after it won four Premier League titles in five seasons. “It was huge. I remember my first session, I came off and was like: ‘Oh my days. These are so good.’

To be honest, even my age group then at 10-11, they’d been there since seven or eight. So I wasn’t a latecomer, I was still young, but for that group they’d been together and I had a lot of catching up to do and learning. They saw something in me that kept me there until 25.”

Sam Johnstone

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That’s a succinct way of covering 15 years, 10 loan spells to seven clubs, and the start of an England youth career.

At a young age United entrusted Johnstone with first-team training, and began his professional experience on loan early.

He recalls: “The goalie coach Eric Steele, I was 15/16 and he would, once or twice if the timing was right, allow me to go up and train with [Edwin] van der Sar, [Tomasz] Kuszczak, Ben Foster.

To do that at that age is an eyeopener. I was amazed by it. That was always good and they were always good with me.

“It is [intimidating] at that age. You want to do well in front of them and the coach, so it is. But I think I kind of liked that and it gets the best out of me.”

If Johnstone was training with big-name professionals at 15, he was also playing with stars of the future. His Academy teammates included Jesse Lingard, Michael Keane, Paul Pogba and Ravel Morrison – and future Palace man Zeki Fryers.

Perhaps unsurprisingly they won the FA Youth Cup in 2010/11, beating Sunderland 6-3 on aggregate in the final. Johnstone played both legs, calling the competition “massive”.

“That’s a great tournament at that age group. We had an unbelievable age. At that age there’s a big pressure on it because it’s important and a massive cup to win. We had some great experiences.

“We had a very good age group that was a pleasure to be with for many years. It’s good memories, good experiences, and something you look back on and don’t forget.”

From here Johnstone began his first loan spell, joining Oldham Athletic aged 18. It was to be the first of 10 such moves as the ‘keeper amassed 131 appearances drafted out to clubs across League One and the Championship.

We had a very good age group that was a pleasure to be with for many years. It’s good memories, good experiences, and something you look back on and don’t forget

“[There were] a lot of learning curves and playing in front of crowds – you need to get points on the board so you’re not relegated.

There’s a lot of different pressure there compared to academy football or reserve team football.

“The loans were good for me: I had promotion on there for my hometown club [Preston North End], played at Wembley, played in the Championship play-off final, all these experiences help you along the way.”

Johnstone had been thrown from success and protection in United’s youth system into the sort of football that sustains or Sam Johnstone

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It is [intimidating] at that age. You want to do well in front of them and the coach, so it is. But I think I kind of liked that and it gets the best out of me main interview

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I had promotion for my hometown club, played at Wembley, played in the play-off final main interview

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ends careers. His next step took him into a new scrap altogether: a relegation battle.

The ‘keeper joined his first permanent club in 2018 when putting pen to paper with West Bromwich Albion, helping them back to the Premier League at the second time of asking.

It’s hard because I hate losing and conceding goals, But on the other hand I was making some good saves, we got some valuable points at Liverpool away, City away, Man United at home Once there, Johnstone enjoyed a Player of the Season-winning campaign, but couldn’t prevent the Baggies from dropping back to the Championship in 2020/21.

“It’s hard because I hate losing and conceding goals,” he says. “But on the other hand I was making some good saves, we got some valuable points at Liverpool away, City away, Man United at home, against these big teams where I’d made saves.”

But Premier League football brings international recognition, and in March 2021 Johnstone earned his first England callup. Three months later he made his debut against Romania, and with three caps to his name was listed in Gareth Southgate’s Euro 2020 squad.

Sam Johnstone

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We push each other and that’s the way it is main interview

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He says adding to that collection is the next target, and that while the Premier League attracts callups, the England setup has changed under Southgate.

“It’s always an aim. It [being called-up] was an unbelievable feeling and, to be honest, I always said to myself I need to be in the Premier League to have a chance of going with England. I’d missed out on a few occasions.

“It shows that if you’re doing well and you’re good there’s a chance to be called up into the squad. Conor Gallagher while he was here gets into the squad along with the other two [Marc Guéhi and Tyrick Mitchell] and that’s great for them and Crystal Palace.

“It means everyone knows if they do well they have a chance of being called up into the England squad.

That’s a great thing, a great thing the manager has put out there because lads are hungry then to get called-up, do well for the club, benefit the club and then go with England.

“I was going down the long road to St George’s [Park, England’s training base] nervous. I knew everyone, the majority of the staff I knew, majority of the players I knew. It’s just that quality, the best players with England that you’re going to train with. I knew I would have to be on my game.

“Adrenaline takes you through that and I just needed the first one or two sessions out of the way to be in and fine. But… everyone welcomed me and was great.

It was brilliant and such a high standard to train with.”

For now Johnstone is focused on Palace, however, adding to his minutes against Oxford and competing in one of the league’s most competent goalkeeping trios.

With Jack Butland and Vicente Guaita already in place at the club Johnstone has his work cut out to secure a starting berth.

But like every ‘keeper he’s aware of the challenge, and willing to take it on.

It’s always an aim. It was an unbelievable feeling and, to be honest, I always said to myself I need to be in the Premier League to have a chance of going with England. I’d missed out on a few occasions

“You’re competing for one spot and, whoever plays, the rest have to be supportive and that’s the way it goes,” he says.

“Everyone knows that and we work together every day and it’s competitive. We push each other and that’s the way it is. We’re so used to being away from the outfield players but the other thing we’re used to is only one of us can play.”

From not watching football to joining England at the Euros, Sam Johnstone has had quite the journey already. If anyone’s prepped to challenge his teammates, it’s him Sam Johnstone

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the follow -up

Summer signing Sam Johnstone: Palace goalkeeper, England international, and the kind of bloke to fall asleep watching a film. Here, he insults the Programme Editor, fights a giant hypothetical duck and knocks the humble city break.

#34: Do you ever read the matchday programme?

#13: What’s the last thing you do before you go to bed at night?

No. [None taken. What do you do pre-match?] Just get warmed-up before you actually go out for the warm-up. My routine with what I do, what I drink – the programme, no, no, no. It would put me to sleep!

Look on my phone. I actually have a bad habit of leaving the TV on or my iPad and falling asleep to it.

Sometimes I’ll sleep all night, wake up in the morning and my iPad’s still on.

#42: Would you rather fight 20 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?

One horse-sized duck. Just one of them: just you and him, one on one.

Whereas I think if you had 20 little horses at you, no, I think you have no chance.

#45: What’s your idea of a perfect holiday?

With two kids I don’t think you can have a perfect holiday! No, I love just going away to a nice hotel, not too far a flight – six or seven hours max. I like being by the pool, missus and kids, out for food at night.

Exploring that way, through nice food and places to go. City breaks are not for me. the follow-up

#29: Who’s the hardest opponent you’ve played against?

That’s tough for a goalkeeper, but if you were playing against a [Christian] Benteke or Andy Carroll – for the physical side

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Worth a try?

Probably.

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Did you know?

Griffin Park was so named after the Griffin pub on the corner, not the other way around. It was built on an orchard owned by local brewery Fuller’s, whose logo is a Griffin and who famously operate out of the Griffin brewery in Chiswick.

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brentford Brentford enjoyed a strong start to 2022/23, winning their second match 4-0 against Manchester United. But defeat to Fulham will have rocked high spirits somewhat.

match preview A lot of pundits have tipped Brentford to be their dark horse of 22/23 as they seek to build on a 13th-place finish in their first Premier League campaign.

Thomas Frank’s men stunned against the Red Devils before the Cottagers defeat, when Fulham scored in the first and 90th-minute to steal three points.

It’s unlikely to have seriously affected the Bees and a League Cup win over Colchester United will have eased the nerves, so Brentford enter this game looking to leapfrog Palace in last season’s rankings.

The last two matches between these teams finished 0-0, but supporters can hope for a little more action this evening: these were the bottom 10's second- and thirdhighest scoring teams in 21/22.

Last season

Position Points Top scorer

Home

away

third

recent matches Opposition

most recent = bottom

score

h/a

position

1-0

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N/A

2-2

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9th

4-0

H

3rd

2-3

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8th

2-0

A

Second round

13th

Ivan Toney

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Toney has finished top scorer in Brentford’s last two campaigns, and netted twice in his first three this season.

Ivan Toney (12)

Most assists

Bryan Mbeumo (7)

Most passes

Christian Nørgaard (1,665)

opposition

Talisman

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last five √ palace

most recent = bottom

Keith Millen

fixture

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0

January 11th, 1964

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2

August 13th, 1977

5

1

August 16th, 1977

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August 21st, 2021

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Selhurst Park

Millen is something of a Brentford legend, having played well over 300 games for them.

He led Palace as a caretaker manager on three occasions between 2012-17, playing a crucial part in survival.

Griffin Park

Selhurst Park

Selhurst Park

February 12th, 2022 Brentford Community stadium

last time out

0-2 Tues Aug 23rd Colchester Community stadium

starting xi 22 T. Strakosha 33 F. Stevens 33

29 M. Bech Sørensen 13

27 V. Janelt 15

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M. Jørgensen 29

30 M. Roerslev

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F. Onyeka

26 13

15

24 M. Damsgaard 26 S. Baptiste

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23 K. Lewis-Potte 21

H. Dervisoglu

subs

2 8 10 11 14

A. Hickey M. Jensen J. Dasilva Y. Wissa S. Ghoddos

17 18 34 35

Boot in both camps

i. toney p. jansson m, Cox R. Trevitt

opposition

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01

28

02 03 Aaron Hickey

Rico Henry

POS DEFENDER

POS DEFENDER

NAT SCOTLAND

NAT ENGLAND

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05 David Raya

Ethan Pinnock

Pontus Jansson

POS GOALKEEPER

POS DEFENDER

POS DEFENDER

NAT SPAIN

NAT JAMAICA

NAT SWEDEN

91 saves

09 clean sheets

Age

26

Height

1.83m

Joined

July 6th, 2019

Debut

August 3rd, 2019 v Birmingham City

Raya became a Spain international this year when facing Albania in a friendly. He grew up in Barcelona as a Real Madrid fan, began his career with Catalan side Cornelià and then joined Blackburn Rovers in 2012. opposition

player profile

27 apps

career history:

Blackburn Rovers and Southport.

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20 30 Kristoffer Ajer

Mads Roerslev

POS DEFENDER

POS DEFENDER

NAT NORWAY

NAT DENMARK

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06 07 Christian Nørgaard

Sergi Canós

Ben Mee

POS MIDFIELDER

POS DEFENDER

NAT DENMARK

NAT SPAIN

NAT ENGLAND

player profile

POS MIDFIELDER

63

Age

32

Height

1.80m

Joined

July 22nd, 2022

Debut

August 7th, 2022 v Leicester City

career history:

Manchester City, Leicester City and Burnley.

clean sheets

220 apps

57% tackle success

Mee joined Brentford after a 10-year spell with Burnley. He was appointed an assistant coach when Sean Dyche was dismissed, and scored on his home debut for the Bees against Manchester United.

Internationally, he has played for England Under-21s. opposition

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10

14

Josh Dasilva

Saman Ghoddos

POS MIDFIELDER

POS MIDFIELDER

NAT ENGLAND

NAT IRAN

15

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Frank Onyeka

Shandon Baptiste

08 Mathias Jensen

POS MIDFIELDER

POS MIDFIELDER

NAT NIGERIA

NAT GRENADA

NAT DENMARK

player profile

POS MIDFIELDER

Age

26

Height

1.80m

Joined

July 10th, 2019

Debut

August 3rd, 2019 v Birmingham City

career history:

Nordsjælland and Celta Vigo.

34 apps

01 goals 03 assists

Jensen has enjoyed a remarkable start to 2022/23, scoring once and bagging two assists from three games. He moved to west London from Spanish outfit Celta Vigo in 2019 and has made 19 international appearances for Denmark.

opposition

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31

27

11

Vitaly Janelt

Yoane Wissa

POS MIDFIELDER

POS FORWARD

NAT GERMANY

NAT DR CONGO

21

19 Ivan Toney

Bryan Mbeumo

Halil Dervisoglu

POS FORWARD

POS FORWARD

POS FORWARD

NAT ENGLAND

NAT FRANCE

NAT TURKEY

07 Assists

14 goals

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Height

1.79m

Joined

August 31st, 2020

Debut

September 12th, 2020 v Birmingham City

Toney rose to prominence as a prolific striker after joining Brentford, having spent much of his career on loan at clubs across England.

His record of 49 goals from 93 appearances in west London is currently better than one every other game.

opposition

player profile

38 apps

Age

career history:

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stat pack The home side hasn’t lost any of the last seven league meetings between Crystal Palace and Brentford (W4 D3), with both Premier League games between the two last season ending goalless.

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Brentford are winless in their last four away league games against Palace (D2 L2), since a 2-0 victory in March 1957.

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428

Passes per match

376

34

shots

34

40

Possession %

41

04

goals conceded

05

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clean sheets

01

03

04

Tyrick Mitchell

Rico Henry

Passes per match

Passes per match

38 30 38 opposition

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It’s Tuesday evening, kick-off is ticking closer and you're first to the pub. Before long, hazy memories and almost-accurate stats will fill the air. Brush-up for your Brentford pre-match below.

Didn’t they once…

Close their academy. Brentford notably stopped operating a youth system in favour of the B-team approach more common before the introduction of the Elite Player Performance Plan.

With a data-first approach, they instead focused on signing 17-20-year-olds who had been released by other clubs or who competed abroad. They had success, too, producing the likes of Bournemouth’s Chris Mepham, Middlesbrough’s Marcus Forss and first-team defender Fin Stevens.

But it also meant the west Londoners lost a lot of talent as players left for new academies; one such departure was a certain Tyrick Mitchell.

the west Londoners lost a lot of talent as players left for new academies; one such departure was a certain Tyrick Mitchell

The Bees reopened their academy in 2022 and now field an Under-18 team.

Didn’t he once…

Make his transfer carbon neutral. Ben Mee joined Brentford from Burnley in July, and the centre-back decided to offset the carbon emissions produced with a donation to Carbon Neutral Britain, who will plant 20 trees a month and offset 15 tonnes of CO² per year – the average yearly output for a Briton is 12-14 tonnes.

“I'm conscious that transfers rack up lot of air miles and a lot of driving miles as well,” he said in a video on Twitter after signing. “So I'm looking to offset my emissions for this transfer.

I'm not perfect, but I want to do my bit.”

He won Burnley’s PFA Community Champion award in both 2018/19 and 2020/21.

Pub talk tidbit: The four pubs? Easy. The Griffin, The Princess Royal, The New Inn, The Brook – and, yes, I did them all pre-match. Twice. pub talk

They had success, too, producing the likes of Chris Mepham, Marcus Forss and first-team defender Fin Stevens

I was there for...

There arent’t many fans who’ll remember it, but Palace trumped Brentford 5-1 in the 1977 League Cup first round.

In those days the competition began with a two-legged first round, and Palace actually lost the opener 2-1 at Griffin Park. They made amends in style three days later but fell from the cup in the second round regardless.

Beyond that, the two teams played out a pair of 0-0 draws in 2021/22, and hadn’t faced off before then since the 77 rout. Not much conversation in that.

What’s the deal with...

‘The Bees’. Brentford’s seemingly unconnected nickname was borne

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a two-year stint with the wrong founding date (1888 instead of 1889), and the day astronomer Russell Grant claimed to have designed their 1994 version – which, seemingly, is unfounded.

Aren’t they...

near the start of their history, when a group of students from nearby Borough Road college came to support their friend, Joe Gettins, a centre-forward.

When they chanted the college’s mantra ‘Buck up, B’s’, (thought to be short for ‘Borough’), local journalists mistook the word for ‘Bees’, and the name has stuck since, with the club adding a bee to their crest in 1972.

As far as tenuous links to an animal go, Brentford’s isn’t bad. But it’s not quite as loose as Palace’s, whose eagle has been confused with a phoenix, and whose only initial connection was a Malcolm Allison whim.

Other bizarre quirks with Brentford and their badge include

Linked with F.C. Midtjylland.

Brentford and Danish club Midtjylland may have 700 miles between them, but the two sides are linked by Matthew Benham, a shared owner.

They have allowed players and staff to move between them, seeing the Danish media report Brentford results and the Bees’ following swell in Scandinavia.

But Brentford’s Danish connections don’t stop there, with Danish manager Thomas Frank having six Danes at his disposal

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too. This has been compared by some to Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Portuguese links, with the midlands club having a huge Spanish-speaking following due to consecutive Portuguese managers and a number of players

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Crystal Palace 1-0 Chelsea – March 29th, 2014 Palace took three points from top-of-the-table Chelsea through John Terry’s headed own goal, kick-starting a five-game winning run.

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doc brown Columnist Ben Bailey Smith gets deep

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Fran Kitching 42-43

Fran Kitching explains how to handle the Women’s Super League

Will Rose Performance coach Will Rose reveals how a ‘big brother’ approach drives success

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Seán Grehan Seán Grehan uncovers Palace’s Irish links

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doc brown Ben Bailey Smith, aka Doc Brown, does it all – acting, rapping, writing, directing, you name it. The multifaceted Palace fan is also a patron of Palace for Life Foundation. In each edition, he offers his unique take on the world in SE25.

THE DEEPEST BLUE (AND RED) So I’ve been thinking deeply about depth.

Well, not that deeply, because my intelligence levels are middling at best, but deeply enough to create a good opening line.

Depth, it seems, can be both positive and negative: with depth, you may find new, hitherto undiscovered levels of maturity, or sink so low you’ve hit rock bottom.

Take Manchester United. After their opening loss, just when we thought they couldn’t sink any lower, WHAM – a 4-0 drubbing against tonight’s opponents Brentford left them 20th. A week later, they dug deep and found a depth of spirit so strong they suddenly, remarkably put Liverpool to the sword.

Finding depth and plumbing the depths are two profoundly different things. Trust me, I’ve plumbed a few in my time. But I won’t go into depth on that.

The depth of time I’ve been on this planet means I can vaguely remember when the League Cup was sponsored simply by milk. Not Dairy Crest, Yeo Valley or Nestlé. Milk.

What a time to be alive. I mean, that’s like the Premier League being sponsored by meat.

“You mean the Richmond Sausages Premier League?”

“Nah, mate, just general meat.”

While I bounced along with 3,000 fellow Eagles high up in the south-east corner at Old Trafford having eye-witnessed “that” goal

by Heyyyy Darren Ambrose (Oo. Ah.), some horrible, self-defeating part of me knew we’d never beat Cardiff in the next round.

Why? Because Palace.

If cups didn’t have the letters D, Z and ideally S somewhere in their Ben Bailey Smith

The depth of time I’ve been on this planet means I can vaguely remember when the League Cup was sponsored simply by milk.

Not Dairy Crest, Yeo Valley or Nestlé. Milk. What a time to be alive title, I never held much hope. And anyway, the FA Cup is the knockout competition we have a bit of romance in, once in a blue moon.

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we Eagles dig deep. Deep down into the depths – in order to soar high.

Logically, that makes no sense at all. But this is Crystal Palace.

Defying logic is kind of our thing

Meeting an average United again at Wembley in 2016, stood behind the goal watching Jason Puncheon deliver, for a while I genuinely believed – but the stars didn’t quite align. We just didn’t have the layers or options they had in their squad. Even as recently as my lovely day out in the semis against Chelsea, even with much to look forward to given the team’s potential, we weren’t there yet.

But nothing has exposed our lack of depth quite like the Milk, Coca-Cola, Littlewoods, Rumbelows, Worthington, Capital One or (the catchiest for me) the Molson Coors/ Carling Cup. I sometimes forget we’re even in it, because our habit has generally been to get knocked out without scoring a goal. Fair enough, some might say (including me), a lot of the time there have been way more pressing issues elsewhere – staying up or getting promoted, for example. But a win is a win is a win.

They always feel good and they keep a positive vibe going.

This season, when we were drawn in the roll-off-the-tonguenicely Carabao Cup against a somewhat rejuvenated Oxford, a city where I have many good friends, they all text me variations on the theme of us coming a cropper to much amusement.

Normally I’d be quick to agree.

But something is happening at Palace. I look at our bench every game and think: ‘Ooh, give him a go. Give him a go. Him. And him!

No wait, him too!’ Thank you, five subs rule. Against Oxford we gave them all a go and more and, whisper it quietly, we looked like a Premier Ben Bailey Smith

nothing has exposed our lack of depth like the Milk, Coca-Cola, Littlewoods, Rumbelows, Worthington, Capital One or Carling Cup League outfit, biding its time before calmly administering the death knell late on. ‘Good lord,’ I thought, ‘we… have…. strength….. in...... depth.’ What better a moment to step tentatively from the physical to the spiritual: emotional depth.

A quote: “You have to earn the right to play and I feel like we did that today. The way we played against Liverpool, we had to keep that mentality going.”

That was Wilf speaking after the majestic win against Villa. I text a fellow Eagle before kick-off at Anfield. We both worried about the same thing: Wilf getting isolated and frustrated. We were both proved brilliantly wrong. Wilfried Zaha, our figurehead, has developed the sort of depth that mere mortals like me can only dream of. And to top it off, he now has two tiers of deep, deep depth around him.

And so collectively, we Eagles dig deep. Deep down into the depths – in order to soar high.

Logically, that makes no sense at all. But this is Crystal Palace.

Defying logic is kind of our thing.

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cpfc women Crystal Palace Women broke club records in 2021/22, and are looking to do the same this season. In each edition, we hear directly from one of the squad, with goalkeeper Fran Kitching explaining how Palace are prepped for the Women’s Super League.

Fran kitching Age

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Career highlights

Winning the Women’s Championship Golden Glove in 2020/21.

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Having represented Chelsea and Liverpool, Kitching has plenty of Women’s Super League experience – an asset that may well come in handy for the coming seasons.

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It was a tough call to leave my former club, Sheffield United. My dad’s a massive fan and it was my third stint with them after starting my career there, but as a 24-year-old goalkeeper I felt ready to kick-on and return to being fulltime. Crystal Palace is a great club to do that with.

While at United I worked under ex-Palace player Neil Redfearn. He’s an old-school coach and a father figure, with whom you get what you see: he tells you what he expects of you and then expects that to be delivered. But without people realising he also has quite a soft side – I was injured when I first moved back and he was there for me, knowing when a player needs an arm around them.

I spoke to staff and players before joining Palace and they told me how much of a family club it is. I wanted to feel settled and welcomed quickly and that’s exactly what happened – it feels like I’ve been here for years already.

I want to be a part of the individual and team goals at Palace, and help them earn promotion to the Women’s Super

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It was a tough call to leave my former club, Sheffield United. My dad’s a massive fan and it was my third stint with them after starting my career there, but as a 24-year-old goalkeeper I felt ready to kick-on and return to being full-time

League. The women’s team has support from the whole club and Chairman, which is amazing and pushes us on.

Although we signed 15 new players over summer, myself included, I didn’t know who’d joined until I turned up for the first day. I was shocked to see Rianna Dean, Chloe Peplow, Isabella Sibley and Holly Olding, who I’ve all played with before. We’re going for promotion so need a new environment and new players, but the ones who stayed from last season ensure we know what standards are expected from us.

With the investment we’ve been given, the Women’s Super League won’t be much of a step up. We’re training at a level I’ve not experienced at other clubs, and the off-pitch work in analysis and strength and conditioning is exactly what we need. The WSL is a lot more physical and quicker but the style we currently play means stepping up would be a quick transition, and we have players who’ve experienced that league before. We’re a WSL team in waiting this season.

Internationally I’ve represented England Under-20s and qualify for Scotland through my grandmother.

Having been part-time before I was never really in contention to play for England, but now I’m full-time again I’m aiming to get called-up for a camp. I’m open to doing that with either England or Scotland, because playing for any national team is an achievement and ups your game massively.

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Finally, a message to any fans considering supporting us in person this season. The difference between women and men’s football is that women’s is an interactive experience when you bring your kids down to watch. They can

With the investment we’ve been given, the Women’s Super League won’t be much of a step up.

We’re training at a level I’ve not experienced at other clubs, and the off-pitch work in analysis and strength and conditioning is exactly what we need interact with role models, so I do encourage anyone, especially those with children, to come down, meet us and meet the amazing personalities we have in this team.

Hopefully we’ll get some wins, clean sheets and plenty of goals along the way to light up your kids’ eyes. We’re going for promotion and need the support you can bring: be the 12th man, because we need your atmosphere to spur us on in 2022/23

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Will Rose

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academy Will Rose: performance coach We’re the first face they see on the way in and the last face they see on the way out, and we just connect the dots between the football. Our job is about making sure everything we do as a holistic department links up and drives not just results, but development.

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’m the Under-18s performance coach. I started here in summer 2020 and I’ve been doing this for eight seasons across various leagues, from internships and League Two all the way up to the Premier League.

A performance coach is a combination of the three disciplines: sports science – data, stats and numbers; strength and conditioning – gym, development programmes and load balance; and on the pitch – warm ups and coaching. In our Academy you have me in the Under18s, Joel Carter in the Under-21s, and others who do the role across the age groups.

Some clubs have a ‘siloed approach’ where one individual is responsible for each discipline, and I believe in some places that works – but it can also cause friction. I believe our system helps the players know that when they come to us there are no hierarchy issues – it’s just us looking after them and being responsible. It makes more sense.

We love 4-0 wins away at Villa, but at this age it’s still about development – the players are still

at a nurturing stage where they are growing mentally, physically, technically and tactically. Our responsibility isn’t necessarily to win every weekend, but to make sure they develop into the best

I believe our system helps the players know that when they come to us there are no hierarchy issues ¬– it’s just us looking after them and being responsible

player they can be – to move up to Paddy in the Under-21s and then start pushing for wins.

Jesurun Rak-Sakyi is a perfect example. He was smaller than the others in his scholar year, but if you look at him now he’s a completely Will Rose

different athlete – same with Maliq Cadogan, David Ozoh and Ademola Ola-Adebomi, those boys have really grown through the programme because they’ve given it 110%.

Our tagline for our role is ‘to be the bigger brother,’ because if they don’t trust us as a person, they can’t trust us in our job, and we can’t build the relationship we need to succeed. We approach the role like a bigger brother and give the players the opportunity to share problems on the pitch, off the pitch, in education – wherever it may be.

Jes and Tayo Adaramola were in my first group here. They’re great kids, great young men. You do the role to see them succeed. You get into this because you think you want to be in a football environment, because you love the sport, but you stay in it – especially in Academy football – to see people succeed.

When Jes popped up with a goal for Charlton on loan a few weeks ago, I was at home and I did celebrate. It’s the best thing.

You’ve played a tiny, tiny part in that journey and it’s great to see them fulfil the potential they have

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over the road Seán Grehan

Geting to know Seán Grehan

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Highlights so far

Making his professional debut at 17 for Bohemians in 2021/22.

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Grehan is a ball-playing centre-back who isn’t afraid to get stuck in. He has featured for Republic of Ireland at Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 level.

Seán Grehan

Leaving home and travelling hundreds of miles to a different country is part and parcel for many footballers throughout their careers, but doing so as a teenager is a prospect not many face.

A then-17-year-old Seán Grehan had to do exactly that. He became one in a succession to tread the path from Dublin to south London, and though he’d made a 330-mile journey and crossed the Irish Sea, remarkably he found himself “at home.”

“It helps [to have Irish players here], they make you feel like you’re at home,” he said after signing.

“When I first came here I spoke to Paddy McCarthy and he made me feel at home too. It’s good to hear the Dublin accent!

“It’s a different challenge [moving to England]. Over here the facilities are unreal, there's nothing like this back home.”

Palace’s Academy has a number of Irish players throughout, including the likes of Jake O’Brien, Killian Phillips and Tayo Adaramola – who recently secured a loan move to Championship side Coventry City.

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Seán is a talented defender who has impressed on trial and has now secured a well-deserved place at the Academy Gary Issott Academy Director

“Killian Phillips is a local lad to me, he lived close to me back home. I get on well with him and he looks after me when I’m here,” Grehan said. “Jake’s done really well – I wouldn’t have known him [when I was younger] as he’s from Cork, but he’s doing so well here.”

Grehan initially impressed as a trialist towards the end of the 2021/22 campaign, featuring in the Under-18s’ final two games of the season and keeping a clean sheet in the process. He signed a well-earned two-year pro deal with the club in summer, though this was not the first time he’s put pen to paper on a professional contract.

“I signed my pro contract [with Bohemians F.C.] in January 2021. I was 17. I was delighted at the time – it was great, especially going from your little schoolboy club [St Kevin’s Boys] and onto the team that they’re linked with, and then going and playing and training with their first-team.

“I played a cup game with the [Bohemians] first-team, it was a good experience. It's a different level, men’s football, compared to younger age group football.

We had a few trips in Europe as well… We played PAOK in Greece [for Europa League Qualification].

I didn’t play, but it was a great experience to be around.”

The self-described “ballplaying centre-back” played both his trial games at Palace and his first professional game in Ireland at the heart of the defence, and Seán Grehan

relishes the challenge in the season ahead.

“I like to be on the ball, I like to play passes – long diagonals and stuff like that. I like defending as well; us Irish lads like to get stuck in! Obviously as

It helps [to have Irish players here], they make you feel like you’re at home.

When I first came here I spoke to Paddy McCarthy and he made me feel at home too.

It’s good to hear the Dublin accent!

a centre-half you have to focus on your defending first, but to get to the next level you have to be good on the ball these days.

“I can’t wait to get going this season, and start playing matches again to hopefully show the club what I can do.”

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APSLEY

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Keeping you posted on all things south London. On the next page, we meet Palace fan and halfdeaf singer James Vickery, who explains why he donned the 97 kit in his most popular video yet.

Joshua Buatsi Born in Accra, Ghana, Buatsi and his family moved to Thornton Heath and the boxer began his career with South Norwood Victory club. He teamed up with Palace for Life Foundation and Aaron Wan-Bissaka to promote ‘gloves not guns’ in 2018.

West Norwood – various Sunday, September 4th This volunteer-run monthly event sees 5,000 locals operate 100+ market stalls across West Norwood, with food, handmade goods, essentials and entertainment all on offer. Wander from Tulse Hill to West Norwood station via Chatsworth Way, Norwood High Street and Devane Way.

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Readers should be aware of mildly distressing medical descriptions and one instance of offensive language in the below piece.

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ou’re always the underdog,” says James Vickery of a childhood surrounded by United, Chelsea and Liverpool fans. “I feel like I’ve carried that in life, rooting for the underdog.”

It’s not a bad trait to have for a singer who’s half deaf.

As a Crystal Palace fan from Sutton growing up in the 90s and early 00s, life was always going to be tough. But it became all the more difficult when Vickery developed a cholesteatoma benign tumour, or, in his words, “a flesh-eating virus heading towards my brain.”

His family didn’t know it at the time, but while Vickery spent his first few years in and out of hospital to treat ear infections, the tumour was growing steadily closer to his brain. Once it was diagnosed, he was rushed into surgery within days. Weeks or months later would have been too late.

To remove his tumour surgeons had to cut inside Vickery’s ear and remove his drum, rendering him half deaf.

“I was a very shy kid,” the singer says over a video call, pointing at his AirPod and joking “I don’t even know why I’ve got this on.”

“I had to get vocal coaching lessons and vocal therapy

lessons because I couldn’t sense how loud I was speaking.”

In therapy sessions Vickery discovered his ability to sing, and over time developed his skills and started to perform. He began in the Sutton Cricket Club – “where the whole crowd was my friends” – and made pocket money doing “restaurants in Walton-onThames and Tadworth, in Italian restaurants signing Frank Sinatra.”

In November he’ll launch his EP Sheet Music, and has had his songs streamed over 100,000,000 times.

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I want to create my own name – I don’t want to be something else.

Maybe that’s being a Palace fan; I’ve always liked being the underdog. I’ve always liked doing my own thing and i don’t get swept up

But there were other, easier paths to follow. Most half-deaf children would look past singing as a career, and having made it most would follow their labels’ instructions: chasing airtime and hits. Not the underdog.

“It was very apparent early on they wanted to make me the next [pop singer] Sam Smith because I was a white, chubby,

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soulful guy,” Vickery says. “But that was the only comparison – our music is so different.

“I want to create my own name – I don’t want to be something else. Maybe that’s being a Palace fan; I’ve always liked being the underdog. I’ve always liked doing my own thing and I don’t get swept up.”

Vickery doing his own thing brought his name to the fore with fellow Palace fans last year. When his then-record label told him they’d exhausted the music video budget, the singer took matters into his own hands, grabbing a friend and a camera – and a Palace shirt.

In the subsequent video for You Comfort Me, Vickery manages a one-shot stroll through Primrose Hill – eye-catchingly donning the 1997 TDK kit.

“It wasn’t pre-planned,” he explains. “I’d love to say it was

a really good marketing scheme but, bro, I’m just a Palace fan.

“I’m proud to be a Palace fan, south London born and raised… all the Palace fans loved it. It’s the vintage kit that was rereleased, so it looked f------ sick.

“It’s very authentic to me, hence wearing a Palace shirt in the video. You Comfort Me is a feel-good song and I wrote that when it was lockdown one and it was grim… I was just trying to write something to make me feel good while I was going out in the sun alone.”

Vickery’s father is a Welshman with a “proper south London accent,” raised three roads from Selhurst Park. His mother’s side of the family are West Ham fans from Essex.

“I didn’t have any other Palace friends,” he remembers of his childhood. “When it did come off – random wins, beating Man United in the cup, promotion, getting to the play-offs from nothing – it was so much more worthwhile.

That’s why I’m a Palace fan.”

So Vickery started attending games in 2001 (his first was a 0-2 loss to Wolves), walked out as a mascot with the late Andrejs Rubins, and swooned over customer James McArthur while working at a cinema in Epsom. But through his career he also sang at the club’s End of Season Awards and is listened to by thousands of his fellow fans.

“I feel like everybody’s dad wants their son to be a SOUTH OF THE RIVER

I’m proud to be a Palace fan, south London born and raised… all the Palace fans loved it.

It’s the vintage kit that was re-released

footballer,” he says. “I was never going to be a footballer, so my dad’s dream of me playing for Crystal Palace never prospered.

But this is the closest we can do.”

Not bad for an underdog

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THROUGH THE LENS

LUKA MILIVOJEVIC v OXFORD UNITED

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through the lens

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The Premier League celebrates its 30th anniversary this season, with Palace there at the start in 1992/93 and still there today – with a few detours along the way.

Here, we break down the club’s Premier League spells, letter by letter.

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Comebacks, clean sheets and Crystanbul

ew things in life can provide the same rollercoaster of emotion that football can – and none in such a short space of time. How often have we shared a gloomy pint at half-time after a torrid first 45 minutes only to see the game turned on its head soon after? Does anything send supporters home quite like that?

The comeback is something Crystal Palace have made a name for during their time in the Premier League.

Just two years after promotion from the Championship and with survival still at the forefront of everyone’s mind, Palace were without a win in eight when they welcomed Tottenham Hotspur to Selhurst Park. After Harry Kane opened the scoring in the secondhalf, the south Londoners kicked into action and turned the game around to secure three vital points.

A week later the situation was all the more dire, with Palace two goals down within 16 minutes at Turf Moor. But Burnley hadn’t counted on Dwight Gayle and Jason Puncheon, who hauled Palace level before the former smashed home a last-gasp winner to make it two comeback victories on the spin – and the Eagles’ first comeback from two goals down in Premier League history.

Alan Pardew’s side were on a hat-trick, and they delivered: in an FA Cup tie a few days later they came from behind to beat Southampton.

Eighteen months later and the situation was very different.

Looking for a third straight victory, Palace travelled to the Stadium of Light to take on Sunderland.

Jermain Defoe’s brace saw them two goals behind once again, but Joe Ledley hit back immediately. abcd epl

With the clock ticking down, James McArthur levelled before Christian Benteke – is their anyone calmer? – scored an injury time winner to send Palace into seventh.

But when it comes to comebacks, there can only be one winner.

Since the Premier League was founded in 1992, over 11,640 matches have taken place. On only 23 occasions has a side

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come back from three or more goals down to claim a result – or if you prefer, it happens less than 0.2% of the time. When the stakes were highest, Crystal Palace added their own special evening to this exclusive list.

The Eagles were not hosting any team, but a Luis Suárezinspired Liverpool chasing the league title. To most onlookers, the night was going as expected when Brendan Rodgers’ side took a three-goal lead in the second-half.

But the Selhurst Park faithful knew from experience that anything was possible, and roared on by a raucous Holmesdale Palace fought back via a long-range Damien Delaney effort and a Dwight Gayle brace.

The comeback took just nine minutes, still the second-fastest

recovery from three goals down in Premier League history. It was a fitting end to a dramatic first season back in the top-flight – the Eagles had been relegation favourites after nine defeats in their opening 10 games.

Nicknamed ‘Crystanbul’, the match was recently voted by Palace supporters as their greatest game in Premier League history.

A dramatic comeback – is there any better feeling?

clean sheets Signing two young centre-backs and promoting an Academy player to first-choice full-back may not be the orthodox way to organise a Premier League back four – but for Patrick Vieira last season, it worked a treat.

Cahill from the corner After an illustrious career at Chelsea, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League titles – as well as earning 61 England caps – Gary Cahill arrived in south London.

For two seasons, he provided valuable defensive solidity and know-how as Roy Hodgson consolidated Palace’s status as Premier League regulars.

It was some time before he notched his first and only goal for the club however: it came from a corner, with Cahill rising highest to nod home at St James’ Park as the Eagles completed yet another comeback.

“It’s embarrassing – it’s been a long time coming!” he quipped after the game. The only shame was that the away fans weren’t there to celebrate with him.

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New arrivals Joachim Andersen and Marc Guéhi took south London by storm, starting together 35 times last season and helping Palace match their Premier League record for clean sheets in a season.

They were assisted by Tyrick Mitchell, who stepped up to first-choice left-back after Patrick van Aanholt’s departure and missed just two league games throughout the entire campaign.

Indeed, Vieira’s side kept six home clean sheets to finish the season, including games against Manchester City, United and Arsenal. At just 21-years-old, Guéhi was also the youngest captain in the Premier League ahead of Arsenal’s Martin Ødegaard. He was also the youngest Palace skipper since their return to the top-flight

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ian king

Having been on the brink of collapse in 2010, Crystal Palace earned promotion back to the Premier League 10 years ago this season. Here, Club Historian Ian King tells the story of a dramatic campaign – with a little help from the stars of When Eagles Dare.

Friday, August 24th August 24th, 2012 was a busy day for Crystal Palace. Defender Darcy Blake joined from Cardiff City and the rumours surrounding Yannick Bolasie proved to be true as he was prised away from Bristol City.

However most surprising was the acquisition of Brazilian midfielder André Moritz, who was expected to join Rangers until he rejected the terms of a trial. On his way back to London, from where he would fly home to Brazil, Moritz was alerted to Palace’s interest and decided to chance his hand.

He recalls: “There is a saying in Brazil: ‘If I’m wet already, why am I scared of the rain?’ I was already in London, I already had a few days to change my flight – so, okay, I’ll turn up at the training ground and show them what I can do.”

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All three new players featured in this fixture on Teesside with Blake at right-back in a defence that showed its frailties by conceding from set pieces each side of the break. Eleven minutes into the second-half and just four minutes after Boro’s second goal Palace received a lifeline when Jermaine Easter netted a penalty he’d won. Bolasie had shown some eye-catching trickery on both wings until being withdrawn with 12 minutes left, and Moritz came on after an hour. Despite their involvement, an equaliser was never truly on the cards.

Three consecutive league defeats left Palace bottom of the table, below Peterborough, while Blackpool led the way in first place.

Manager Dougie Freedman opted to play a younger side for this clash, bringing in Kyle De Silva and Kwesi Appiah, but again Palace failed to clear their lines.

They fell behind after just 72 seconds before Preston handed out more misery 14 minutes later. In a rare positive Aaron Wilbraham claimed his first Palace goal by steering home a close-range effort, but four minutes before half-time the Lilywhites regained their two-goal advantage. Moritz came on for the second-half but worse was to follow on the hour mark with Preston’s fourth goal. Palace exited the League Cup. Today De Silva represents Sevenoaks Town and Appiah plays for Crawley.

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September 1st: Palace 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday -

player in focus

On transfer deadline day 24 hours earlier Palace were again in business: defender Damien Delaney was about to give up football and return to Ireland when Freedman called.

An air of unrest began to filter around Selhurst Park but Glenn Murray helped to ease the tension: declared fit to take his place in attack, he scored after just 29 seconds against Sheffield Wednesday. Moritz started a game for the first time and Delaney partnered Peter Ramage in defence. However the Owls should have been on level terms at the break, and soon achieved parity in the 50th-minute as Palace conceded yet another goal from a corner. But the real talking point came when the referee awarded a Palace penalty only to change his mind after consulting a linesman.

With supporters appalled, the players were galvanised enough for Murray to poke home a fizzing cross from Zaha and make Wednesday surrender an 18-match unbeaten run to a hitherto point-less team.

The Eagles moved off the bottom but were still in the relegation places. They would soon emphatically address this

BORN: October 21st, 1988 – Oslo, Norway

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jonathan parr

APPEARANCES: 101 GOALS: 2 Parr joined Palace in summer 2011 from Norwegian club Aalesund and immediately became a fans’ favourite with his work ethic and runs down the left, earning the 11/12 Player of the Season award.

On the club’s return to the Premier League Parr’s appearances were restricted by injury and in July 2014 he signed for Ipswich Town. Earlier this year he announced his retirement.

Coming to Palace was a changing-life moment for me… as a man, as a player, today, who I am.

I’m grateful for that.

Yannick Bolasie

august 31st

september 1st

Damien Delaney joins

Palace record their first win: 2-1 √ Sheffield Wednesday

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from the

Times have changed over Crystal Palace’s rich and storied history. In each edition, we dust off the archive and reprint a story from one of the club’s historical programmes. This week, we recall the days of Palace’s reserve team – with features from then-reserve team manager Kit Symons.

August 6th, 2005: crystal palace √ luton town Even though results are important Reserve Manager Kit Symons feels they are secondary to the real purpose of second-team football: namely to assist in the recuperation of injured first-team players and develop the careers of some of the younger academy graduates.

He said: “The role of the reserve team manager is two-fold really: to get first-team players match-fit or help them back from injury; and then also to develop some of the younger players. Obviously the results do matter, but they’re not as important as the first two aims.

“So in some ways it makes my job a little easier if the emphasis isn’t so much on picking up three points. There’s not the same stress on, for instance, working on the opposition’s free-kicks as there would be for a first-team game. That allows me to concentrate more on the From the Archive

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performances of our own players.

The job of the reserves is to improve the performances of the players across the board.”

By not knowing which or even how many first-teamers he will have at his disposal from one week to the next, Symons’ job is necessarily made all the more difficult. But the uncertainty can also have its advantages, as he explained: “Sometimes players are asked to play out of position, which can help in their development and reading of the game, particularly with the younger ones.

“For example Ryan Hall played in central midfield for us against Crawley, even though he’s normally a leftsided player, and potentially a very good one at that. But he’ll benefit from the experience.”

Hall is certainly one of the younger crop of players to look out for this season, as is Arron Fray, who impressed on the club’s pre-season tour of Germany and the subsequent friendly against Inter Milan.

Symons felt the tour went particularly well, and will have served as a valuable lesson to some of the players on the fringes of the first team, like Fray.

He said: “It was a very good tour. The two games went well and the training was excellent.

Most of the youngsters had a run out, with Arron perhaps the biggest plus to come out of the whole tour. It maybe even came as a surprise to some

people, perhaps even to the lad himself, but he certainly took his chance with both hands when it came along.”

April 15th, 2006: crystal palace √ crewe alexandra We got a good result against Spurs in our first game at Bromley a few weeks ago as we drew 1-1. Spurs have been crowned champions of the league now and they’ve put out a very experienced team all season. Danny Murphy scored for them just before half-time but we held firm and got a well deserved equaliser five minutes from from time as Glenn Wilson headed in from a corner.

We had some experienced lads out in Jon Macken and Danny Granville and they both performed well. It’s been very pleasing this season when the experienced lads have come into the team because they’ve all equipped themselves very well and gone into the games with the right attitude, so I’ve been delighted with their performances.

I must give a special mention to our midfield against Spurs as we played three youngsters in Anthony Straker, Tom Welch and Lewwis Spence. They were up against some excellent and experienced played in the likes of Murphy and Tom Huddleston.

It was a great experience for them and it was particularly pleasing as all three of our boys are just returning from injury.

From the Archive

Top reserve appearances 2005/06 22; Lewis Grabban. 20; Glenn Wilson. 18; Arron Fray. 14; Tommy Black, Julian Speroni, Anthony Straker. 13; Ryan Hall. 12; Phil Starkey. 11; Wayne Andrews, Tyrone Berry. 10; Danny Granville.

9; Mark Hudson, Lewwis Spence, Sam Togwell, Rhoys Wiggins. 8; Tom Welch. 7; James Dayton, Eero Peltonen. 6; David Wilkinson. 5; Mikele Leigertwood, Jon Macken, Marco Reich, Moses Swaibu. 4; Wesley Beckles, Anthony Danze, Matthew Fish, Ben Kudjodi, Tony Popovic, Aki Riihilahti. 3; Rikki Banks, Gary Borrowdale, Lee Hills, Jerahl Hughes, Tom Lyons, Taku Watanabe. 2; Michael Kamara, Nathan Peprah-Annan, Charlie Sheringham, Nathan Simpson.

1; Jermaine Beckford, Danny Butterfield, Dougie Freedman, Jack Palmer, Reuben Reid, Osman Sesay, Tom Soares

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Brentford are one of a few clubs to operate with a B team today. Notable names from Palace’s reserves in 2005/06 include Michael Kamara, who now works with the Academy, Charlie Sheringham (Teddy’s son who represented Crystal Palace Baltimore), and Jermaine Beckford, who trialed with the club before joining Leeds United.

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palace for life

Refugees and young south Londoners see Palace in action at Selhurst To help engage in our community work, last month Palace for Life handed out over 300 free tickets to young south Londoners across our programmes and partners for Crystal Palace’s final pre-season game against Montpellier.

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ver 300 tickets to Palace’s final pre-season game against Montpellier were handed out to participants on our Holiday Activities and Food programme, run for those on free school meals in Croydon and Bromley, as well as Ukrainian participants from our refugee sessions.

Tickets were also given to those on our social mobility programme, GAME ON!, which helps young people aged 16-24 to get into education or employment; as well as on our Chances programme, which focuses on engaging children and young people by using sport and other activities to help them reintegrate or re-engage with education, employment and other positive pathways; and our partners P4YE, Mainzworld and Legacy Youth Zone and the Bromley Children and Families Forum.

All who took up the offer had the chance to watch Palace nearly a week before Arsenal made the short trip to south London for the opening Premier League fixture of 2022/2023. The hosts comfortably

beat Montpellier 4-2 thanks to goals from Wilfried Zaha, Marc Guéhi and Odsonne Edouard (two).

The Croydon Youth Offending Service, a partner of Palace for Life, were given tickets to share with young people. One of their officers said: “Thank you for giving my young person [Tyler] the opportunity to attend. His mother was happy when the tickets were given to her.

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“The third ticket was also used as Tyler brought along a friend, and both boys... had a great time. So many young people pass the stadium daily but have probably never entered one, so if we can facilitate that for them and their families it would be a great experience.”

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are determined to make sure that young people in our community are given every opportunity to succeed.

A huge way of doing that is using the power of Crystal Palace, Selhurst Park and the club’s first-team as a way of getting young people engaged, aware and inspired by the work done to support and improve their lives.

So many young people pass the stadium daily but have probably never entered one, so if we can facilitate that for them and their families it would be a great experience

This initiative supports Palace for Life’s flagship fundraising campaign, Made in South London, which aims to raise £1 million over the next three years to help us continue to transform young south Londoners’ lives.

Palace for Life would also like to extend a huge thank you to our club, Crystal Palace, for supplying the tickets.

If you would like to donate to the Made in South London campaign, please head to palaceforlife.org

Support Palace for Life in our mission to raise £1 million to help us transform thousands of more young south Londoners’ lives.

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McJedley, Wright and Bright, Zaha and Bolasie. Palace’s history is full of players who’ve formed memorable partnerships. Here, we look at arguably the most solid – and easily the best named.

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n August 1984, in a suburb in south-western Sydney, Michael John Jedinak was born, quickly to become known by his nickname: Mile. Six years later, and more than 10,000 miles away in Cardiff, a young boy called Joe was about to kick his first football. In Glasgow, two-year-old James was ready to do the same.

There are limited sets of consequences and circumstances that would cause these three to meet – but meet they did.

On deadline day in September 2014, the foundations of ‘McJedley’ were laid.

The Crystal Palace trio that was to thrive in midfield in south London for two years was, of course, formed of Wales’ Joe Ledley, Scotland’s James McArthur and Australia’s Mile Jedinak.

All three were established internationals. Jedinak made his debut for Australia in 2008, and featured in the 2010 World Cup opener against Germany; his leadership skills at club level soon translated to the national side, and as captain he guided his country to the 2014 tournament in Brazil. He completed a hat-trick of World Cup appearances at Russia 2018.

If Jedinak shone on the national stage, Ledley was present for what is perhaps Welsh football’s finest hour. After suffering a broken leg during the 2015/16 season, he raced back to fitness and played in all six games as the Red Dragons

fought to the semi-finals of the European Championships, beating favourites Belgium along the way.

As for McArthur, there was to be no fairytale international tournament for Scotland. But still he represented the country with pride, collecting 29 caps.

One-hundred-and-eigthyeight international caps between them – it’s not a bad record. That said, the McJedley partnership is remembered in south London not because of their stellar careers elsewhere, but their connection at Selhurst Park.

Even if it was only brief.

Jedinak was already a hero in south London when his fellow midfielders arrived. He had been the heartbeat of the ON ROTATION

side that stormed to an unlikely promotion in 2013, and was joined

by Ledley in January 2014.

After Palace took one point from their first three games in the 2014/15 season, the McJedley partnership formed when McArthur arrived from Wigan Athletic. He had already enjoyed some career in English football, winning the FA Cup in 2013 against Manchester City.

But keeping Palace in the Premier League looked to be a difficult task. Tony Pulis had resigned 48 hours before the start of the season, and Neil Warnock would only last until December before Alan Pardew took over.

McJedley played together 15 times in that Premier

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League season as Palace defied all expectations to secure a 10th-place finish.

Three different managers?

That’s a challenge. Three central midfielders? That works just fine.

The partnership formed a remarkably strong line in Palace’s midfield: three popular, bearded hard men breaking down attack after attack and allowing the likes of Wilfried Zaha, Yannick Bolasie and Jason Puncheon to push on.

“Yeah, I knew we had been named that,” Ledley laughed in 2020. “Macca was a great addition, not just as a player but as a person.

Such a great character.

“It was just a really good trio. Jedinak sitting deeper and doing all his defensive work, and then me on the left and Macca on the right. I really enjoyed playing in that midfield.”

The pièce de résistance was surely the 2015/16 season – the second and final year of McJedley.

The Eagles’ Premier League

campaign was a tough one despite a strong start that saw them in fifth on Boxing Day, but a 13-game winless run after Christmas meant they survived by just three points.

It was just a really good trio. Jedinak sitting deeper and doing all his defensive work, and then me on the left and Macca on the right. I really enjoyed playing in that midfield In the FA Cup, however, they made waves. Their run to the final was hardly the easiest, seeing off Southampton, Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur in the

first three rounds. Jedinak and Ledley played together until the quarter-finals, before McArthur stepped up at Wembley.

Palace beat Watford in the semi-finals, facing Manchester United in the showpiece final for the first time since 1990.

It ended in heartbreak, but the south Londoners had defied all the odds just by being there.

That was to be Jedinak’s penultimate match for the club, moving to Aston Villa at the start of the following season.

McJedley was no more, but Ledley and McArthur played on together for one more campaign, starting 17 games alongside one another in 2016/17.

The partnership may not have lasted long, or even have appeared much while it was possible, but for those matches that required a steely midfield triumvirate, Palace had the perfect combination.

It helps, of course, that it had a legacy-ensuring nickname

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The page for Palace supporters: taking your comments from the terraces into the programme. This week, we welcome today’s mascots, take a few highlights from Palace Twitter, and as ever print your messages.

Small world! @ABeck2284

August 23rd, 2022

On a bus in Oxford, and two random Americans going to the @CPFC match. 1 from LA and 1 from NYC, and me the Texan! @holmesdaleUSA

RUBY RAISON

DYLAN SMITH

AGE:

AGE:

12

SCORE PREDICTION:

2-1

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SCORE PREDICTION:

3-1

A great spot from this supporter. @abjekt

August 18th, 2022

Going through old programmes and who would have thought in April 2011 that both the guys on the cover would be in our first team, getting a draw at Anfield, in 2022? #cpfc

Email us on programme@cpfc.co.uk with a message of no more than 200 words with a (printable) opinion or story.

Want to feature as a mascot? Email liam.connery@cpfc.co.uk.

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Wishing Andy Holloway a fantastic 72nd birthday! Lots of love.

Christine, Lisa, Ian, Steve, Charlotte and all the grandchildren xxxx My son Aidan (age 8) was so happy when his nanny knitted his much loved teddy bear in a Crystal Palace outfit!

Lifelong Palace supporter, Allen Larcombe, sadly passed away on 13th August, aged 79. His first game was in 1950 and he was a regular for over 70 years – he even trialed for CPFC in 1959. His CPFC legacy lives on through children, Alex and Suzie, and grandsons Nathan and Max.

Happy 12th Birthday to our wonderful son Kayan. Lots of love Dad, Mum and lil bro Riyun x

Please welcome to the Palace family Blake Wilfried Grice, born 2nd August. In the photo Blake is held by big brother Harrison with proud Dad Matt behind. Next to Matt is brother Dan, with his son Zac and friend Jack. They all like the 1861 kit!

Lifelong and avid Palace supporter and season ticket holder Steve Parrianen recently passed away unexpectedly aged 54. Born in Wallington, Steve moved to Hertfordshire in the 1990’s but was a regular back at Selhurst Park every season. Steve leaves his wife Sally and daughters Lucy and Zoe. 18 years ago Steve founded a local team, the Cheshunt Eagles, for whom the ‘Skipper’ Steve made 582 appearances.

Forever an Eagle he will be dearly missed by his family and friends.

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Nick Munting sadly passed away recently after a short battle with bowel cancer. He worked as a chef in the House of Commons for 30 years and was awarded an MBE eight years ago for his services to Parliament and local schools in the Croydon area. Born in Thornton Heath in 1967 and has been a Palace fan ever since.

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Sam Johnstone and a horse-sized duck, Russell Grant the inaccurate astronomer, and a half-deaf singer who won’t be called Sam Smith.

Catch-up on what you might have missed in this edition, prep for the next away trip and pit your wits against Brighty below.

did you spot?

quote of the week “The depth of time I’ve been on this planet means I can vaguely remember when the League Cup was sponsored simply by milk. Not Dairy Crest, Yeo Valley or Nestlé.

Milk. What a time to be alive. I mean, that’s like the Premier League being sponsored by meat.”

The elephant on Page 65. Find out thisSmith one paraded around Ben why Bailey Selhurst Park in the 1990s.

Teddy Sheringham’s son pop-up for the reserve team on Page 58.

Joonas Kolkka Finnish winger Joonas Kolkka played for Palace in the mid-00s. After retiring he worked with PSV Eindhoven for 10 years, and now represents training company FootballEvents in his home country.

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next up: newcastle On Saturday Palace travel up north to St James’ Park for the first of two trips this season. If you’re going to be up in the gods read on.

Travel: Despite its distance, St James’ Park is relatively straightforward to reach from London. Trains take roughly three hours from Kings Cross to Newcastle Central station, which is a 10-minute walk from the stadium.

Pre-match: Newcastle has more pubs than you could shake a proverbial stick at. Most of those closest to the stadium are for home fans only, but in the city centre the Bridge Tavern provides an excellent option right on the River Tyne.

BEAT BRIGHTY In each edition, club icon Mark Bright calls it how he sees it and predicts scores from the day’s football.

See how you fare and try to Beat Brighty!

Scoring: One point for every correct result, three for a correct scoreline.

Brighty

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2-2 1-2 2-1 1-1 total Manage to Beat Brighty? Keep track of your total score above!

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Best memory: Palace and Newcastle played out a gripping 3-3 draw at St James’ in August 2014, won

by Wilfried Zaha in the 90th minute upon his return to the club.

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team stats: women / U21s / U18s Isabella Sibley Sibley scored Palace’s first goal of the season with a poacher’s effort against London City.

John-Kymani Gordon Gordon has got off to a flying start, bagging four from four.

Junior Dixon Dixon has also begun in fine form, netting three times from his first two.

Home fixture Away fixture Cup fixture (Crystal Palace score shown first)

AUGUST Sun 21

London City Lionesses

Sat 27

Coventry United

SEPTEMBER Sun 11

Birmingham City

Sun 18

Southampton

Sun 25

Blackburn Rovers

OCTOBER Sun 16

Sunderland

Sun 23

Bristol City

Sun 30

Durham

NOVEMBER Sun 6

Sheffield United

Sun 20

Charlton Athletic

DECEMBER Sun 4

Lewes

JANUARY Sun 15

London City Lionesses

Sun 22

Coventry United

FEBRUARY Sun 5

Southampton

Sun 12

Durham

MARCH Sun 5

Bristol City

Sun 12

Sheffield United

Sun 26

Blackburn Rovers

APRIL Sun 2

Sunderland

Sun 16

Birmingham City

Sun 23

Lewes

Sun 30

Charlton Athletic

W 1-0

AUGUST Mon 8 Brighton & Hove Albion Fri 12 Manchester United Fri 19 Fulham Fri 26 Wolves Tue 30 Swindon Town SEPTEMBER Sat 3 Tottenham Hotpsur Sat 10 Blackburn Rovers Fri 16 Chelsea OCTOBER Sat 1 West Ham United Tue 4 Bristol Rovers Sun 9 Everton Sat 15 Liverpool Tue 18 Plymouth Argyle Sat 22 Manchester City Mon 31 Arsenal NOVEMBER Fri 4 Leicester City JANUARY Mon 9 Brighton & Hove Albion Mon 16 Fulham Sun 22 Liverpool Mon 30 Manchester City FEBRUARY Mon 13 Leicester City Mon 20 Manchester United Mon 27 Tottenham Hotspur MARCH Fri 3 Everton Fri 17 Arsenal APRIL Mon 3 Chelsea Mon 17 West Ham United Mon 24 Wolves MAY Mon 13 Blackburn Rovers

women/u21s/u18s

W W D W

3-2 5-1 2-2 2-1

SEPTEMBER Tue 6 Hertha Berlin Wed 28 PSG DECEMBER Wed 14 Dinamo Zagreb FEBRUARY Wed 8 SC Braga

AUGUST Sat 13 West Ham United L 2-3 Sat 20 Aston Villa W 4-0 Sat 27 West Bromwich Albion SEPTEMBER Sat 3 Brighton & Hove Albion Sat 17 Southampton OCTOBER Sat 1 Chelsea Sat 8 Sheffield United Sat 22 Leicester City Sat 29 Fulham NOVEMBER Sat 5 Leeds United Sat 19 Norwich City Sat 26 Tottenham Hotpsur DECEMBER Sat 3 Brighton & Hove Albion Sat 17 Arsenal JANUARY Sat 7 West Ham United Sat 14 Fulham Sat 28 Aston Villa FEBRUARY Sat 11 Tottenham Hotspur Sat 18 Brighton & Hove Albion Sat 25 Arsenal MARCH Sat 18 Leicester City APRIL Sat 1 Southampton Sat 15 Norwich City Sat 22 Chelsea Sat 29 West Bromwich Albion

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Name

Apps

Chloe Arthur

Goals

1

Paige Bailey-Gayle Kirsty Barton

Name

Apps

Josh Addae

1

Victor Akinwale

3

Kofi Balmer

3

David Boateng

1

Owen Goodman (GK)

4

John-Kymani Gordon

4

Seán Grehan

3

Goals

1

1

Annabel Blanchard

1

Charley Clifford Rianna Dean Polly Doran

1

Aimee Everett

1

Anna Filbey

1

4

Name

Apps

Cormac Austin

2

Kalani Barton

2

Freddie Bell

2

Rio Cardines

1

Junior Dixon

2

William Eastwood (GK)

1

Joseph Gibbard

2

Jake Grante

1

Jackson Izquierdo (GK)

2

Eyimofe Jemide

2

Caleb Kporha

2

Fliss Gibbons

Jackson Izquierdo (GK)

Shauna Guyatt

Fionn Mooney

3

Jake O'Brien

2

Ademola Ola-Adebomi

3

David Omilabu

3

David Ozoh

3

Killian Phillips

4

Jesurun Rak-Sakyi

1

Zach Marsh

1

2

Hindolo Mustapha

1

Adler Nascimento

2

Basilio Socoliche

1

Vonnte Williams

2

Coral-Jade Haines

1

Elise Hughes

1

Annabel Johnson

1

Fran Kitching (GK)

1

Natalia Negri (GK) Leigh Nicol

2

4

Ellie Noble Hollie Olding Chloe Peplow

1

Kaden Rodney

Kirsten Reilly

1

Laurence Shala (GK)

Molly-Mae Sharpe

1

Isabella Sibley

1

4

Noah Watson

4

Lizzie Waldie

Jack Wells-Morrison

4

L

F

A GD Pts

1

cha

1

1

0

0

2

0 +2 3

2

bla

1

1

0

0

1

0 +1 3

pos CLUB P W D 1

cry

4

3

1

L

F

1

3

1

1

3

1

Hope Smith (GK)

pos CLUB P W D

Rob Street

Goals

A GD Pts

0 12 6 +6 10

2

ars

3

3

0

0 10 4 +6 9

3

ful

3

2

1

0

8

3 +5 7

4

mci

3

2

1

0

6

1 +5 7

pos CLUB 1

CHE

P W D

L

F

A GD Pts

2

0

5

0 +5 6 3 +4 6

2

0

2

whu

2

2

0

0

7

3

BHA

2

2

0

0

4

1 +3 6

4

cry

2

1

0

1

6

3 +3 3

3

bri

1

1

0

0

1

0 +1 3

4

cry

1

1

0

0

1

0 +1 3

5

eve

3

2

1

0

6

2 +4 7

5

dur

1

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

6

wol

4

2

0

2

5

9 -4 6

5

NOR

2

1

0

1

3

3

0

3

6

sun

1

0

1

0

1

1

0

1

7

lei

3

1

1

1

6

6

6

WBA

2

1

0

1

3

3

0

3

0

4

7

bir

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

8

liv

3

1

1

1

2

4 -2 4

7

TOT

2

1

0

1

2

2

0

3

8

lew

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

9

che

3

1

0

2

8

8

8

ARS

2

0

1

1

1

2 -1

1

9

cov

1

0

0

1

0

1

-1 0

10 tot

3

0

2

1

2

4 -2 2

FUL

2

0

1

1

1

3 -2 1

10 lon

1

0

0

1

0

1

-1 0

6 -3 1

9

11

she

1

0

0

1

0

1

-1 0

13 bla

3

0

0

3

0

12 sou

1

0

0

1

0

2 -2 0

14 whu

3

0

0

3

4

11

0

3

bha

3

0

1

2

3

12 mun

3

0

1

2

4 10 -6 1

10 SOU

2

0

1

1

4

7 -3 1

4 -4 0

11

AVL

2

0

1

1

3

7 -4 1

9 -5 0

12 LEI

2

0

0

2

0

5 -5 0

women/u21s/u18s

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Jack Butland

Joel Ward

Tyrick Mitchell

Luka Milivojevic

22/23 FIXTURES & RESULTS 01

02

03

04

Career Appearances

17

307

69

181

Career goals

0

5

1

29

ALL-TIME

MAY

APRIL

March

FEBRUARY

JANUARY

DEC

NOV

OCTOBER

SEP

AUGUST

Home fixture Away fixture Cup fixture (Crystal Palace score shown first) Started Used sub Unused sub Goal(s) Yellow card Red card attendance/ KICK-OFF

Date

Opposition

Fri 5

Arsenal

25,286

Mon 15

Liverpool

Sat 20

Aston Villa

Tue 23

Result

Position

L

0-2

17th

52,970

D

1-1

16th

25,012

W

3-1

9th

Oxford United

9,564

W

2-0

Second round

Sat 27

Manchester City

15:00

Tue 30

Brentford

19:30

Sat 3

Newcastle United

15:00

Sun 11

Manchester United

16:30

Sat 17

Brighton & Hove Albion

15:00

Sat 1

Chelsea

15:00

Sun 9

Leeds United

14:00

Sat 15

Leicester City

12:30

Tue 18

Wolverhampton Wanderers

19:30

Sat 22

Everton

15:00

Sat 29

Southampton

15:00

Sat 5

West Ham United

15:00

TBC

Newcastle United

TBC

Sat 12

Nottingham Forest

15:00

Mon 26

Fulham

15:00

Sat 31

Bournemouth

15:00

Mon 2

Tottenham Hotspur

15:00

Sat 14

Chelsea

15:00

Sat 21

Newcastle United

15:00

Sat 4

Manchester United

15:00

Sat 11

Brighton & Hove Albion

15:00

Sat 18

Brentford

15:00

Sat 25

Liverpool

15:00

Sat 4

Aston Villa

15:00

Sat 11

Manchester City

15:00

Sat 18

Arsenal

15:00

Sat 1

Leicester City

15:00

Sat 8

Leeds United

15:00

Sat 15

Southampton

15:00

Sat 22

Everton

15:00

Tue 25

Wolverhampton Wanderers

19:45

Sat 29

West Ham United

15:00

Sat 6

Tottenham Hotspur

15:00

Sat 13

Bournemouth

15:00

Sat 20

Fulham

15:00

Sun 28

Nottingham Forest

16:00

fixtures & results

Wilfried Zaha Vicente Guaita Jean-Philippe Mateta Jeffrey Schlupp Joachim Andersen Nathaniel Clyne James McArthur

10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18

124

46

34

137

57

433

129

37

165

42

173

249

9

4

4

15

5

86

0

9

14

0

1

19

26

24

1

35

2

3

1

0

7

0

0

Fixtures & Results

Kaden Rodney

23

Killian Phillips

22

Jaïro Riedewald

21

Nathan Ferguson

19

Cheick Doucouré

Chris Richards

Eberechi Eze

09

Malcolm Ebiowei

Jordan Ayew

07

Odsonne Edouard

Michael Olise

06 Sam Johnstone

Marc Guéhi

05 Will Hughes

James Tomkins

73

28 36 44 55 78

3

1

77

1

1

0

0

3

0

0

74

PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE 22/23

pos

P

W

D

L

F

A

GD

Pts

1

Club arsenal

3

3

0

0

9

2

+7

9

2

manchester city

3

2

1

0

9

3

+6

7

3

leeds united

3

2

1

0

7

3

+4

7

4

tottenham hotspur

3

2

1

0

7

3

+4

7

5

brighton & hove albion

3

2

1

0

4

1

+3

7

6

newcastle united

3

1

2

0

5

3

+2

5

7

fulham

3

1

2

0

5

4

+1

5

8

brentford

3

1

1

1

8

5

+3

4

9

crystal palace

3

1

1

1

4

4

0

4

10

nottingham forest

3

1

1

1

2

3

-1

4

11

southampton

3

1

1

1

5

7

-2

4

12

chelsea

3

1

1

1

3

5

-2

4

13

aston villa

3

1

0

2

3

6

-3

3

14

manchester united

3

1

0

2

3

7

-4

3

15

bournemouth

3

1

0

2

2

7

-5

3

16

liverpool

3

0

2

1

4

5

-1

2

17

everton

3

0

1

2

2

4

-2

1

18

wolverhampton wanderers

3

0

1

2

1

3

-2

1

19

leicester city

3

0

1

2

5

8

-3

1

20

west ham united

3

0

0

3

0

5

-5

0

All statistics correct as of 17:00 Wednesday, August 24th

arsenal aston villa

fulham brighton

man city nottingham forest

southampton chelsea

west ham spurs

Tuesday, August 30th - 19:45

Wednesday, August 31st - 19:45

leeds everton

liverpool newcastle

bournemouth wolves

leicester man united

Tuesday, August 30th - 19:30

Tuesday, August 30th - 19:30

Tuesday, August 30th - 20:00

Wednesday, August 31st - 19:30

Wednesday, August 31st - 19:30

Wednesday, August 31st - 19:30

Wednesday, August 31st - 20:00

Thursday, September 1st - 20:00

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