My first home game since the 4-0 loss to spurs! Couldn't fly over with an Achilles injury. Absolutely delighted I limped through the airport from Dublin last night :-)

A thrilling game from start to finish today. I watched it courtesy of BT TV and was on the edge of my chair in added time.

Ayew is really staking his claim for Palace legend. If only he would be a tad more animated when he's interviewed.

So good to see Wilf back and scoring. Hope he's not badly injured and also hope he renews his contract.

Eze and Olise are an amazing pair of talented players. They're both wonderful to watch.

Ward seems to have a new lease of life and is playing like he's 10 years younger.

The score paints a false picture of the game we dominated, but the three points is all that matters.

Next season can't come soon enough. I wonder who will have the privilege of managing and coaching our fine group of players.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

It wasn't a penalty. 6 of one and half a dozen of the other and Wilf started it all by pulling on the defender. (Was at home not fully recovered from flu and saw the game on BT).

I too watched on BT Sport and I agree with you entirely. It was NOT a penalty. I also feel that the Eze penalty award was the correct decision. It was a foul albeit not a heinous foul, but a foul nevertheless.

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

It's a very Chelsea thing to do to pay £100m for a midfielder you don't notice.

I said that to my son today. Also agree I didn’t realise Declan Rice had played today. We played some lovely stuff and at least the team made up for the shambles waiting an hour to get in. The guy I was chatting to at the disabled gate in Holmesdale road had his 2 grandsons aged 5 and 7 inside the ground on their own as their cards had worked only for his phone not to work and yet they wouldn’t open the gate and let him in. Even the police told the senior steward this was a safeguarding issue and yet they still did nothing. 45 mins later when they realised they had no plan b they just opened all the gates. Surely some common sense should have prevailed before then.

Roy appears to have unlocked the potential of the forward players. The ball needs to go into Eze and there's more movement around him. Eze himself is finding the spaces to receive the ball and when these players have a yard or two in front of them they can be clinical - I think Ayew's goal illustrates this well.
Defence from set pieces is woeful, I'd expect Roy and Ray to work on this as a priority, all the good work at one end was nearly undone at the other, the far post being particularly vulnerable.
I'd like to see the side push on for the 50 point mark, I think it is doable, and would be a fine achievement since Roy's arrival.
It has to be said that Parish made the correct decision in sacking Vieira, something was very wrong, these are the same players but look at the resurgence and energy they play with under Roy - a credit to him and Ray Lewington, and to top it all we've moved up a place to 11th

Edited by southnorwoodhill (30 Apr 2023 6.04am)

Away for a week eh ! have you been a naughty boy and we’re you someone’s new best friend

Played well yesterday, apart from defending set pieces which has come into our play. It was never a pen, I would have been pissed off if that was given against us. Both teams are safe which is good, there are a few other clubs I would rather go down than West Ham.

When they got the last corner, from the reaction in my section, you would have thought they had got a penalty.
Where did the 8.5 minutes of injury time come from? During which Palace got a throw but WH player took it and they allowed play to continue