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View Seth's Profile Seth Flag On a pale blue dot 06 May 14 3.37pm Send a Private Message to Seth Add Seth as a friend

The ginger tw@t Adrian Durham finally finds something positive to say about us - well Steve Parish anyway.

Doesn't make him any less of a tw@t though.


Steve Parish deserves to be recognised for Crystal Palace's stunning season
By ADRIAN DURHAM

Is there a chairman of the year award? Surely Crystal Palace’s Steve Parish and his other co-chairmen would win it.

Parish is accessible to the Palace fans on social media for a start. But more importantly he and his colleagues have dealt with a really tough season at Selhurst Park.

After Dougie Freedman left for Bolton (he really did), Parish – a Palace fan as a kid – had to make an appointment. He turned to Ian Holloway and after somehow securing £15million for Wilfred Zaha and then getting him back on loan, Parish saw Palace promoted the best way – via the play-offs at Wembley.

Some chairmen would wallow in that success and take the parachute payment relegation from the Premier League brings.

But not Parish. He backed Holloway in the transfer market – without blinking an eye Palace paid the £50k-a-week wages of Marouane Chamakh, a failure at Arsenal. He also paid the £6m transfer fee for another striker, Dwight Gayle, who had played just half a season in the Championship and been relegated with Peterborough United.

Then Holloway unexpectedly quit and Parish was left looking for a manager ready to take charge of a team in disarray and heading down.

He chose Tony Pulis and once again, backed his manager in the transfer market in January.

And now Palace are safe in mid-table.

Pulis will get a huge amount of credit for the job he has done and rightly so.

But given everything that has been thrown at Parish and the other co-chairmen at Selhurst Park, they have shown some others in the top flight how a club should be run.
The only question now is where do Palace go from here? How high can Parish aim?

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"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

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View Qwijibo's Profile Qwijibo Flag Bournemouth 06 May 14 3.44pm Send a Private Message to Qwijibo Add Qwijibo as a friend

He can f*** off

 

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View Barcelona Based Fan's Profile Barcelona Based Fan Flag No longer Barcelona, now living in... 06 May 14 4.13pm Send a Private Message to Barcelona Based Fan Add Barcelona Based Fan as a friend

Am loving listening to talksport tonight (for a change)
Nice things being said about Palace by Ginger Durham

 


TaxiMark
Sheffield Wednesday Fan
Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM
I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton

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View EagleLee79's Profile EagleLee79 Flag Mablethorpe, Lincs 06 May 14 4.13pm Send a Private Message to EagleLee79 Add EagleLee79 as a friend

Quote Qwijibo at 06 May 2014 3.44pm

He can f*** off


Exactly my thoughts!

Hope they get smashed by Orient in the play-offs and lose to a last minute penalty

 

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View eagle184's Profile eagle184 Flag Sutton 06 May 14 4.17pm Send a Private Message to eagle184 Add eagle184 as a friend

Hate listen to him talks absolute sh*te and he hates Palace with a passion.

 

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View Ulysses's Profile Ulysses 06 May 14 4.26pm Send a Private Message to Ulysses Add Ulysses as a friend

Chamakh is on £50,000 a week?! Surely that can't be true.

 

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View paulose17's Profile paulose17 Flag Sutton 06 May 14 4.39pm Send a Private Message to paulose17 Add paulose17 as a friend

This amused me, Someone wrote this in response to his chants article a week or so ago:

Please take it easy on Adrian. It is fun for you all to point your collective fingers and laugh but do any of you know how difficult it is to be Adrian Durham ? Have you any idea how much effort go's into being as bitter and as twisted as he is? His shameless rants are crafted from years of anguish and torment He should be applauded not ridiculed. Try to think of him as a fully grown ginger Eric Cartman but with less knowledge and wisdom.

 


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Another piece from Durham, this time singing the praises of Dwight Gayle:

Dwight Gayle has gone from non-League wilderness to wrecking Liverpool's dream

Two years ago this week Dwight Gayle scored a hat-trick and was man of the match for Conference North side Bishop's Stortford in a 4-0 win which saw Eastwood Town relegated.

That’s the sixth tier of English football.
At the start of last season he made his Football League debut for Dagenham & Redbridge in a 2-0 defeat at Cheltenham Town.

A year ago he was leading the line in a Peterborough United side that was relegated in the final minute of the final game of the Championship season at, ironically, Crystal Palace.

On Monday night he scored twice for Palace against Liverpool in that stunning 3-3 draw. He had already scored at Anfield earlier in the season and but for injuries this term, he would surely have added to his tally of five.

As a kid Gayle was with Arsenal but they rejected him on the basis that he was too small. He reacted badly and football became just a kick-about with his mates.
His talent was hard to ignore and he got a game with Stansted way down the pyramid.

Then Dagenham boss John Still picked him up, loaned him out to Bishop's Stortford, and then put him in the Daggers’ first team before he got a move to the Championship.

What a rise to glory. You can only be impressed with his mentality, his ability and his determination.
But it also makes me wonder how many others are out there. Extremely talented footballers who didn’t react well to an ill-judged, premature rejection, but with the right guidance and coaching could become true Premier League talents and maybe even benefit the national team.

Look at Kevin Phillips, one of my favourite players, who retired at the weekend: rejected by Southampton as a teenager, played as a defender in non-league football at Baldock Town before an injury crisis led to him playing up front. He never looked back and went on to become a Golden Boot winner, one of the few to score 30 goals in a Premier League season, and played for England.

Still not convinced? Stuart Pearce was rejected after a trial at QPR, and then went non-League with Wealdstone. He ended up playing for England in a World Cup and European Championship semi-final. I will be privileged to be working with him at the World Cup for talkSPORT this summer.

There are talented players out there in the lower leagues and non-League: I just wish more of our top flight coaches would get off their backsides and go and watch them.

All of us who played school football, Sunday football - even football miles down the pyramid - will admire what Gayle has achieved.

And the best thing about it is that he is a wonderfully humble guy as well.

There are more out there – I would love to see Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers or Manuel Pellegrini go and watch a player in the Conference, pluck him out, polish him up and turn him into an international. It’s been done before. Surely that’s a massive part of what coaching is all about?

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"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

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There are more out there – I would love to see Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers or Manuel Pellegrini go and watch a player in the Conference, pluck him out, polish him up and turn him into an international. It’s been done before. Surely that’s a massive part of what coaching is all about?
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This, as an example.
I like Durham and I generally agree with many of the things he say's.
No man can be all things to all people all of the time but I don't get 'the hate' aimed at him by some. He get's paid to do a job and he does it well imo.

 

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View Percy of Peckham's Profile Percy of Peckham Flag Eton Mess 06 May 14 8.22pm Send a Private Message to Percy of Peckham Add Percy of Peckham as a friend

He writes like someone who is knowledgeable and passionate about football. He also appreciates those who feel the same way about their game and clubs. All football supporters are good guys in my book ....excluding Brighton supporters of course!!!!

 


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Quote Ulysses at 06 May 2014 4.26pm

Chamakh is on £50,000 a week?! Surely that can't be true.


I understood it to be £60k, with Arsenal paying the lion's share for the first year. Although we have him on a one-year contract, we have an option for a further 12 months which, apparently, the Arse won't be subsidising.

Unless he's willing to take a mega pay-cut, I'd rate his chances of still being with us next season as rather less than 50/50.

 


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Quote Cucking Funt at 07 May 2014 12.14am

Quote Ulysses at 06 May 2014 4.26pm

Chamakh is on £50,000 a week?! Surely that can't be true.


I understood it to be £60k, with Arsenal paying the lion's share for the first year. Although we have him on a one-year contract, we have an option for a further 12 months which, apparently, the Arse won't be subsidising.

Unless he's willing to take a mega pay-cut, I'd rate his chances of still being with us next season as rather less than 50/50.

This may be true I'm not sure but it was intimated by Steve Browett that Chamakh was certainly not getting paid anywhere near £30k a week nevermind $50k a week. Its certainly possible he meant not being paid that figure by us...

I'm more inclined to believe its more bollocks from Durham who tends to be somewhat prevalent in stating 'facts' that have come from local rags who have even less idea than we do.

 


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Quote cornwalls palace at 24 Oct 2012 9.37am

He was right!!!...and we killed him!!... poor Orpinton Eagles........

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