This thread has been inspired by Sakho who for me would make one of the places at center half , probably alongside Jim Cannon .
What do you think .
Its not just how Sakho stops people , its his calm distribution of the ball and his awareness .
Also the best loan signing of any club ever .
Loan players normally barely do a job
He's been exceptional

I would rate him as one of the most gifted and classy players ever to have pulled on a Palace shirt.

I can only recall Attilio Lombardo exerting as much influence on a game as Mama.

I've witnessed the like of Cannon, McCormick,Blyth, Evans, Coleman, Young and I have to say that Mama, although not a Palace player as such, is easily the best I have seen.

I really do rate him as world class which, imo, none of the others were,

True, he cannot be called a Palace great; you have to have played regularly through thick and thin many a season but he really is the bee's bollocks, this one.

John McCormick of course

Craig Moore? Presumably not Kevin Muscat

I recall Stephenson - and McCormack from way back !
Also Roger Hynd, Roy Barry etc.

Well, Willo, Stephenson was a much coveted player for us and soon had the inevitable big move so it's difficult to asses him as a Palace player.

Although the West Ham side of the time was a successful one in terms of the players in the squad, it was by no means top of the pile - nowhere near and Stephenson didn't really cut it on the international stage.

He never exhibited the leadership qualities of Cannon of Sahko either.