Anyone who was at the Arsenal home game last season wouldn't question the impact the home crowd can make. Gave me goosebumps and bar Sanchez you literally saw the Arsenal players melt.

Surely you mean goggle it ?

Once they get the new training ground sorted cat 1 status shouldn't be an issue. I know that the club are actively persuing this and have a site identified but are talking with the authority concerned to ensure it can go ahead before anything is announced.

Juggling that..the new stand and finding a new manager is extremely time consuming...understandably

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I'm pretty sure it was, AE1, but I confess I'd forgotten about that until you mentioned it. Excellent recollection on your part.

I wonder how FdB teams measure up on the old spot-kicks, because we could do with converting a higher proportion of 'em.

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

Leeds ,Blackburn and Bolton all had top 8 finishes and played in Europe and were the victims of being either poorly run and overspending or failing to replace good managers , nothing to to with fan pressure or mentality , charlton made a poor managerial appointment in dowie after fan pressure for the club to kick on , fair enough , but no one could of predicted the fall out from losing curbishley.

Having just read Ronald de Boer's assessment of what his brother would bring to Palace and how he wants to keep the ball on the floor, I'd like to be a fly on the wall at the first training session.

Hi Frank, this is Damien.

'Schhhooo Damien sccchhooooow me what you can do.'

Hooooooof.