It's so good to see our local rag the Croydon Advertiser has it's finger on the pulse with regards to it's local team: [Link]

`But Palace chairman Parish insists he never set out to avoid bringing in foreign managers and, in fact, he believes a bit of influence from mainland Europe under Frank de Boer might prove crucial for the Eagles.

The Selhurst Park chief insists that while a counterattacking style worked for Palace in the past, he's hoping new Dutch manager de Boer, with some help from Yannick Bolasie and Wilfried Zaha, can help bring about a new era in SE25.`

Good grief!

Is he back then??

Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!!

even mentions him further down in the article:

"In Yannick [Bolasie] and in Wilfried [Zaha] we have those kind of players. Magical players who can create something out of nothing. But you will always have a moment when you don't have one of those and the sum of the parts need to be greater than the individual parts."

Actually I hate to defend the guy but that is correct. He is referencing the Barcelona team and it's style when it was played by that team under his management in the past.

They're only doing their job I suppose, but the number of stories they put on social media that start with "look who Palace are interested in" or "Palace joint favourites to sign (unnamed player)" just to get you to click through to their website, which for me has horrific response time and regularly bombs out (probably due to the number of ads). Grrr.

New manager Frank de Boer thinks that Cliff Holton could play a crucial role up front for the Glaziers next season, and he hopes to block Johnny Byrne's expected move to West Ham...