"This is a big club and we deserve success"

No you don't. The size of your club is irrelevant and you don't deserve success you earn it. Fans of clubs like Newcastle, Sunderland and even Spurs think they have a god given right to success. Get over it if your team is good enough the success will come.

One more point

Now we’ve got a game on our hands.

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

thought this alluded to the murky world of Match fixing - and paying the goalie to let in shot(s).

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Yes, anything along the lines of 'great left foot', because pundits only seem to use this line to refer to left-footed players, when it should relate to right-footed players who are surprisingly good with their weaker foot. Nobody ever says 'wand of a right foot' - it's equivalent to saying 'he's good at kicking the ball'.

“He’s gone and given the ball away.”

Where’s he gone?
Who gave him permission to leave the pitch?
Or to give the ball away?
WTF?

" A game of two halves" how many halves would there be otherwise ?

Touch my coffee and I will slap you so hard even Google won't be able to find you.