Crystal Palace F.C.
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| Full name | Crystal Palace Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | The Eagles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Selhurst Park London England (Capacity: 26,309) |
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| Chairman |  Simon Jordan |
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| Manager | Neil Warnock |
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| League | The Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | The Championship, 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Crystal Palace F.C. is an English football club based in South Norwood, London. Their home games are played at Selhurst Park.
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[edit] Club history
[edit] 1905 formation
Crystal Palace Football Club was formed on 10 September 1905 by workers at the Crystal Palace, and played its home games on the cup final ground at the The Crystal Palace. The colours chosen were the claret and blue of Aston Villa, a result of the important role in the club's formation played by Edmund Goodman, an Aston Villa employee who was recommended to the fledgling club by the Villa chairman. Edmund Goodman organised the business side of the club and managed the team from 1907 to 1925. A former amateur player with Villa, Goodman had lost his leg after taking a kick on the knee which he said himself "took bad ways".
[edit] Crystal Palace today
[edit] Neil Warnock (2007-)
[edit] 2007-08
The 2007-08 season started poorly for the Eagles, with manager Peter Taylor losing his job after two months, with the club staring at a relegation battle. Neil Warnock was then appointed Palace manager, turning the club around massively, taking them from the relegation places into the play-offs. However the Eagles then hit a sticky patch that saw results and performances, and Palace players making news for the wrong reasons, with Shefki Kuqi transfer-listed for swearing at Palace fans during a home defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
After thrashing Burnley 5-0 at home on the final day of the season, Palace lost 2-1 at home to Bristol City in the first leg of the play-off semi-finals, while the second leg saw the Eagles beat the Robins over 90 minutes by one goal to nil to take tie into extra time, with Ben Watson's penalty miss deying Palace an aggregate win that would have sent them through. In the extra-time period the Robins scored two high-quality goals to win the tie 4-2 on aggregate and move on to Wembley.
The season was remembered for the massive upheaval all around the club however, particularly the way in which several young players matured very quickly, such as Sean Scannell, Lee Hills and Victor Moses, who were all just seventeen years old at the time and playing confidently in the first team, and have reminded many older fans of the famous double FA Youth Cup-winning "Team of the Eighties".
[edit] 2008-09
The 2008-09 season will see Warnock in charge of Palace for a full season for the first time. The Eagles have returned to their legendary sash shirt of the 1980s, and many fans are hoping that the "Team of the Eighties" Championship win will be repeated.
Palace's preperations for the season were tinged with yet more controversy however, with the club's youngest ever player, sixteen year-old John Bostock rejecting a contract at Palace in favour of moving to Tottenham Hotspur. A Football League tribunal ruled that Spurs should pay the Eagles an initial fee of £700k, a valuation far below the general standard of player sales, with Cardiff City's seventeen year-old Aaron Ramsey moving to Spurs' rivals Arsenal for £5m just weeks before. This triggered the news that club Chairman and owner Simon Jordan intends to sell the club during the 2008-09 season, having grown disillusioned with the game.
[edit] Club records
- Record League Victory: 9-0 v Barrow, Fourth Division, 10 October 1959
- Record Cup Victory: 8-0 v Southend United, League Cup Second Round, 25 September 1989
- Record Defeat: 0-9 v Liverpool, First Division, 12 September 1989
- Record Cup Defeat: 0-9 v Burnley, FA Cup Second Round replay, 10 February 1909
- Longest FA Cup Runs: Final (replay), 1990, Semi-Finals 1976, 1995
- Longest League Cup Run: Semi-finals, 1995, 2001
- Longest Unbeaten Run: 18 Games, February 1968 in the Old Second Division (now Championship) - October 1968 in the First Division (now Premier League) (the run was split over two seasons where Palace achieved promotion)
- Highest League Scorer in Season: Peter Simpson, 46, Third Division South, 1930/31
- Most League Goals in Total Aggregate: Peter Simpson, 153, 1930 - 1936
- Fastest Hat-trick: 11 mins. v Grimsby by Dougie Freedman, First Division, 5 March 1996
- Highest Number of League Hat-tricks: 18, by Peter Simpson, 1929 - 1933
- Highest Number of Aggregate Hat-tricks: 19, by Peter Simpson, 1929 - 1933
- Most Internationals Caps (while at club): Aki Riihilahti, 35 (66), Finland
- First Player to Appear in a World Cup Match: Gregg Berhalter, 2002, United States
- Most Appearances (any competition): Jim Cannon, 660, 1973 - 1988
- Youngest League Player: John Bostock, 15 years and 287 days, v Watford, at Selhurst Park (Championship, 29 October 2007)
- Record Transfer Fee Received: £8,600,000 from Everton for Andrew Johnson, May 2006
- Record Transfer Fee Paid: £2,750,000 to Strasbourg for Valérien Ismaël, January 1998
- Record Attendance: 51,482 v Burnley, Second Division, 11 May 1979
- Highest league position 1st in the First Division, 29 September 1979 - 6 October 1979
- Highest league finishing position 3rd in the Old First Division (now Premier League) (1990-91 season)
[edit] Club Honours
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[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Current Members of Staff
| Position | Name | Nationality |
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| Chairman: | Simon Jordan | English |
| Vice-Chairman: | Dominic Jordan | English |
| Chief Executive: | Phil Alexander | English |
| Manager: | Neil Warnock | English |
| Assistant Manager: | Mick Jones | English |
| First Team Coach: | Keith Curle | English |
| Reserve Team Manager: | Gary Issott | English |
| Goalkeeping Coach: | Jim Stannard | English |
| Fitness Coach: | Louis Langdown | English |
| Chief UK Scout | Allan Gemmill |  Scottish |
| Head Physio: | Nigel Cox and Paul Timson | English |
| Under 18 Coach/Assistant Academy Manager: | Gary Issot | English |
[edit] Crystal Palace "Centenary XI"
To celebrate Crystal Palace's centenary in 2005, the club asked Palace fans to vote for a "Centenary XI". The Centenary XI consists of players whom the Palace faithful have decided were their favourites over the history of the club.
[edit] Centenary XI Criticisms
When the Centenary XI was revealed to Palace fans, it came under heavy criticism from fans who felt certain players should not have been in the team, or that certain players should have been included.
Fans felt that the Centenary XI only represented the latter years of the clubs history, with the oldest player represented being Jim Cannon, who made his debut in the 1972-1973 season.
Fans felt that players such as record goalscorer Peter Simpson, former goalkeeper John Jackson, Don Rogers and Peter Taylor the latter capped by England whilst Palace were in the third division should have been included. Johnny Byrne was another contentious omission having commanded a record transfer fee when he moved to West Ham United in 1963.
[edit] Notable Crystal Palace players and Internationals
The following shows players who have received at least one international cap and played for Crystal Palace, have got over 150 league appearances for the club, or have won the club's "Player of the Year" award. The list does not however, show current players who fall into either of the first two categories, though current players who have won the "Player of the Year" award are listed. For a list of players who have played for the club see this link
1 - Current players with the club who have been the recipient of "Player of the Year" awards.
2 - >Ćurčić played for the Yugoslavian team before the break-up of the SFR Yugoslavia, and the Serbia and Montenegro team after the partition.
[edit] Managerial history
| Name | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||
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| John 'Jack' Robson | |
1905 | 1907 | 77 | 35 | 18 | 24 | 45.45% | |
| Edmund Goodman | |
1907 | 1925 | 613 | 242 | 166 | 205 | 39.48% | |
| Alec Maley | |
1925 | 1927 | 83 | 36 | 16 | 31 | 43.37% | |
| Fred Mavin | |
1927 | 1930 | 132 | 63 | 33 | 36 | 47.73% | |
| Jack Tresadern | |
1930 | 1935 | 173 | 98 | 44 | 71 | 56.65% | |
| Tom Bromilow | |
1935 | 1936 | 44 | 23 | 5 | 16 | 52.27% | |
| R.S Moyes | |
1936 | 1936 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 26.09% | |
| Tom Bromilow | |
1937 | 1939 | 118 | 48 | 35 | 35 | 40.68% | |
| George Irwin | |
1939 | 1947 | 46 | 15 | 11 | 19 | 32.61% | |
| Jack Butler | |
1947 | 1949 | 88 | 23 | 24 | 41 | 26.14% | |
| Ronnie Rooke | |
1949 | 1950 | 62 | 19 | 15 | 28 | 30.65% | |
| Fred Dawes/Charlie Slade | |
1950 | 1951 | 40 | 8 | 10 | 22 | 20% | |
| Laurie Scott | |
1951 | 1954 | 145 | 43 | 41 | 61 | 29.66% | |
| Cyril Spiers | |
1954 | 1958 | 181 | 52 | 53 | 76 | 28.73% | |
| George Smith | |
1958 | 1960 | 101 | 42 | 27 | 31 | 41.58% | |
| Arthur Rowe | |
1960 | 1962 | 132 | 52 | 32 | 48 | 39.39% | |
| Dick Graham | |
1962 | 1966 | 150 | 68 | 41 | 41 | 45.33% | |
| Arthur Rowe | |
1966 | 1966 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 28.57% | |
| Bert Head | |
1966 | 1973 | 328 | 101 | 96 | 131 | 30.79% | |
| Malcolm Allison | |
1973 | 1976 | 146 | 52 | 45 | 49 | 35.62% | |
| Terry Venables | |
1976 | 1980 | 189 | 69 | 68 | 52 | 36.51% | |
| Ernie Walley | |
1980 | 1980 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 16.67% | |
| Malcolm Allison | |
1980 | 1981 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11.11% | |
| Dario Gradi |  |
1981 | 1981 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 23.33% | |
| Steve Kember | |
1981 | 1982 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 26.67% | |
| Alan Mullery | |
1982 | 1984 | 98 | 31 | 27 | 40 | 31.63% | |
| Steve Coppell | |
1984 | 1993 | 442 | 179 | 113 | 150 | 40.5% | |
| Alan Smith | |
1993 | 1995 | 108 | 48 | 25 | 35 | 44.44% | |
| Steve Coppell | |
1995 | 1996 | 32 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 28.13% | |
| Dave Bassett | |
1996 | 1997 | 60 | 29 | 15 | 16 | 48.33% | |
| Steve Coppell | |
1997 | 1998 | 51 | 16 | 13 | 22 | 31.37% | |
| Attilio Lombardo/Tomas Brolin | / |
1998 | 1998 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 28.57% | |
| Ron Noades/Ray Lewington | |
1998 | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | |
| Terry Venables | |
1998 | 1999 | 31 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 35.48% | |
| Steve Coppell | |
1999 | 2000 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 17 | 42.5% | |
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