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I’ll take the Fulham win — but I don’t think Sage can survive the Premier League · Team of the eighties

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  Taylor.
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  Oh, what a goal by Peter Taylor.
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  Ah, welcome to team of the 80s.
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  My name is Gary Spencer.
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  Thank you for tuning in.
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  It's a funny old game for ball, isn't it?
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  Really is.
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  Could you see us beating Fulham tonight?
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  I couldn't.
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  But the thing is, is that, yeah, we've beaten Fulham and I'll take it.
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  I've got 100 quid on them to go all the way.
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  But the thing is, is with that team, I don't know what that means for us against Tottenham really, because what we had the reserves out the first half, which was really backs to the wall at one point, Fulham
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  had 85% possession and it was a bit like going back to the Royalson days, which, by the way, I don't mind if it's effective.
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  I don't mind if they have 100 of the ball and we have it.
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  Or rather 99 of the ball and we have it 1% and we score.
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  I don't mind that at all.
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  A lot of people hated that football.
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  But if it's effective and if that's the players we've got that can carry that type of football out, then I'll take it.
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  As opposed to playing a system that the players don't understand and we get beat or we let in two, three goals.
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  So positives to take away from tonight for me, we won, we're in the quarterfinal and we got a clean sheet.
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  As whether that's going to give us confidence for Saturday, it's very hard to tell because we didn't have the same team out.
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  I thought decori did amazing.
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  I didn't think he'd last.
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  He lasted what, an hour?
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  Thought he did excellent.
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  Hughes, of course, does excellent.
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  He always does.
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  Gusani did okay.
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  Richard was for me our outstanding player tonight.
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  He did very, very well.
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  And Dean back in goal, obviously that always helps.
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  And then obviously when the.
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  When the good players came in, or rather our first choice players came in, then we really did seem to shore up the game and we looked like going to get a second, to be honest.
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  But again, I'll keep going back to it.
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  I don't know what that means for Sarge or what that means for our game against spurs because there's really nothing.
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  It's not going to carry over.
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  It was so different.
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  The game was so different.
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  I don't think we can have any momentum or carryover, but I'll take the win and you're going to get a Premier League club.
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  Let's get Sunderland at our place.
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  Got to fancy our chances so, yeah, we'll take it again.
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  I don't know what it means about us in the league or us as a team, as the teams were so different and so contrasting in that game, but as everybody knows, I.
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  I've been a big proponent of.
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  Of Sarge to get fired.
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  I don't think he's got the chops for the Premier League.
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  He looks out of his depth than me and I don't really.
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  The only, the only thing I can think about is us giving him the Fulham game and the spurs game is that we haven't quite worked out a deal yet with the new manager.
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  Now, let's talk about the new manager.
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  Who would you want it to be?
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  Because if I mentioned Dice, for instance.
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  Oh, he's a dinosaur.
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  He's.
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  He's going to be horrible to watch.
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  Yeah, he may be, but he might give us the discipline we need to get 33 points.
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  Look at it any way you want.
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  You're going to get an expansive manager in there.
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  We've still got to get 33 points and the defense that we've got, I don't know.
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  So I'd rather go.
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  And also, please believe this, that Crystal palace is a season by season club.
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  We're not gonna build.
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  We're not.
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  I see so many posts in social media about, oh, and we're not moving forward.
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  We're not carrying.
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  Do you realize that 13 seasons in the Premier League is Crystal palace moving forward?
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  That is stability for us.
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  That is success for us.
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  Yeah, we won the FA cup and the Charity Shield and Europa Conference League, but let's get it right.
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  The FA cup we won, but it's a bit of a lottery, but we won it and we beat a good Manchester City team.
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  And that was for me, what we did win.
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  The Charity Shield.
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  Yeah, great.
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  But it's a, it's a friendly.
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  The Europa Conference League, the opposition was horrible, right.
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  And somehow we managed to get to the final.
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  We won it.
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  We ended up in a terrible league position.
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  Our squad got stretched and it's.
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  Again, it's no reflection on what we really like as a football club.
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  So if you are expecting Crystal palace to challenge top 10, top six, it's never going to happen.
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  It's not going to happen.
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  And it's especially not going to happen now the new financial rules are in play.
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  It's not going to happen.
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  So just for me, just be thankful that we're in the Premier League.
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  And if you do not want that, if you want the excitement of the championship, because we may be top of the league and we may be beating teams more regularly.
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  I don't know what to tell you or, or stay in the Premier League and go and support a top six club.
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  Because if you're expecting Crystal palace to be that club.
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  I've been watching them since 1969, 1970, they've never been that club.
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  They threatened it a few times through the team of the 80s, etc.
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  Etc.
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  But Crystal palace are a selling club.
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  Their move is to go out, find a player, get something out of him, moving on as a profit.
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  Right?
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  So even the people now that saying, oh, just keep sage toward the next window.
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  What do you think we're going to invest 60, 70, 80 million quid in the next window?
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  We're not going to do that.
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  So we need a manager which understands the players he's got, I.
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  E.
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  Like Hodgson Hodgson did like he.
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  Like Poolis did, and get the best out of the players we got and play a system with the players we got.
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  All right?
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  And then get through this season and then next season's next season.
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  That's the way Crystal palace have operated so far in the Premier League.
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  I don't mind it, but I.
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  But I'm a realist.
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  A lot of people online say that I'm a pessimist or I'm negative.
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  I'm not either of those things.
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  I love it when we win and I want us to win, but I'm also a realist.
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  I talk about what I'm actually seeing as opposed to what I would like to see.
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  I.
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  E.
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  Oh, Walton's world class.
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  No, he's not world class.
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  In fact, he's awful.
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  In fact, he should have been dropped for use a long time ago.
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  That's how I see the game.
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  Anyway, going back to the managers, I would ideally like Thomas Frank, but can Thomas Frank organize our defense?
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  Sean Dyche, you know, I already like him.
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  If I had my way, I'd get in Sam Allardyce because Sam Allardyce would work on that defense four hours, three hours a day until they did get it right.
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  And I guarantee we would, we would stop conceding goals.
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  Who else?
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  We've got Eddie Howe, I think Eddie.
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  I was just going to wait around because if Michael Carrick doesn't go this week, he's going to go next week.
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  I can't see Eddie Howe coming to the club and the other Fellowshaw.
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  I can't see McKenna coming.
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  I don't think Parish wants.
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  I.
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  I think Parish wants Thomas Frank or he wants Shaan Dych, probably Deitch, because in all honesty, I think he's more of a Crystal palace type manager.
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  And I think Steve Parish has made some really great, great decisions over the years.
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  I saw today a petition from the fans to get rid of Hobbs.
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  Listen, if Steve Parrish had listened to the fans, we'd have been bankrupt and out the league years ago.
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  All right, so Steve Parish ain't going to be listening to no petitions, trust me.
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  But Hobbs, is he to blame?
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  Yeah, maybe.
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  Or maybe I, I, who knows, you know?
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  All I know is that right now we're hearing a lot of noise everywhere.
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  Oh, it's the atmosphere.
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  Oh, it's Hobbs.
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  Oh, it's Parish.
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  But we didn't hear that when we won Europa Conference League.
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  We didn't hear that when we won the FA Cup.
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  We didn't hear that when we were even won the Charity Shield.
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  So what I'm saying is, you start winning games, all this other crap goes away because people aren't thinking, oh, they're trying to pick negatives out of everything else, apart from what is really wrong, and that is the players
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  aren't playing as good as they should do and the management isn't managing them properly or playing a system which they understand and can carry out.
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  So they're my thoughts.
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  How do I feel about Tottenham?
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  I think we'll get beat against Tottenham.
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  Tottenham.
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  He's a great manager, Robert de Zerbi, and he's starting to get a tune out of him.
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  They'd be very confident after their win at Chelsea and I think we'll get done at Tottenham.
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  And then what happens?
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  Who knows?
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  I, you know, I would really love Sarge to make it work, but I don't think he is going to make it work and I think.
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  I think he'd be better off out of it, to be quite honest.
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  And if we wait till the window, that's a lot of games and a lot of points to make up when we start in January.
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  So, yeah, that's where I'm at with that.
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  That's about it from me this week.
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  Hope we do dig something out of Tottenham.
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  I can't see it, but anyway, onwards and upwards.
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  I'll try and stay realistic, you try and stay optimistic and I don't know who the pessimistic one is and come on, you badass.