Lucky 13th Place in League for Pardew as disappointing Everton Loss replaced with Joy of Narrow Victory vs Relegation Rival!

So the comparison with the days of Coppell and Noades can start in Ernest as far as I am concerned as Logistics expert Steve Parish makes move for the man that can stabilise and secure a (Mark) Bright future for the club.

As an avid observer of Palace history from the early 1990’s to this part of the twenty first century it is a clever observation as both were shrewd businessmen who in their own way took risks with personal popularity given the restrictions upon them by economic circumstances to build towards a bottom up solution creating a much better and more secure and successful period for the club. This was relative to the chaos of the enjoyable but scary and unstable periods of Simon Jordan & Mark Goldberg. To be fair to both of the latter scatty and unpopular decision making led both to find hot water of Administration periods due to bad mistakes even if this was for totally different reasons. It is undeniable Simon Jordan brought great efforts in securing the future via youth academies which brought forward players such as Bostock, Moses and Routledge to try to create a better future for a family club, yet ultimately extreme anger followed because of his unforgivable jepardisation of the clubs through the involvement of the hedge fund Agilo.

Back to the events of the present day memories of the disappointing defeat to Everton was soon to fade to be replaced by a much more positive, attractive counter attacking away performance to the Foxes of Leicester City to narrowly secure a 0 – 1 win. Debutante Jordan Mutch anchored the midfield very well, but it was the enforced introduction of defender Hangeland due to an injury to Scott Dann that changed the game.

An excellent performance in anchoring the defence alongside Martin Kelly led to Hangeland setting up a winner by nodding a corner back from the far post to set up Joe Ledley for a back post headed winner to secure a narrow victory. The importance of the result was not lost on both sides as Palace gave themselves a nine point buffer on the bottom three  as Leicester City remain routed to the foot of the table.

Wednesday night sees the exciting prospect of Pardew taking on his old club Newcastle United under lights at Selhurst Park. It may also be an opportunity for Eagles fans to see deadline day signings Keishi Anderson, Shaola Ameobi against his former club and French defender Pape Soare. It is also worth noting we can watch Wilf Zaha permanently again at Selhurst Park having resigned him for six million pounds sterling, a nine million pound profit on the original fifteen million pound transfer fee we received for him from Manchester United.