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palace √ aston villa sat 20 aug | 15:00
08 captain 10 chairman 34 pub talk 40 Ben Bailey Smith 44 gary issott 46 over the road 49 south of the river 54 ABCD epl 56 2012/13 revisited 58 from the archive 68 beat brighty 70 stats & results
Directors Chairman Steve Parish, David Blitzer, Joshua Harris, John Textor Chief Financial Officer Sean O’Loughlin Sporting Director Dougie Freedman Club Secretary Christine Dowdeswell Head of Sports Medicine Dr. Zaf Iqbal Academy Director Gary Issott Director of U23 Development Mark Bright Chief Commercial Officer Barry Webber General Counsel David Nichol Director of Operations Sharon Lacey Head of Ticketing Paul McGowan Head of Retail Laura Holland Chief Marketing and Communications Officer James Woodroof Head of Safeguarding Cassi Wright Head Groundsman Bruce Elliott Editor Ben Mountain Design Billy Cooke, Luke Thomas, Stu Ellmer Contributors Will Robinson, Ian King, Ben Bailey Smith, Toby Jagmohan, Gary Issott, Polly Doran Photography Neil Everitt, Sebastian Frej, Pinnacle Photo Agency, Getty, Stuart Roy Clarke Printer Bishops Printers
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As much as you can you live in the present and deal with what’s in front of you… There’s always the next game, next session and things ahead of me to focus on
At just 22-years-old, Marc Guéhi has enjoyed a remarkably swift rise. Or has he? The defender doesn’t think so. Here, he tells Ben Mountain why he’s not yet satisfied – and why he rejected the armband from Patrick Vieira.
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ian king
Having been on the brink of collapse in 2010, Crystal Palace earned promotion back to the Premier League 10 years ago this season. Here, Club Historian Ian King tells the story of a dramatic campaign – with a little help from the stars of When Eagles Dare.
AUGUST 14TH: EXETER CITY 1-2 PALACE (LEAGUE CUP) Weeks after an aborted pre-season in the south-west, oddly the season began with this first round League Cup tie in Devon. Three players made their debuts: Joel Ward and Aaron Martin started, and Aaron Wilbraham came off the bench. The Grecians drew first blood, scoring after just two minutes, but midway through the first-half Jermaine Easter converted a soft penalty awarded for handball. Just before the break Wilfried Zaha chased a ball into the box and lofted it in for Kagisho Dikgacoi to head home. Further chances came Palace’s way after the break for Easter and KG, and Martin saw his header cleared off the line. Wilbraham came on for captain Glenn Murray
with 12 minutes remaining and landed a couple of headers. That same evening Leicester City won 4-0 down the road in Torquay, with Jamie Vardy scoring his first of 164 goals for the Foxes.
AUGUST 18TH: PALACE 2-3 WATFORD Julián Speroni, Jonathan Parr and captain Mile Jedinak made their first appearances of the season in this clash, with Wilbraham starting up front, and again Palace were awarded a penalty for their first goal when Zaha was fouled after 13 minutes. Owen Garvan converted the spot kick but nine minutes later Watford levelled when Speroni spilled a shot and Martin Taylor equalised. Speroni made up for this just before the half-hour mark as his long kick upfield found Garvan, who fired home for his brace.
That is how the score remained until the final two minutes when a pair of Watford’s new players scored with efforts from outside the box, one from Matej Vydra coming with virtually the last kick of the game. Alphabetically Blackpool were the early leaders of the nPower Championship while Palace were the only one of nine losing clubs to score a goal, putting them 16th – one place above Brighton.
early august
august 10th
Palace agree to sign Bolasie, Delaney, Gabbidon and Moritz
Kieron Cadogan is released
2012/13
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AUGUST 21ST: BRISTOL CITY 4-1 PALACE -
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The same starting XI took to the field at Ashton Gate while Yannick Bolasie was again missing from City’s lineup having handed in a transfer request. The Eagles found themselves two goals down after the first 13 minutes to winless City despite already having a couple of chances. Again uncertainty in defence was their downfall, failing to clear after a corner, and then an innocuous punt was miscontrolled and Martyn Woolford chipped Speroni from the edge of the box. Matters improved after halftime but then Dean Moxey fouled Jon Stead in the penalty area and the striker scored from the spot. With 15 minutes left Zaha and Garvan combined for Dikgacoi to reduce the arrears during the Eagles’ best spell but then Albert Adomah sealed it for City with an unstoppable drive past Speroni from the edge of the area. Blackpool still headed the table but Palace now slipped into the bottom two places with Peterborough United as the only sides without a point. There was a lot of work to do, as Steve Parish and Dougie Freedman sat down to discuss who they needed next. Their decisions paid dividends within weeks
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dean moxey
BORN: January 14th, 1986 – Exeter APPEARANCES: 103 GOALS: 1 In 2012/13 Moxey had to share his position with Jonathan Parr and appeared in half the games on Palace’s return to the Premier League, moving to re-join his former boss Freedman at Bolton in the summer of 2014. Returning to Devon with Exeter and now Torquay United, it says much for his fitness that Moxey is still playing with over 600 appearances behind him.
We knew there was a lot of time to turn it all around and we hadn’t changed our opinion about being able to turn it around. I know I didn’t. Mile Jedinak
august 14th
august 17th
Palace win their first game of the season √ Exeter City
Alex Marrow joins Fleetwood Town on loan
2012/13
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