It has to be said, Palace do have a history recently of appointing young, exciting managers with dreams of a new style of play. They also have a history of shitting themselves when that manager loses a few games and hitting the anti-football panic button and reverting to a Roy / Big Sam type...
I still don’t see them going down, they’re lucky two of the slots already look booked and paid for by Sheffield United and Burnley and several teams are likely to get points deducted.
They’ll stay up by default. Sadly.
It’s ironic because Palace did genuinely get themselves a young, progressive manager. Ronald de Boer. Not untypically of such managers, he had a poor first few games while bedding in the ethos and system with the existing players (like Potter and RdZ did), but whereas Brighton stuck with theirs...
Said it before but one thing we have learned from our European adventures this season is what proper Ultras look like, whereas Palace’s look like The Breakfast Club
TBH when we're 2-0 down to Leicester on a bleak Saturday afternoon a few weeks from now our stands won't look dissimilar to that (albeit we won't have a wanky banner to make it look bad)