The Crystal Palace Courier
Squad17 Feb 2042
A fracture rules Thomas Lawrence out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Crystal Palace will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match15 Feb 2042
No end in sight to Crystal Palace's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Crystal Palace has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 Feb 2042
Thomas Green has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Crystal Palace they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Feb 2042
Luka Vušković falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Feb 2042
Tempers go at Crystal Palace
George Hawkins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 Feb 2042
Everton take the points off Crystal Palace
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings17 Feb 2042
Nobody could get near George Hawkins
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Feb 2042
A muscle injury sidelines Rio Cardines for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Crystal Palace will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market17 Feb 2042
The Yeremy Pino talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Crystal Palace know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Boardroom Crystal Palace keep producing them
- Market Crystal Palace put Charles Wright up for sale