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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 11, 2017 10:42:17 GMT
Crystal Palace have sacked manager Frank de Boer after just four games in charge. The Dutch manager has presided over four defeats with no goals scored in his term at Selhurst Park and this morning he became the first managerial casualty of the 2017-18 Premier League season. Former England manager Roy Hodgson is now the bookies favourite to take over. Over the weekend Palace chairman Steve Parish used Twitter to rally fans around the team, without giving unequivocal backing to the former Ajax and Inter Milan boss. In an exchange with supporters on social media following Sunday's 1-0 defeat at Burnley, Parish wrote: "People are frustrated, I'm frustrated, so are the management and players. We know we are better than this..." Parish also wrote: "We are 4 games in, it's a terrible start but we have to stick together." In response to one Twitter user who accused him of undermining De Boer and the players, Parish responded: "I think I'm defending everyone at the club who's working their a*** off to turn this round. Football teams lose games it happens." Palace have so far conceded seven goals with defeats to Huddersfield, Liverpool, Swansea and Burnley. Ahead of the home match with Southampton on Saturday, Parish added: "Anyway so much for not answering people when we lose. Tough spot this. Looking forward to turning it round Saturday. Up The Palace!" He also retweeted a post from injured Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, who has been out since the opening day of the season with a knee problem. Zaha, who was not fit to play at Burnley, wrote: "It's easy to point fingers right now which won't solve anything! Let's just stick together and get through it like we always do #cpfcfamily." De Boer said after the match at Turf Moor: ''I am just focusing on what I can control and so are my staff and my players. (The future) is for other people to decide but while I'm the manager of Crystal Palace I will give 100 per cent.'' Palace were unfortunate to leave Lancashire with nothing after a series of missed chances, including those falling to Christian Benteke and Scott Dann late on. A dreadful back-pass from Lee Chung-yong gifted Burnley striker Chris Wood an early goal on his home debut. De Boer said: ''We have to reward ourselves and we didn't do that today. I am disappointed about the result but I am not disappointed about how we played."
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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 11, 2017 10:42:47 GMT
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Post by dorf on Sept 11, 2017 11:12:00 GMT
Liked him at Ajax and wanted him at Everton but he's done nothing since he's left Ajax. Great players don't necessarily make great managers.
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Post by londonpalace on Sept 11, 2017 16:52:28 GMT
Madness in my opinion, we would have done well to give him another 3 games. Our first season in the PL we lost 9 of the first 10 and still finished 11th.
lots of speculation that he wasn't getting on with the players etc, but the rate in which managers are sacked/walk out on Palace it may be to do with personality issues with Steve Parish. Who are we to question though, us poor football supporters just prop the whole thing up with our Sky subscriptions and season tickets!
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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 11, 2017 17:06:23 GMT
Madness in my opinion, we would have done well to give him another 3 games. Our first season in the PL we lost 9 of the first 10 and still finished 11th. lots of speculation that he wasn't getting on with the players etc, but the rate in which managers are sacked/walk out on Palace it may be to do with personality issues with Steve Parish. Who are we to question though, us poor football supporters just prop the whole thing up with our Sky subscriptions and season tickets! Roy Hodgson is supposedly taking the reins
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