Palace 'keeper Julian Speroni gave an interview to The Croydon Adversiser in which he had some nice things to say about Everton fans......and some interesting thoughts on Tony Pulis and Neil Warnock:
Speroni revealed after Sunday's game at Everton that the home fans were complimentary of him.
The 35-year-old, whose reputation in the top flight has grown in the last year, said supporters were "very, very kind" ahead of the second half at Goodison Park.
However, that soon turned to whistles and boos as they felt the Argentinian was taking too long with a couple of goal-kicks. The second one landed him a booking from referee Michael Oliver.
"No chance it was a yellow card, it was very harsh," Speroni said.
"I went to put the ball down – and I think the referee may have done it to please their fans because I did it a previous time.
"Even before I had the ball in my hands before placing it down, they started to whistle and boo.
"But beforehand they were actually so kind to me. When I walked towards the goal at half-time to play the second half, they were very, very kind and applauded me. That was nice and I appreciated that."
Speroni respects what Pulis did for the club but hopes people can finally move on and concentrate on the future – to keep the club in the top flight. "Everyone was saying 'Pulis the Messiah', but nobody was giving credit to the players for last season," the custodian said.
"I am tired of talking about Tony Pulis. He took over when we were playing under a system with Ian Holloway where we were playing football but leaving gaps and we were not organised.
"It didn't take a genius to work out we needed to be more organised. Keith Millen then did a great job before Tony Pulis took over.
"We had a few good results before Tony came in so that shows you the character and spirit of the team.
"There needs to be credit for the players. Tony did a great job but everyone talks about Tony Pulis and I think they should give credit to us too. I said recently that Neil Warnock is the best manager I've ever worked with and I really mean that.
