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1 week ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The Eagles took the lead inside ten minutes on Liverpool’s Premier League crowning afternoon when Tyrick Mitchell intercepted Connor Bradley’s loose pass and threaded an incisive through ball to Ismaila Sarr in between the Reds’ split defence. The Senegalese international, one-on-one with Alisson, drove his effort into the bottom corner, and at that point, Palace were tenth in the top flight.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The 21-year-old was included in Lee Carsley’s preliminary 29-man squad, which will be cut to 23, but has been excluded from early preparations after suffering a concussion during Palace’s FA Cup final victory over Manchester City. Wharton joined Palace from Blackburn in February 2024 in a deal worth up to £22 million.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The 22-year-old has spent this season on loan at Sheffield United, making 36 appearances en route to this weekend's Championship play-off final. Rak-Sakyi, who is contracted at Palace until 2027, has scored seven times for Chris Wilder's side this season but has completed 90 minutes only once. The Southwark-born winger joined the Palace academy from Chelsea in 2019 as a 17-year-old and made his senior debut in Patrick Vieira's first game in charge – a 3-0 loss to Chelsea in August 2021.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan (centre) (Image: Steven Paston/PA) Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan praised Steve Parish’s custodianship of the football club after the Eagles won the FA Cup for the first time in their history. Eberechi Eze cemented himself in Palace folklore at Wembley on Saturday when his 16th-minute volley clinched the south Londoners' first piece of major silverware.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The Eagles beat Manchester City 1-0 at Wembley via Eberechi Eze’s guided volley, ending their 120-year wait for major silverware. Mitchell, 25, was brought up less than five miles from the site of Palace’s triumph and played for AFC Wembley in his childhood. 188 Palace appearances later, the full-back returned to where he was raised and claimed the first winner's medal of his career.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The Eagles beat the seven-time winners of the competition, Manchester City, at Wembley to secure the first major trophy in the club's history. Hughes, 30, featured in four of the Eagles' FA Cup games as he lifted silverware for the first time in his career. In a year of firsts, the midfielder will enjoy an inaugural Europa League campaign next season, something he insists was beyond his wildest dreams.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The 35-year-old lifted the FA Cup, alongside playing captain Marc Guehi, for the first time in the club’s history on Saturday as Eberechi Eze’s 13th-minute volley against Manchester City ended the Eagles’ 120-year wait for a major trophy. Ward joined Palace for £400,000 from Portsmouth in 2012 and grasped silverware in his first season when Palace earned promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The 50-year-old became the first manager to lift major silverware at Palace when they beat Manchester City in the FA Cup final on Saturday. Palace had tasted defeat in two previous FA Cup finals, both against Manchester United, but it was third time lucky at Wembley when Eberechi Eze’s first-half finish sealed the club’s first major trophy in their 120-year history.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
Eberechi Eze’s 16th-minute strike was enough to brush Manchester City aside on Saturday and clinch Palace’s first major piece of silverware. Palace had previously suffered FA Cup final defeats in 1990 and 2016, but Glasner brought an end to the 120-year wait for glory in south London in his first full season in charge. Despite the unprecedented achievement, Glasner will put the medal away and not look at it, as he does with his Europa League winners medal.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsshopper.co.uk | Bobby Manzi
The Eagles have a track record of sensible recruitment, focused on unearthing value-appreciating talents, such as Marc Guehi, Adam Wharton, Eberechi Eze and Michael Olise, who Palace paid just over £75m combined to acquire. While Palace can now offer Europa League football after winning the FA Cup, Glasner feels it is important to stay true to the club's principles, which allowed gradual progress, turning the Selhurst Park club into cup winners 12 years after Premier League promotion.
