Perhaps by gentleman’s agreement they could just agree to play the second half without a ball at all?
Benteke can’t believe he almost scored
Who wants to prank call @cynicaloldgit and tell him Palace scored?
Villa 2-0. Oh dear.
Great match. So many stories.
If you did not know which kit was which, you could go long stretches trying to guess at which side had the man advantage
I think Palace has to shut it down now
I was dosing in the first half and had that problem.
Sorry, that was crazy defending. Palace left three men up the pitch. Hoping to counter? Idiots.
Anybody alert @cynicaloldgit.
My prediction: Benteke will score, @Scott.Jones will be elated, Grealish will make it 3-1
There’s $5 in it for whoever does
Game over 3-0 maybe we broke palace.
I was pretty much right. We broke Palace.
I think it was probably over at 1-0…this is woeful, fascinatingly so.
I noticed very few CP players hustling back to get back into that counter. Gave El-Ghazi all afternoon to shoot. Looked like an NFL place kick.
This is the kind of match that breaks a team. Palace are probably not going to face relegation, but that is because other teams are just so so weak.
Considering they drew with Spurs having been one down.
I can see a future where Crystal Palace beg refs not to send opposing players off. “No, please! Leave him on! He didn’t do anything bad!”
Poor old Woy will have his face rubbed away.