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Live - Crystal Palace v Bristol City

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The biggest prize in football? Forget your Jules Rimets, your European Cups and your Premier League titles.

Winning promotion from the Championship is thought to guarantee a football club in the region of £60m in these crazy times in which we live.

Today sees the first leg of the first play-off of this year's end-of-season rollercoaster, with lottery legend Neil Warnock's Crystal Palace taking on Gary Johnson's Bristol City.

You don't need me to tell you how massive this is (unless I just did), so get in the mixer.

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posted May 10, 2008

epic goal, i loved every second of that ball in motion.

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posted May 10, 2008

Palacefanforlife
yeah... your home form was good too ?
well we know its not all over yet but our players confidence will come on leaps and bounds now we got back to our earlier season form , so welcome to the gate see you tuesday

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posted May 10, 2008

COME ON BRISTOL CITY!!!

See you in the prem league next season!

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posted May 10, 2008

Just had a post removed from here because some idiot claimed it was defamatory. I suggested that the penalty award was wrong, as it was a dive, and that Warnock was an embarrassment. If you can't make comments like that on a football board, what is the point? Pathetic.

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posted May 10, 2008

Bristol City will be much more fired up than Palace. They would never have dreamed of being on the brink of the Premiership and they have set themselves up superbly with this result.

However, Crystal Palace and Warnock have plenty of experience in these situations so nothing's settled yet.

City will be turned over if they set up not to lose or think the hard part is already over so their approach to the game is likely to determine who goes through. Palace will obviously only be looking for the win.

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posted May 10, 2008

Well done the City! Personally I couldn't bear have that idiot Calin Wonker spouting off rubbish and behaving like the fool he is in the PL - at least in the Championship he's not so high profile.

I bet that right now he's looking back over Bristol City's season to see if anyone fielded an 'under-strengh' side against them...so he can have a good rant about it to anyone stupid enough to listen to him.

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posted May 10, 2008

If city play the normal game they will win. It's not our game to play for a draw

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comment by hiffuk (U10448555)

posted May 10, 2008

As a City fan the thought of promotion to me is now higher than it was, 2 weeks ago when we couldnt buy a win.

We are coming into form, at the right time and i believe we will get prototed via the playoffs.

The match itself is far from over but i think the boys will be up for it big time.

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posted May 11, 2008

The world must seem very strange when viewed in Warnock-vision. Referees are responsible for every defeat of his team. They are no doubt also to blame for the credit crunch, global warming and the rise of the ASBO generation. The referee in the Palace versus Bristol City game yesterday had a pretty good afternoon, despite denying Bristol City a cast-iron penalty. On this occasion, the better team won, playing the better football and showing more determination. The fault, if there is any for the Palace defeat, lies, not with the referee, but with the lack of imagination shown by the Palace team and particularly by their manager. You lost Mr Warnock, fair and square. Get over it.

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