5 Ways Yohan Cabaye Shows Crystal Palace Have Changed Forever
4. No Guilt
After former Chairman Ron Noades tore apart and relegated a team that had finished third in the old First Division and got to an FA Cup final, Mark Goldbergs Five Year Plan that ended in administration after a year and Simon Jordans decade long fake tanned, brash, not paying agents, confrontational style, its often felt like we are a club that are on the outside looking in. Palace fans could easily be forgiven for blanching at the idea of a £10m signing and the club actually finding the money behind the sofa to pay some wages. We are a basket case of a club. A club of two recent administrations. A club of occasional cup runs that lost its youth players when the bigger fish came calling. A club that somehow managed to get relegated on forty-nine points after being nine points ahead with three games to play after a celebratory lap of honour. A club that lost their manager two days before the start of last season. A yo yo club that coined the awful term bouncebackability. Basically, a club famous for anything other than footballing achievement. Our fans and club should never, ever forget where we came from: but instead of only reminding ourselves of our past, we can also remind ourselves of where we are now. I think we simply could not accept that we deserved to be where we were and be linked with who we were linked with. We now have to accept that we are a cash-rich, mid-table Premier League club and we shouldn't feel guilty about that.
