On this day in 2010, Crystal Palace lost 3-0 to Nottingham Forest in the Championship in a game that Calvin Andrew and Andy Dorman were named in the starting line-up. Palace were struggling toward the bottom of the Championship. Tomorrow they play Stoke for the chance to move up to fouth in the Premier League. Theres no way that Palace or Stoke fans could have possibly imagined that players of the calibre of Yohan Cabaye and Bojan who was part of the Barcelona squad that won the Champions League that season would be turning out for their teams in game that could see Palace moving up to fourth if results went their way a mere five years later. The astronomical sums of money that are being chucked at both clubs mean that neither sets of fans have probably seen the last of the superstar internationals turning out for their clubs. Financial Fair Play - and the fact that top clubs can only have twenty five players in their squads at any one time - means that many more top players will be available to clubs that would probably have felt a bit embarrassed even being linked to only a year or two ago
