Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £70m

Another trip to Merseyside for our gallant Band of Brothers. In these strange times, a happy hunting ground recently with the annual destruction of the RS and two unnervingly fine wins at Goodison. A conversation with any of that lot above about four wins on the trot on Merseyside they would have laughed hysterically before plummeting towards relegation and awaiting the arrival of Big Mal.

Heady days then down at SE25. Fast, skillfull and excellent service from the back -at least the half time queues on the Holmesdale concourse have improved. On the pitch Palace have confounded fans and sceptics alike (usually one and the same).
At the back we are relatively solid. Hennesey wears the jersey at the moment and is not too shabby. Ward and Souare at full back tend to attack better than defend such is the curse of the modern full back. Dann has got his annual howler out of the way and Damo will fight every man here and drink with him afterwards.

All led by Pards; Hate him or hate him even more he is doing a great job and has somewhat modified his prattish ways since arriving back in the homeland. He is immensely popular with us which is increased immensely with a mischievous peek at the horse botherers forums.
Zahas U Boat Captain antics have earned him a one match ban so will not be gracing the old lady on Monday but Bolasie will be around causing his usual mayhem for both sides.
This would be the part where Chico descends into his "scruffs, bellwhiffs and blerts" section but I rise majestically above that (in a Connor Wickham kind of a way) to simply wish you chaps a splendid evening despite the inevitable result and hope you win every game bar one for the rest of the season.

So Delobarca -do your worst.
EAGLES! EAGLES!