Crystal Palace has a day

It was only a few months ago that I said Crystal Palace didn't have a chance of staying in the Premier League this year.

A few weeks ago the situation looked better, but it was still uncertain.

With the 5-0 drubbing of Leicester City (three of the goals happened after Leicester went down to 10 men on a red card), they are pretty certain to stay in the league for the next season.

This is somewhat amazing. No other team had lost seven straight fixtures (games) in the history of the PL (and they didn't even score a goal in those games).

It was an extremely deep hole that they had to try to climb out of. But amazingly enough, they managed to do that. Given that Manchester City ran away with the championship early, the survival of Palace is one of the remarkable stories of the season.

It just so happens that 5-0 is the biggest win CP has ever had in the Premier League.

Here's a video of the game. If you watch it, you'll see that one of the first highlights was a stellar goal-saving defensive play. Kind of typical of their season - do whatever it takes.




Here's how the Daily Mail reported it.

Crystal Palace 5-0 Leicester: Wilfried Zaha leads the charge as Roy Hodgson's men run riot at Selhurst Park after Marc Albrighton receives straight red card