Palace finishes with a win

Crystal Palace finished the Premier League season with a 2-0 win over relegated West Bromwich Albion.  They ended up 11th in the table, tied with Newcastle United and Bournemouth on points at 44, but the goal differential put them behind Newcastle and ahead of Bournemouth.

As I've noted before, that's a pretty impressive way to finish the season when it started with seven straight losses and no goals.

It's an interesting league when it's expected that one of six teams will very likely win the championship and the rest will be also-rans or survivors.  Because of money and tradition, that's the way the Premier League goes, with the occasional supremely rare exception of a Leicester City.

But anyway, the Crystal Palace Eagles survive to play another season in England's highest-level league.

Crystal Palace 2-0 West Brom: Wilfried Zaha and Patrick van Aanholt secure final-day win for Eagles as Darren Moore's Baggies go down with a whimper