We can only hope we can only pray that Palace will be beached on coming Saturday Shakespeare some 400 years ago! Masky well read! Intellectual! Leonard Cohen was a great friend...rubbed off!
Such culture and class on this board. I however, am clearly a philistine as I thought "The Palace" was a poem by Kipling. (you know - the cakes guy).
Funny thing happened on my way to the forum today, thus: I walked into Tesco garage to get myself a drink, when I noticed 2 policemen watching some fella SMOKING while filling up with petrol. I looked at this guy and thought he doesn't have any common sense at all or care about his own life or the lives of others around him and he was stupid for filling up with fuel and smoking at the same time AND with the Police right there too!Anyway, I went in and got my drink and as I was checking out, I heard someone screaming so looked outside and the fellas arm was on fire He was swinging his arm and running around going crazy. I ran outside and the Police had put him on the ground and were putting the fire out with their coffees!! YES, THEIR COFFEES, then they put handcuffs on him and threw him in the police car. I was thinking he shouldn't have been smoking near the pump while getting petrol, but being the nosey person that I am...I asked the Police what they were arresting him for? The Police man looked at me and said "WAVING A FIREARM" Was going to post this on Dai’s joke thread, but realised he has paid “fug all” for my contributions to date! Oh you see we’re off to sunny Spain on Viva and MasterCard!
Masky can see a similar score line to the time Malcolm Allison brought his team to NP, in a relegation game. We won 1-0 and stayed up....5-0! Kenneth “Pussy Willow” Zohore should be fit for Cardiff but Aron Gunnarsson is a doubt and Harry Arter is likely to miss out. Sol Bamba, Callum Paterson, Joe Ralls and Matthew Connolly are all sidelined for the remainder of the season. Crystal Palace will be without Christian Benteke, who took a blow job to his cheekbone during the draw with Everton and has not trained all week. Mamadou Sakho, James Tomkins, Jeffrey Schlupp and Pape Souare are also ruled out by injuries, Glen Murray won’t play, that’s a given! @Wilsonfooty: The first part of the only realistic equation which would see Cardiff avoid relegation is that they must win both their remaining games: Palace at home and Manchester United away. Then Brighton must fail to earn more than one point in their last two games - at Arsenal and at home to Manchester City. However, Cardiff have only won back-to-back Premier League games once this season and they haven't won at Old Trafford since 1954. Palace deserve credit for assuring safety with something to spare but they're an unexceptional side, over-reliant on Wilfred Zaha - who clearly intends to leave them. With four years of his contract to run, Palace can call the shots on that one. But Zaha will be keen to impress at Cardiff, where he had an almost instantly forgettable loan spell five years ago. Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock: "We've got to win this game. If we don't we can forget it, so we've got to concentrate on that really. "We always give effort and sometimes we are a bit limited. But with two games to go we're still in it. "I'm a bit sad. You're bound to feel a bit sad. One or two more points would see us in a different situation. I think we may have accepted where we are at the beginning of the season. We'll give it our best shot against Palace." Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: "There is no doubt they [Cardiff] have been good at home this season and had some good results, and they have been unlucky at times. They have done very well as a club to still be in the fight with two games left. "We have to expect a very motivated team, a team that will give its all to cling to the last chances of staying in the league, and hoping they can win while Brighton don't. We have a desire to win the game as well." Sadly for Cardiff, I think this game might sum up their season. You cannot fault their efforts over the past few months but ultimately they have not had enough quality to stay in the top flight. Prediction: 1-1 Lawro's Premier League predictions v golfer Tommy Fleetwood Head-to-head Cardiff have failed to score in all three previous Premier League meetings, losing twice and drawing the other. The Bluebirds have won only one of their last five league matches against Palace (D1, L3), a 2-1 home Championship triumph in 2012. However, the Eagles have recorded just one victory in their previous nine trips to Cardiff (D4, L4). Cardiff City Cardiff could become the first team to have played in at least two Premier League seasons and been relegated each time. They have lost eight of their past 10 league fixtures, winning the other two. The Bluebirds have equalled their top-flight club record of 23 defeats in a season, set in 1956-57. Neil Warnock's side have won five of eight home league matches against fellow sides currently in the bottom half of the table (D2, L1). However, they have only scored nine first-half league goals this season, the lowest tally in the division. Warnock could suffer a third top-flight relegation, with his previous ones coming with Notts County in 1991-92 and Sheffield United in 2006-07. Crystal Palace Crystal Palace have relegated three different sides over the past three seasons: Hull, Stoke and then Huddersfield earlier this term. Patrick van Aanholt scored the final goal in each of those games. The Eagles have claimed 16 away points in 2019, second only to Manchester City's 21. They have won four of their past five away fixtures, only losing at Tottenham during that run. Palace have kept a clean sheet in their last four away league games against promoted sides, winning each of the last three 2-0. The Eagles have equalled their Premier League club record of 12 clean sheets in a 38-match season. Wilfried Zaha has scored five goals in his last six away league appearances. Eight of his nine goals this season have come on the road. Gonna miss Masky, magnificent fella, proud to be his dancing bollocks TBH, proud!
Masky and his bollocks will be a big loss - especially his bollocks. No reason why he can't post from Spain though. They have the interweb there. No need for translation either. We can understand him however garbled his pists (Ooops. Typo there. Bit like they copper in 'Allo "Allo). Don't give up on us Masky Man. This board will be a dull place without your bollocks. You might even be in the Prediction League Div. 1 next season. You and your bollocks can play with the big boys and their's.
The thought of a proud Masky going anywhere near the vicinity of your undercarriage BFB pal, fills me with a rotting dread! No Masky Pal with sever his long held association with Cardiff City, and the ****e that has gone with it, an overall become a better well balanced individual for the world to enjoy! They say the other side is not necessarily greener, but Masky is gonna cleanse his sweaty bollocks in the sun!
How will I ever cleanse my brain of the image from that last sentence? However, if that's how it's going to be........ F**k off you old cnut. No hard feelings. Definitely no hard feelings. I'm speaking for myself, not you.
Niasse not even on the bench. Plenty of pace up front. Looks like a 415 formation. Too little too late? Cardiff 1Etheridge 2Peltier 4Morrison 5Ecuele Manga 3Bennett 19Mendez-Laing 17Gunnarsson 21Camarasa 11Murphy 14De Cordova-Reid 9Ward Substitutes 6Richards 10Zohore 15Bacuna 18Cunningham 28Murphy 32Healey 33Hoilett
Must work hard tonight, Hoping for a win for my mate who is at the game. Cant afford to lose so 2 - 1 Cardiff please...
Just not good enough. Average Championship quality. Chance for Ken to come on and make his name. We can dream.
