Wilfried Zaha's five-year contract extension at Crystal Palace not only shows great commitment from the 24-year-old but also great intent from the club.

Zaha's career at Palace has been one of progressive improvement, the winger growing into a player of international stature through hard work, dedication and an effervescence for the sport. He loves to receive the ball, enjoys taking on opponents and strives to contribute to the club's cause.

Much was said at the start of the season about Zaha's...

Farewell, Sam Allardyce. We shall not see your like again. After 44 years in professional football, one of the Premier League's most colourful, divisive and, depending on your perspective, successful managers has chosen to walk away from the game at the age of 62.

His decision to resign from Crystal Palace -- and, if we are to accept his stated intent not to take another job, retire from the game -- is entirely understandable. The Premier League has never been more pressurised or exposed. The...

It's difficult to believe that Sam Allardyce has left Crystal Palace.

The club and manager appeared to have found each other's perfect match, after the calamity of Alan Pardew's drop toward the relegation trapdoor and Allardyce's own fall as England manager. It looked like the right club, for the right manager, at the right time.

While his appointment initially lacked the bounce supposedly afforded to clubs making emergency managerial changes, the players and manager found the momentum to propel...

This was a season of mixed emotions for Crystal Palace, both on and off the pitch.

Having reached the FA Cup Final the previous campaign, talk focused around further establishing the club as a top 10 side, underlined by the signings of Andros Townsend and Christian Benteke. Expectations were that Palace would push on; that it would be a season of transition but a relatively painless one. It was far from that.

Instead of challenging for a top half finish, Palace dropped towards the relegation zone....

And just like that, the 2016-17 Premier League came to an end. It has been a campaign of highs and lows, as Iain Macintosh points out.

Heroes

Eighteen months ago, Chelsea were sliding toward the relegation zone, with Jose Mourinho apparently as welcome in the dressing room as an outbreak of trench foot. After five months of drift under Guus Hiddink, Antonio Conte was charged with fixing them. And it has to be said, he has done a pretty decent job. That dressing room has bitten many a manager in...

A Crystal Palace side already assured of safety and a Manchester United team looking ahead to Wednesday's Europa League final with Ajax combined to produce a match lacking intensity. Palace never really looked like scoring in Sunday's 2-0 defeat, while United barely needed to move out of second gear. It was a tepid end to a difficult season.

Positives

It was a positive that after conceding two goals so early in the game, Palace didn't let their guard drop further. Previous encounters in which Palace...