Alpesh Patel

is still new to all this... will Tweets take over the world?

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Olise at the Bernabéu 😮‍💨

#UCL

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

That’s a proper, proper hit from Ebere Eze.

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

Take it away, Hendo x

[Henry Swain @henryswainjourn]

🪄Joel Drakes-Thomas v Kups:

100% dribble success
2 big chances created
100% long pass accuracy
100% pass accuracy in own half
3 shots
1 shot on target
100% tackles won
5/8 ground duel won
4 recoveries

The future is bright #cpfc

[Crystal Palace F.C. Academy @CPFCAcademy]

🦅 George King
🦅 Dean Benamar
🦅 Kaden Rodney
🦅 Joél Drakes-Thomas

🙌 FOUR Academy players in tonight’s starting XI

⭐️ Senior debuts for George, Dean, & Joél

#CPFC

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

A visually impaired Crystal Palace fan at the game in Dublin last night wearing his headset. The technology allows him to be able to see the game in unprecedented detail and it was given to him for free.

Amazing stuff from Crystal Palace! 👏👏

[bald 🇪🇺🏆🏆🏆 @palarsebald]

Sentences are being spoken that have never been spoken before.

[Premier League @premierleague]

✅ Four wins in their last six matches
⛔ Only Arsenal have conceded fewer goals this season
📈 Now fourth in the table

@CPFC are flying high!

[The Palace Way @ThePalaceWay]

That performance from Adam Wharton 👏

He gets it.

#CPFC

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Crystal Palace in 2025: won the FA Cup, won the Community Shield, sold a player for £60m, embarked on a European tour, unbeaten in 4 games against Liverpool (won PL/League Cup, won CS shootout, draw PL), won at Villa Park, Spurs, Old Trafford, won at the Cottage 3x (2x PL, 1x FA Cup) and now in the top 4 of the Premier League. Players know their roles well, execute them well. Oliver Glasner continues to perform wonders. 🦅#CPFC #FULCRY

[🦅 @JSB93x]

Nah I just met Oliver Glasner.

I have never been so excited and scared at the same time.

Told me we will win Sunday.

FUCKING TOLD HIM HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM AND SHOWED HIM MY LOCN SCREEN!

#CPFC

[Steve Parish @CEO4TAG]

Come on Mr Manzi that’s cherry picking of a long ruling to create mischief and make it look like the club had no case. I am sure having diligently read the whole ruling you know that this is not in any way a fair reflection.

I don’t think anyone doubts who makes decisions at the football club - indeed Bobby you generally blame me for pretty much every goal we concede 🤣, so it’s a particularly strange point for you to try to make.

In the context of our case that employment contract is an irrelevant formality. I am one of four main owners and partners and I act as principle partner at the club and again as I am sure you will have read our case was based on three distinct things.

Sporting Merit - the rule says that in the event of a conflict the club that takes precedence is the one that qualifies for the higher UCC comp on ‘Sporting Merit’. We say we won the FA cup and qualified directly for Europa League, as opposed to Lyon who qualified on sporting merit to the Conference League were reclassified into Europa League because PSG won the domestic cup but didn’t need the Europa place having already qualified for the Champions league. The court struggled to find a reason for this clause if it wasn’t to give a club in our situation precedence. Three judges on the panel and we lost this 2-1 - very much ‘hitting the bar’ if you like. We remain of the opinion that we are right on this point and one judge did concur (much as we didn’t want Lyon fans to lose out either )

Anti Trust (unequal treatment) - We knew, and the court and UEFA’s lawyers basically accepted, that other clubs had been given past the 1st March deadline to comply for various reasons, not least because there were conflicting communications about the date and it didn’t leave time to sell or even get clubs into trusts . We were also in turn told by the original panel chair, both on the record and informally, that if the the buyout of the shareholder in question was completed prior to the draw that would likely be a cure as clearly no distortion of the competition could then occur, especially as the process to sell had begun prior to March 1st. On this basis we spent the summer with Woody’s help completing a difficult and complex $200+ transaction only to still be removed.
We strongly believe this was unequal treatment and that were we in any other court where competition law was properly applied we would have won this point. For technical reasons it’s hard for us to get UEFA outside of their own system and into a ‘higher’ court but I believe this will change over time (although not necessarily a good thing overall) .

Decisive Influence - We never argued in court or publicly that JT had no ‘influence’, we argued that in reality myself and the exec team at the club made the decisions and in any event he was 1 of 4 votes so his vote wasn’t in any way decisive, this was backed up by my other partners with whom there is a long standing relationship and a great deal of trust and indeed JT’s own evidence and many public pronouncements that he felt he had no influence. The court sadly for us decided ‘any potential’ for influence is decisive 🤷‍♂️.

As a footnote I would say The UEFA disciplinary and CAS appeal process has some benefits against say the full judicial system that the Premier League have saddled themselves with. It moves faster and allows the system to run effectively but in our view is too skewed towards expedience and as such can produce unfair outcomes and unequal treatment of some clubs.

Apologies for the long post but this is detailed and important stuff, how clubs are treated in these process matters and can’t be dealt with in click bait - In the end we thank the judges for their time and we move forward ❤️💙

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

At 23 years and 345 days, Michael Olise is the youngest Bayern Munich player ever to be involved in five goals in a single Bundesliga game 🔥

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Crystal Palace football club has become the first in the world to offer permanent technology for fans who are visually impaired, to improve their match experience 🥰

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Imagine being Kenny McLean; you grow up desperate to play football, you graft your whole life for it but you’re never sure if you’re going to get to experience a World Cup like the one you watched your country play in as a 6 years old boy.

Then, at the age of 33, an injury to a teammate means you come off the bench early on in a qualification decider, you’re seconds away from winning it, you’ve got the ball at your feet with everyone just hoping to see out the last few delicate seconds and send Scotland there, you’re on the halfway line, the keeper is scrambling back and you think “You know what; bollocks to it!” and smash it towards goal, uncorking bedlam all around you, instantly creating one of the most iconic moments in Scottish football history and becoming a hero forever more.

It’s hard not to be romantic about the game.

[Tampa Palace @CPFC_Tampa]

How good was Tyrick Mitchell off-ball vs Brighton?

13 ball recoveries = 2nd most in a PL match this season & 4th most across Europe’s Big 5 leagues

8 tackles = 3rd most in a PL match all season

1 of just 3 players across Europe’s Big 5 with 8+ tackles & 10+ recoveries

#CPFC

[Gradient Sports @Gradient_Sports]

Tyrick Mitchell's Tackling Grade among full-backs & wing-backs in the Premier League:

2023/24 - 96.8 (1st)
2024/25 - 90.4 (1st)
2025/26 - 87.5 (1st)

Elite defensive output 💪📈

#CPFC

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

The way Crystal Palace harness and develop talent needs to be talked about more 🎨🔥

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

There’s a lot to be said for understanding that we are a perfect showcase for top players to achieve their full potential. It’s a strange headspace to be in knowing that you’re a stop along the way rather than the destination but all of these players have helped us grow and improve as a club, which in turn allows us to attract the next stars and keep on building.

[DR Sports @drsportsmedia]

Ismaïla Sarr has scored the same number of goals as Mo Salah in Liverpool games this season! 😳

#Liverpool #CPFC #CarabaoCup