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But first, about 15 minutes ago, we got a call from Adam, the Palace fan, who called us on the way from the pub across the road, and we told him he might as well just come in. Why are you calling us a pub? Get yourself in here. Four of his mates have JUST ROCKED UP LIVE ON THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL LIVE now in the TALK SPORTS BAR STUDIO. EAGLE JIMMY, here we go, boys. Listen, Adam, nice to meet you, man. Congrat congratulations. Um, you were having a you having a point in the pub and now all of a sudden you are. Do you know what? We were walking back. So, we've been at Steelard tonight and we were walking back and as I was on hold, I'm thinking I can see the news
building from here. I can see them. They look good from that window. And now look. So, so what an unbelievable night for you guys. Do you know what? There was a phone call just before I got put on hold and the both of you were saying that this was it bigger the FA Cup? Yes, that's right. or tonight. And I every conversation I've had tonight, I've said this is one of the biggest nights in Palace's history because this puts forward what we get in. Right. So, what manager we get, what players we
keep, what players we could potentially get. Yeah. It's true. On the other hand, oh, here we go. Yeah, we do. But on the other hand, I also had a conversation with some Palace fans tonight who won this a few years ago and are currently in the championship. Oh, that's a very good point. You know what? T Adam, I think Jason will agree with me as footballers when we were kids. Yeah. My I wanted to win the FA Cup. Sure. I saw I used to watch it every year. And did you were you the same? Yeah, of course. Absolutely. Look at the introduction of the Premier League and the Champions League, right? There's
obviously levels and financial rewards that but as a young kid growing up, the FA Cup was always the most prestigious. Most difficult to win as well. I think I think it's more difficult to win the FA Cup than to win this. Oh, we've been saying every round, every game up until maybe the quarter semifinals was absolute dross in the Conference League. like some of the teams we were coming up against just low block, 10 men behind the ball, no game to enjoy. It wasn't until we got to those later stages that we actually started to go, hang on a minute, this is a game of football and tonight it was a game of football. So, listen, let's go around the room.
Say, say your name. So, I'm going to point I've meant you before my day. What's your name? Bjorn. Bjön, how are you feeling about today, matey? Honestly, mate, it's uh right up there with the FA. I mean, I'm older, so I appreciate the FA Cup like you do. Yeah. Um, but the FA Cup put us up one stage. Charity Shield helped that. Now, this should help us progress as a club. Hopefully, the board, you know, Parish has done a good job. Hopefully, this push us up with the new stand and everything else. Hopefully, this keeps
on pushing us. Keeps on pushing us. And who knows what's what's next year. And give us your name. I'm Paul. You're Paul? I'm the oldest at the time. You're the oldest. So, I'm waiting for us to fall off the cliff. It's unbeliev FA Cup for me was the biggest. Yeah. You know, because I've seen people pass away that never made it to see us lift the FA Cup. So, it's huge for us. By the way, by the way, what's the prize money for winning tonight? Don't know. Is it a lot of money for the club? I think it's about 11 12 million I think in total to go to the final way through the rounds and get it's about 11 12 million
I think that's what it is. Let's go around the rest of the room. Boys, come with you first, sir. At the end, what um for you? I mean, you look the youngest. You look the youngest of the compliment. I'm the same age as Adam. I'm the son of uh Paul. Um Oh, father and son. Excellent. Yeah. So, um, so for me it's been massive. I've grown up. Palace is my dad's life. It's our life. And, uh, I know that he's absolutely thrilled. FA Cup, now Conference League, uh, Community Shield, three cups in a year. It's amazing. And he'd never he could never picture it. Um, he's gutted he couldn't be at Lipzig today, but we were already planning our Europa away. Of course, I'm going to come to you finally. You're you're and I'm I'm Alex. So this is now the
beginning of another European journey next season. That's it. Absolutely. It's a bit of a strange one for me cuz my dad's a Saints fan, right? So, and it was when I was a lot younger, we met some friends and we went to watch Palace when I was proper young and the atmosphere, it got me like it was something about it and it just like I wasn't that into football when I was a bit younger, but the atmosphere just completely caught me. So, I've just been Palace sort of through and through. Hey, lads, here's a question for you. Who's your favorite alltime Crystal Palace player? Danny Butterfield. Danny scored the perfect actress. Yeah, perfect hat trick.
It was good though, wasn't it? No, probably not down at Butterfield, but that does always come to mind. Yeah. Goal against City Molly. Yeah. Absolutely beautiful. Well, beautiful. Do you know what? From recent years, Daniel Munoz. Oh, well, by the way, have a look at Chelsea. I mean, do you want to see it? Do you know what? I hope not. I hope not because I remember seeing Munoz in his debut at Palace at Curs and he came on as a sub in say 60th minute. I can't remember who we were playing but he was electric.
Yeah. He was at every single Is that a fear and I'll ask this a general question to all of us now. Is that a fear? Because obviously that everyone knows about Waton JP wants to leave. There's other players in there. Laqua Munos. There's a lot of players in there that other teams and understandably so will be going wouldn't mind him. Are you a bit concerned this squad might be broken up? I come to you. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean winning and getting into Europa League is definitely going to help. Obviously you got the big boys going in the Champions League. So but like I say pushing on Europa League maybe we've just done enough to keep those and maybe say give
us one more season. We've done you know maybe thought this was possible. So helps keep those players. Yeah, hopefully. Unless the deal is right, it's going to give you an opportunity. I think the big thing now will be the manager, the next manager. Yeah. What is the What's the clever money? Where are we going on this? What are you hearing? I mean, I've earned his link with Newcastle over in Italy now. Is there But there's so many vacancies. Yeah. Anyone could pick up anyone now, you know, especially with us getting into Europa. So it'd be interesting. I think that's a big thing for us. It wasn't that long ago where the stats come out about Wilfried Zaha. You remember if he didn't play,
he couldn't win a game. Remember that was that haunted us when he was injured as well. He was a big player for us. He was a massive player for us. And to be fair, this isn't just for the players that play today amazing, but it's been over the last 10 years. you know, the players that have got us to this level and pushed on and then Joe Ward there today huge like James Tomkins today was you know it's all to do with them players and then we've just gone to the next level and hopefully we're not going to fall off that cliff and we're going to carry on going. Who knows? Can I jump in there? Go for it. So we spoke Tomkins was at the Steelard tonight as a special guest and I asked him I said to him did you ever
expect Palace to be here tonight? And he looked at me and he said, "No, no." And he said, "But he had a short spell under Glasgner. I think he left a couple of months later." He said he brought in a caliber of players that were just the next level. And he said, attitude. Yeah. And he said Glasnner was an absolute drill sergeant on the It's going to be hard to replace it. I'm going to go around right individually now. Right. I mean, okay. collectively forest and there was a little bit of an angst between look at you're all giggled now look what's out in the forest but there was a bit of a problem that's why he's on the radio there was a bit of an issue with Forest Mariners do he's only protecting his own club I get it but look where you
are I mean you swap places you now you got Europa League football yeah that's the next level though isn't it that's the next you know what so I phoned in to sports bar the day of the FA Cup final you said yeah you And I said to you and Jay that I was worried how we'd get on in the Europa League cuz at that point we didn't know that we'd be conference level. So now going into conference. Are you worried? We'll see how IT GOES. ARE YOU WORRIED AGAIN? But it was a blessing in disguise, was it? Getting into the Conference League and winning tonight as it turns out is a blessing in disguise. And it might be a slower process to becoming that bigger
club. Boys, listen. It's been a pleasure having you in here. Congratulations. But I'm going to go around individually now, right? And asked you all, you listen to Talk Sport, right? Yeah. Favorite presenter on Talk Sport. Can't What do you mean can't say me? Favorite presenter. I like Simon Jordan. Go on. Go around. Simon Jordan. Is that ever Simon Jordan? No. Alan Brazil when I wish him well. Oh, big. Yeah. Simon's not a presenter. No, he's not. Well, he is. He's He's a punty. He's one of us. After meeting you, J. It's got to be Is it me?
After meeting you, it's got to be in it. That's a tap in your This man, the storyeller. Who's the I can't ask about least favorite. There's no point. Seen as he said, I'm the storyteller. Right. Villa Park, Crystal Palace. I'm playing for Villa. Crystal Palace. It's nil. We've got Chris Coleman and Richard Shaw, the center halfs, right? Horrible to play against the pair of them. Like rash. I didn't like playing against either of them. Quick. Chris Coleman. I played with the Wales. Right.
20 minutes to go. It's nil. Someone's someone's got down injured. The physio comes on. So, I walked up to get the bottle of water off the physio. And as I'm drinking it, I can't get a kick of the ball, right? I'm struggling. I never used to say anything, but I'm going to have to try and talk him off. Chris. So, I've gone, um, as I'm drinking the water, he went, he just come over to me. He went, "Uh, nice stadium this day in it." Chris, Chris said to me, right? I went, "Yeah." I said, "Uh, you know, when it's full, magnificent." He goes, "Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good, good." I said, "Wait, wait in a few minutes when I score." They go, they go mad. He went, "What you mean?" I said, "Well, I normally score about now." I
went, "What is it, 20 minutes to go?" I said, "Yeah, I'll get one in a minute." And then watch, they go mad in the stadium. He goes, "You're not get you think you're going to score here." He goes, "Rich Richard." I can't tell you what he called me. He said, "Don't let him score." So, I'm thinking to myself, he's going to give a penalty away at some point. Anyway, as the game was going on, I was going to him, 5 minutes, I'll get one. There's five minutes to go. He's looking at the clock and I never scored coming in. Congratulations by the way is a it's a huge achievement and you know when you win there's something about winning in Europe that's different from
from any other trophy because it you've done it on foreign soil. So boys congratulations. Enjoy your evening. You've been very well behaved. Just before we go ads, I know you lost your dad nine years ago. Um, and I know you want to just kind of probably pay a little bit of a tribute to him as well, right? Absolutely. So, well, at the final last year, me and him, we grabbed it's it's out there at the moment, but there's a little prayer card. Oh, wow. In my wallet and in his wallet and in many people's wallet who my dad touched and we got that out at about 87 minutes. And tonight we did exactly the same. got it out about 87 minutes and there was a clearance that should never have
happened like it was that last boot. Well, no, no, it was about a minute after that where we thought we were finally safe and you know what like my dad was big Palace. He's been with Paul for years and years following the Palace and it's the reason I'm a Palace fan obviously and I know that he would love more than anything seeing us win trophies and the fact that in the last what however many months we've won three Yeah. It's mad. One of them's not a major trophy. Yeah. Whatever. But it's a We'll take it. It's a special moment. It's a day out. Like today we would love to be in Leic.
We would love to be here there and everywhere experiencing it properly. Well, look at this, right? LOOK AT THIS. WE'LL NEVER forget this, will we? Look at this. You'll be able to say, you know, tell your kids or tell your grandchildren, whatever you say. The night we won the Conference League, we ended up with Dean SS and Jess. Well done, lads. Well done. All I want is Eagles behind me, right? I'M TRYING to take action.
