http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:10:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Walking into the Sports Cafe in Glasgow tonight to meet BBSers Marshy and Gosling I can't say I was particularly optimistic about the ninety minutes that was ahead of us. That didn't really improve when the sleepy abode refused to turn down the music and let us watch the game ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/so-near-and-yet-so-far/ Great, just like two years ago. Another bad time to pick to play badly at home in the first leg of a play-off semi final. The good news? Despite our poor performance at least a 2-1 deficit is retrievable, unlike the mountain we gave ourselves to climb against Watford. Texting my best ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/in-a-word-arrrgghhh/ Today is one of those days where I feel daft for worrying. Prior to kick-off at Selhurst Park and knowing that a win would assure us of a play-off place I somehow felt that we typically wouldn't make it that easy on ourselves. But what do I know? I've only ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/burnley-your-summer-starts-now-thank-you/ Well, perhaps it was a bit much to expect us to win all our games in April, not that it makes today's 2-1 defeat at automatic promotion-chasing Hull City any more bearable. That Hull's winner from Ian Ashbee came in the dying minutes, and that it seemed to be so ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/the-bump-in-the-road/ Who would have expected April to go this well? I know I didn't, not with trips to Stoke, Watfod and Hull on the horizon. We started the month by beating Stoke, and after our solitary home game we have continued by beating Watford 2-0 at Vicarage Road yesterday. Anyone who wasn't ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/two-down-one-to-go/ At a time in the season where consistency is key Palace (of all teams!) seem to have discovered it. Yesterday we beat Scunthorpe 2-0 at Selhurst Park, with first-half goals from Tom Soares and Clinton Morrison both securing another three points for us as well as relegating the visitors out ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/palace-continue-to-be-upwardly-mobile-relegate-scunthorpe/ Good evening everyone, got your breath back after that frightening second half? Yikes, that took some sitting through. I was pretty pleased to be 2-0 up at half-time after goals from Tom Soares (ably setup by Scott Sinclair) and Jose Fonte (with a scorcher of a volley), although I might have ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/stoke-swept-aside-palace-return-to-play-off-positions/ Call it a personal thing, but when we don't beat the team which was promoted through the play-offs I tend to think we're underachieving. And despite what Neil Warnock claimed were two certain penalties we were denied a victory against last year's league one play-off winners, Blackpool. Today also saw the ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/draw-with-blackpool-leaves-us-with-a-mountain-to-climb/ Kind of typical late Saturday afternoon if (like me) you can't get to a lot of games. Sky Sports News on, Soccer Saturday with all the updates. As is seemingly usual, we're one of the last results to come in. It's about ten to five, I've given up on us coming ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/draw-at-hillsborough-whos-more-gutted/ It had been rumoured for a few days, but today came confirmation via The Croydon Guardian that the club will return top playing in white shirts with a red and blue sash coming across from the left shoulder. Personally I would have liked to have had red and blue stripes at ... http://www.cpfc-scotland.co.uk/clubnews/2008/a-return-to-the-sash/