2006–07 Crystal Palace F.C. season

Peter Taylor took the job at Crystal Palace after Hull City paid a compensation package of £300,000 to chairman Simon Jordan. For this Jordan received praise from Hull chairman Adam Pearson for his conduct in the process of appointing Taylor.^[1]

Most Palace fans were very pleased with this appointment, and were looking forward to an exciting 2006-07 season.

Taylor made a whole host of summer signings, and despite a superb start which saw Palace at the top of the table after three games, a terrible run of form saw the Eagles slip down the order, falling to 20th at one stage. Despite this, Jordan was content to leave Taylor in charge of first-team affairs, and his faith was rewarded as Palace picked up their form in the post-Christmas period.

After being unbeaten in eight games, the Eagles finally disappointingly lost to Dennis Wise's struggling Leeds United side. Controversy followed the game as Wise revealed an unnamed Leeds player had shared information about the Leeds teamsheet to Taylor's side before the game. Many Palace and Leeds fans believed that former Eagle Shaun Derry might have been the player who shared the information, and though Derry's agent played down these reports, it is notable that Derry rejoined Palace in the following season.

After a season of ups and downs, Palace eventually finished in 12th position.

In June 2007 Jordan succeeded in his High Court battle against Coventry City boss Iain Dowie, with The Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat ruling that Dowie had lied when negotiating his way out of his contract at Palace. Dowie won the right to appeal and thus the case dragged on, finally being settled out of court the following April for an unknown fee.^[2]

Final league table

Main article: 2006–07 Football League

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Sunderland	46	27	7	12	76	47	+29	88
P	2	Birmingham City	46	26	8	12	67	42	+25	86
P	3	Derby County	46	25	9	12	62	46	+16	84
	4	West Bromwich Albion	46	22	10	14	81	55	+26	76
	5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	22	10	14	59	56	+3	76
	6	Southampton	46	21	12	13	77	53	+24	75
	7	Preston North End	46	22	8	16	64	53	+11	74
	8	Stoke City	46	19	16	11	62	41	+21	73
	9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	20	11	15	70	66	+4	71
	10	Colchester United	46	20	9	17	70	56	+14	69
	11	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	16	13	63	62	+1	67
	12	Crystal Palace	46	18	11	17	59	51	+8	65
	13	Cardiff City	46	17	13	16	57	53	+4	64
	14	Ipswich Town	46	18	8	20	64	59	+5	62
	15	Burnley	46	15	12	19	52	49	+3	57
	16	Norwich City	46	16	9	21	56	71	-15	57
	17	Coventry City	46	16	8	22	47	62	-15	56
	18	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	11	21	54	68	-14	53
	19	Leicester City	46	13	14	19	49	64	-15	53
	20	Barnsley	46	15	5	26	53	85	-32	50
	21	Hull City	46	13	10	23	51	67	-16	49
R	22	Southend United	46	10	12	24	47	80	-33	42
R	23	Luton Town	46	10	10	26	53	81	-28	40
R	24	Leeds United	46	13	7	26	46	72	-26	36 ^A

A Deducted 10 points for administration entrance.

Results

Crystal Palace's score comes first^[3]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
5 August 2006	Ipswich Town	A	2-1	25,413	McAnuff, Scowcroft
8 August 2006	Southend United	H	3-1	18,072	Cort, Freedman, Hudson
13 August 2006	Leeds United	H	1-0	17,218	Morrison
19 August 2006	Birmingham City	A	1-2	20,223	McAnuff
26 August 2006	Burnley	H	2-2	16,396	Cort, Scowcroft
9 September 2006	Luton Town	A	1-2	9,187	Scowcroft
12 September 2006	Southampton	H	0-2	17,084
16 September 2006	Norwich City	A	1-0	24,618	Kuqi
23 September 2006	Coventry City	H	1-0	16,093	Morrison
30 September 2006	Hull City	A	1-1	18,099	Cort
14 October 2006	Cardiff City	H	1-2	18,876	Green
17 October 2006	West Bromwich Albion	H	0-2	16,105
21 October 2006	Leicester City	A	1-1	28,762	Soares
28 October 2006	Plymouth Argyle	H	0-1	17,084
31 October 2006	Sheffield Wednesday	A	2-3	19,034	Kuqi, Soares
4 November 2006	Queens Park Rangers	A	2-4	13,989	Soares, Morrison
11 November 2006	Stoke City	H	0-1	18,868
18 November 2006	Barnsley	H	2-0	20,159	Scowcroft, Morrison
25 November 2006	Preston North End	A	0-0	14,202
28 November 2006	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1-1	17,806	Freedman
2 December 2006	Queens Park Rangers	H	3-0	17,017	Freedman, Kuqi, Morrison
9 December 2006	Colchester United	H	1-3	16,762	Morrison
16 December 2006	Derby County	A	0-1	23,875
22 December 2006	Sunderland	H	1-0	17,439	Hudson
26 December 2006	Southampton	A	1-1	30,548	McAnuff
30 December 2006	Cardiff City	A	0-0	13,704
1 January 2007	Norwich City	H	3-1	16,765	Hudson, Kuqi, Green
13 January 2007	Coventry City	A	4-2	16,582	Fletcher, Kuqi, Cort, McAnuff
20 January 2007	Hull City	H	1-1	17,012	Fletcher
30 January 2007	Sunderland	A	0-0	26,958
3 February 2007	Ipswich Town	H	2-0	17,090	Cort, Ifill
10 February 2007	Leeds United	A	1-2	19,228	Cort
17 February 2007	Birmingham City	H	0-1	17,233
20 February 2007	Southend United	A	1-0	10,419	Ifill
24 February 2007	Luton Town	H	2-1	16,177	Morrison (2)
3 March 2007	Burnley	A	1-1	10,659	Morrison
10 March 2007	Leicester City	H	2-0	16,969	Fletcher, Watson (pen)
14 March 2007	West Bromwich Albion	A	3-2	17,960	Morrison, Watson (pen), Grabban
17 March 2007	Plymouth Argyle	A	0-1	11,239
31 March 2007	Sheffield Wednesday	A	1-2	21,523	Morrison
7 April 2007	Preston North End	H	3-0	15,985	Kuqi (2), Cort
9 April 2007	Stoke City	A	1-2	13,616	Zakuani (own goal)
14 April 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	2-2	17,981	Hudson, McAnuff
21 April 2007	Barnsley	A	0-2	10,277
29 April 2007	Derby County	H	2-0	19,545	Morrison, Kennedy
6 May 2007	Colchester United	A	2-0	5,857	Scowcroft, Watson

FA Cup

Main article: 2006–07 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	6 January 2007	Swindon Town	H	2-1	10,238	Kuqi, McAnuff
R4	27 January 2007	Preston North End	H	0-2	8,422

League Cup

Main article: 2006–07 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	22 August 2006	Notts County	H	1-2	4,481	Hughes

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Scott Flinders
2	DF	Matthew Lawrence
3	DF	Danny Granville
4	DF	Darren Ward
5	DF	Mark Hudson
6	DF	Leon Cort^[5]
7	MF	Jobi McAnuff^[6]
8	FW	James Scowcroft
9	FW	Dougie Freedman
11	FW	Clinton Morrison^[7]
12	GK	Julián Speroni
14	MF	Ben Watson
15	MF	Mark Kennedy
16	MF	Tommy Black
17	MF	Michael Hughes
18	DF	Gary Borrowdale

No.	Position	Player
19	MF	Tom Soares
20	DF	Danny Butterfield
21	MF	Dave Martin
23	MF	Carl Fletcher
25	MF	Stuart Green
27	MF	Paul Ifill^[8]
28	GK	Gábor Király
31	DF	Arron Fray
32	FW	Shefki Kuqi
33	FW	Lewis Grabban
34	MF	Phil Starkey
35	DF	Rhoys Wiggins
36	MF	Lewwis Spence
37	FW	Charlie Sheringham
38	GK	David Wilkinson
40	MF	Ryan Hall

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
10		FW	Jon Macken (to Derby County)
22		FW	Marco Reich (to Kickers Offenbach)

No.		Position	Player
29		GK	Iain Turner (on loan from Everton)
30		FW	Sándor Torghelle (to Panathinaikos)

Transfers

In

Mark Kennedy - Wolverhampton Wanderers, free
Scott Flinders - Barnsley
James Scowcroft - Coventry City, £500,000
Carl Fletcher - West Ham United, £400,000
Matthew Lawrence - Millwall
Stuart Green - Hull City, £75,000
Shefki Kuqi - Blackburn Rovers, £2,500,000
Paul Ifill - Sheffield United, £750,000
Dave Martin - Dartford, £25,000

Out

Mikele Leigertwood - Sheffield United, £600,000
Sam Togwell - Barnsley
Tony Popovic - Al-Arabi, free
Glenn Wilson - Rushden & Diamonds, free
Emmerson Boyce - Wigan Athletic, £1,000,000
Nathan Simpson - Torquay United, free
Marco Reich - Kickers Offenbach, free

References

↑ "Taylor named new Palace manager". BBC Sport. 13 June 2006. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
↑ "Palace chief wins £1m court case". BBC News. 14 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
↑ http://www.statto.com/football/teams/crystal-palace/2006-2007/results
↑ http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2006-2007/flcham/cpalace.htm
↑ Cort was born in England.
↑ McAnuff was born in England.
↑ Clinton was born in England.
↑ Ifill was born in England.

Crystal Palace Football Club

Club	Crystal Palace F.C. Original 1861 club Managers Players

Grounds	Crystal Palace Stadium Herne Hill Velodrome The Nest Selhurst Park Milton Keynes relocation proposals

Rivalries	M23 derby South London derby

Subsidiary teams	Crystal Palace LFC

Crystal Palace F.C. seasons

1905–06
1906–07
1907–08
1908–09
1909–10
1910–11
1911–12
1912–13
1913–14
1914–15
1915–16
1916–17
1917–18
1918–19
1919–20
1920–21
1921–22
1922–23
1923–24
1924–25
1925–26
1926–27
1927–28
1928–29
1929–30
1930–31
1931–32
1932–33
1933–34
1934–35
1935–36
1936–37
1937–38
1938–39
1939–40
1940–41
1941–42
1942–43
1943–44
1944–45
1945–46
1946–47
1947–48
1948–49
1949–50
1950–51
1951–52
1952–53
1953–54
1954–55
1955–56
1956–57
1957–58
1958–59
1959–60
1960–61
1961–62
1962–63
1963–64
1964–65
1965–66
1966–67
1967–68
1968–69
1969–70
1970–71
1971–72
1972–73
1973–74
1974–75
1975–76
1976–77
1977–78
1978–79
1979–80
1980–81
1981–82
1982–83
1983–84
1984–85
1985–86
1986–87
1987–88
1988–89
1989–90
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–2000
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16

2006–07 in English football

« 2005–06

2007–08 »

FA competitions

Premier League and
Football League

Football Conference

Football Conference (National, North, South)

Lower leagues

European competitions

Related to national team

Other events

2006 allegations of corruption in English football

Club seasons

FA Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Charlton Athletic Chelsea Everton Fulham Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Portsmouth Reading Sheffield United Tottenham Hotspur Watford West Ham United Wigan Athletic

Championship	Barnsley Birmingham City Burnley Cardiff City Colchester United Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Hull City Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Luton Town Norwich City Plymouth Argyle Preston North End Queens Park Rangers Sheffield Wednesday Southampton Southend United Stoke City Sunderland West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers

League One	Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford City Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Carlisle United Cheltenham Town Chesterfield Crewe Alexandra Doncaster Rovers Gillingham Huddersfield Town Leyton Orient Millwall Northampton Town Nottingham Forest Oldham Athletic Port Vale Rotherham United Scunthorpe United Swansea City Tranmere Rovers Yeovil Town

League Two	Accrington Stanley Barnet Boston United Bristol Rovers Bury Chester City Darlington Grimsby Town Hartlepool United Hereford United Lincoln City Macclesfield Town Mansfield Town Milton Keynes Dons Notts County Peterborough United Rochdale Shrewsbury Town Stockport County Swindon Town Torquay United Walsall Wrexham Wycombe Wanderers

Conference National	Aldershot Town Altrincham Burton Albion Cambridge United Crawley Town Dagenham & Redbridge Exeter City Forest Green Rovers Gravesend & Northfleet Grays Athletic Halifax Town Kidderminster Harriers Morecambe Northwich Victoria Oxford United Rushden & Diamonds Southport St Albans City Stafford Rangers Stevenage Borough Tamworth Weymouth Woking York City

Others	AFC Wimbledon F.C. United of Manchester Gateshead Newport County

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, February 09, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.