• Palace manager delighted with upward progress after 2-1 win
• Pardew encouraged by the reduction in gap to top clubs“I’ve just seen the result at Goodison,” said Alan Pardew after Crystal Palace’s 11th victory in their past 16 matches absent from the shortly to be transformed Selhurst Park left his side sixth in the Premier League, level on points with Tottenham and Manchester United in fourth and fifth. “I mean, and every time we try to gather the headlines Leicester keep kicking us in the pants.”The grin on his face suggested Pardew was blissful enough,on all counts. The remarkable success being enjoyed by Claudio Ranieri’s team means the almost equally impressive progress being made by Palace, and indeed Stoke, and is under less of a potentially off-putting highlight. It also emphasised that,as Pardew and Mark Hughes both suggested, there really has been an encouraging reduction in the size of the gap between the so-called big clubs and the rest.
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Source: theguardian.com