• Pardew frustrated after defeat by Watford and Pape Souaré red card
• A patched-up Palace will face Spurs in FA Cup fifth roundThis was not how Alan Pardew had planned it. With Sunday’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at Tottenham Hotspur on the horizon,the Crystal Palace manager was supposed to take his players to Spain this week in a tender to replicate the conditions that helped Steve Coppell’s side reach Wembley in 1990 with their Premier League future already in the bag.
Yet after failing against Watford to add to their grand total of one point from seven games in 2016, Pardew and his staff know they enjoy a major job on their hands. Despite Emmanuel Adebayor’s first goal in a Palace shirt, and this latest defeat has left supporters fearing the worst.
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Source: theguardian.com