{"id":78865,"date":"2015-01-02T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=78865"},"modified":"2015-01-02T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:54:05","slug":"alan-pardew-start-crystal-palace-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=78865","title":{"rendered":"Alan Pardew to start at Crystal Palace on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Pardew will start work as Crystal Palace boss on Friday, according to caretaker boss Keith Millen.<\/p>\n

Pardew was in the stands to watch the London club\u00a0draw 0-0 at Aston Villa\u00a0on Thursday, with his\u00a0appointment as Palace boss\u00a0appearing to be imminent.<\/p>\n

Millen says the 53-year-old will help prepare the team for Sunday’s FA Cup third-round tie against Conference side Dover Athletic.<\/p>\n

Pardew moves to Palace after four years in charge of Newcastle United.<\/p>\n

When asked if Pardew’s appointment was still on track, Millen responded: “I think so. I don’t think he would have been at the game if there was a problem. He wouldn’t have been sitting in the stands.<\/p>\n

“I kept the lads in the know from what I knew from the chairman. Before the game, when we left the hotel, we weren’t sure, but then I got a message to say Alan was coming.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t have any input during the game or before it, but he came in after and was pleased and proud with what he saw.<\/p>\n

“He said we need to add more to our game to score more goals and win football matches, but it’s a good start for Alan to see us.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully he can improve the team and make us better.”<\/p>\n

\"Keith<\/p>\n

Caretaker boss Keith Millen has been in charge of Palace following the sacking of Neil Warnock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pardew will take over a side in the Premier League relegation zone, with the point at Villa not enough to take them out of the bottom three.<\/p>\n

Palace are now without a win in eight league games – a run dating back to the 3-1 home win over Liverpool on 23 November.<\/p>\n

However, they have claimed two points from their last two games.<\/p>\n

Millen lamented Yannick Bolasie’s shot hitting the crossbar at Villa in what was the closest either side came to breaking the deadlock.<\/p>\n

“If that goes in, the way we are set up, it would have been hard for them to get back into the game,” said Millen.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Pardew will start work as Crystal Palace boss on Friday, according to caretaker boss Keith Millen. Pardew was in the stands to watch the London club\u00a0draw 0-0 at Aston Villa\u00a0on Thursday, with his\u00a0appointment as Palace boss\u00a0appearing to be imminent. Millen says the 53-year-old will help prepare the team for Sunday’s FA Cup third-round tie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-78865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}