Now some of the smoke has cleared and dust settled on Palace’s season, if I had to sum up the 2020/21 campaign in one word it would have to be ‘slog’. The past several months has been a grind, with little to captivate, or get excited about. Bar the odd bright spot; the debut season and form of Eberechi Eze, the re-emergence of a goal scorer in the shell of Christian Benteke and a heist of Ocean’s Eleven proportions at the Amex, this has been a season of uninspiring, dull football, with performances lacking dynamism and cohesion, and a feeling of apathy that has seemingly permeated into all aspects of the club. And yet, at no point did I think we would go down, nor were we anywhere near at risk of doing so. What to make of it then?
