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Today: A pointless reign, red-hot car boot sale cancellation news and a reader’s appreciation of Friday’s Chester FC picture choice

Crystal Palace have always had progressive tendencies. Often this has been manifest in the club’s clobber: the modernist CP logo of the early 70s; the time they wore their numbers on their sleeves; the white shirt with iconic blue-and-red diagonal sash. Other times it becomes apparent in their style of play, as anyone who recalls the fun side built by Terry Venables back in the day will attest. No doubt the fact that the self-styled Team of the Eighties got themselves relegated from the top flight in 1981 and didn’t get back until 1989, the entire decade they were supposed to define having passed them by, will be painted by some as hubristic failure on an epic scale. But only by cynics whose price-to-value ratio is all out of whack. At least Palace aimed for the stars. At least they tried.

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