Crystal Palace supporters are not used to this attention. After an unforgettable 2025 that broke new ground for the south London club as they won their first major trophy, the first few weeks of 2026 have thrust Palace into the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Dumped out of the FA Cup as holders by Macclesfield in one of the competition’s biggest shocks, there followed a double bombshell a week later that the captain Marc Guéhi was being sold to Manchester City and the manager, Oliver Glasner, would depart at the end of the season.
