When Gareth Southgate joined Crystal Palace’s academy as a teenager ... alone that make for a talented breeding ground. “Does a building in itself create a fantastic environment and culture?

In 2002, Channel 4 showed us life at the Crystal Palace academy with docuseries The Players. Twenty years later, the same broadcaster has followed the same club’s academy once again. For all ...

His answer was even more so. “Let’s just say it was raw.” Powell is describing the state of the Crystal Palace academy when he arrived in 2015. The facilities on a site shared by the five-a ...

(THE GUARDIAN) - Crystal Palace have ... Issott joined Palace from Tottenham and has been instrumental over recent years in building a productive academy system, through which Palace have ...