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Parish still purring over Gayle's wonder goal at Aston Villa
STEVE PARISH has looked back on Dwight Gayle's goal at Aston Villa last season with admiration.
The last-gasp strike won goal of the season at the club's awards night earlier in May.
And Parish says he had a feeling Gayle would score a second gem at Fulham when he stepped up for the free-kick with several minutes remaining.
"I think, technically, Dwight's goal at Villa was our best," he said.
"You have to put it into context it as well. It was a nothing sort of game, he comes on, a long ball down the pitch and it was Ian Wright-esque.
"There was nothing on, oh well, I'll just stick it in the top corner. What a wonderful story.
"And that third goal against Liverpool, it was Wright and Bright when Glenn Murray chested it down for him.
"I think he deserved the accolade for goal of the season at Villa. He has played more than his part this season, even though he hasn't had that many minutes.
"When he put it down for the free-kick at Fulham, I did think he was going to score as well.
"Give him a chance and he will score.
"I was actually disappointed he didn't get a hat-trick against Liverpool too!"
How Parish tied a Socceroo down at Crystal Palace
PALACE co-chairman Steve Parish has revealed the day he was first made aware of midfield dynamo Mile Jedinak by former boss Dougie Freedman.
The Australian skipper is set to lead his country into the World Cup, with their first game kicking off at 11pm today (Friday) against Chile.
It was certainly an impressive season for Jedinak with Palace in the Premier League, and Parish has described the 29-year-old as the club's "strength and energy", pointing to his qualities on and off the pitch.
"I remember I secured him on a new deal between Ian Holloway leaving and Tony Pulis arriving last season," Parish said.
"I would like to think that was a big, pivotal moment for the season as well because, make no mistake, maybe he hasn't received some of the plaudits he deserves.
"He is our strength and energy, our belief system. I think words 'model pro' were invented for Mile Jedinak.
"I think every single day he trains like it's his last. Every game he plays like it's his last.
"I remember when Dougie brought him to the club, he said to me, 'Steve, this player, when you see him, he's a man, he's just a monster of a man!'
"He said I would learn to love him. He first came and we were all looking at his passing ability, it took a little while for him to get used to the pace of the English game and settle into the country.
"But I have to say, Dougie has been right completely. He's a fabulous player and he's been here three seasons now.
"I am pleased to say we got him tied down on a longer contract. In fact, our website company FLI came in to see me and asked why we have so many fans in Australia, because we get so many hits from out there.
"He epitomises what our side has been about and he's a huge, huge part of it."
Adlene Guedioura missed out on the chance to feature for Algeria in Brazil, while Palace could have had a representative for England in Joel Ward.
The versatile defender was ranked highly by a number of statistics companies at the end of the season and was in the top six English defenders in the Premier League.
And Parish believes Ward will get a chance to play for the Three Lions in the future if he continues to progress.
"I think Joel has been sensational for us," he said.
"Could he go to Brazil and do a great job? Absolutely. He has never let us down anywhere he's played on the pitch but I just think not getting picked for England then getting picked for a World Cup is not going to happen.
"Hopefully his time is next time – and it will come."
Millen hails Delaney as Crystal Palace's defensive rock
KEITH MILLEN says he tried to sign centre-back Damien Delaney when he was manager at Bristol City more than two years ago and has praised the Republic of Ireland international for another season at Palace.
On the back of helping the Eagles into the Premier League, Delaney has stepped up superbly to form a solid partnership with both Danny Gabbidon and Scott Dann.
But in the summer of 2012, he was close to walking away from the English game completely.
"I spoke to him when I was Bristol City manager in January 2012 and his head had gone," Millen said.
"I think he was thinking of quitting the game or going abroad to America.
"I tried to persuade him to come to Bristol, and I can't remember now why it fell through or the finances put forward, but I didn't sign him.
"For him to go from there in his career to have two great years at Palace, he's been so consistent. I think that has coincided with how the team has been set up as well this season."
Palace's defence was certainly a lot stronger following Tony Pulis' arrival in November, but their shut-outs were also down to getting used to the Premier League and learning from mistakes at the start of the season.
Millen says he and Pulis went through all the goals the Eagles had conceded from August and made it their mission to stop the silly errors.
"When you analyse the first 12 to 15 games, we were making mistakes and getting punished," he said.
"It would be interesting to go through them all again, but I bet if you analysed it there were a lot of sloppy goals we gave away.
"From December onwards, we've hardly given any soft goals away or penalties.
"At the start of the season we were diving in and going one or two goals down, and all of a sudden in the second half of the season we've learnt very quickly that we can't do that.
"I remember in the month I was in charge, myself and Tony analysed the goals we'd conceded and I think something like 16 out of the 20 were goals we could have done better.
"They weren't great goals to concede. We just said to cut out those sort of goals and mistakes and we'll give ourselves a better chance of winning.
"It's a big thing moving forward that we carry on doing that."
Meanwhile, Millen believes Palace will "thrive" on being the underdogs once again next season against the bigger sides in the Premier League.
But that tag should bring the best out of the Eagles squad as they aim to build on last season's 11th-place finish.
"Tony made a great point to the players that when we come back next season, we'll be favourites for relegation again and they'll have to get that in their mindset of how it will be," said Millen.
"It's a great way to look at it, and I think we'll probably be in the bottom four favourites.
"But if we're the underdogs, we're a group that seem to thrive and get better like that.
"I think that brings the best out of the group so we have to continue thinking like that."