Following his recent retirement, former club captain Mile Jedinak has received the Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Crystal Palace Football Club from Steve Parish.
Jedinak, who played 179 times for Palace, announced his retirement two weeks ago, and club Chairman Parish wasted no time in recognising the stalwart for his services over five years.
Selecting Jedinak as his second ever recipient for the Chairman’s award after Julian Speroni’s recognition last year, Parish said: “[Jedinak] is a very special player, a very special person. He’s just retired from the game. When he arrived he came to us from Turkey, I think we had to pay the princely sum of £50,000 to secure his services.