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Kouyaté: "You want to cry but at the same time you don’t want to cry in front of your teammates"

The matchday programme for Sunday's clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers will be available to buy for £3.50 from various points around the ground and en route to Selhurst Park.

We don't reckon you'll be able to read our interview with Cheikhou Kouyaté without ending it with a big smile on your face; what a character our Africa Cup of Nations finalist is. Hear from the midfielder on the summer in Egypt, playing centre-back and Luka Milivojevic's rise as a teammate at Anderlecht to Kouyaté's captain in SE25.

Here's a snippet from that interview:

Kouyaté added: “It’s very, very hard because you’re the captain but you want to cry but at the same time you don’t want to cry in front of your teammates, especially the younger ones as you need to show them how to deal with the setback.