On the 10-year anniversary of CPFC 2010 agreeing a deal in principle to buy Crystal Palace, Chairman Steve Parish has spoken with the Daily Mail about the takeover, his decade since and the club's future.
His interview with Ian Herbert has been published in full below with kind permission from its publisher.
The story of how Steve Parish's 500-word post on a Crystal Palace fans' forum wound up making him owner of the club reflects the powerful, sometimes wildly uncontrollable forces at work in football. At times, the experience has been akin to driving one of the Porsche 911s he used to race.