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'It's like emerging from an abusive relationship': Steve Parish is delighting in 'pathetic' Big Six getting a bloody nose after European Super League failure as new series tells tale of how Crystal Palace went from brink of liquidation to Premier League

A new documentary series on Crystal Palace which airs from Friday night offers a compelling insight into how it is to have a lifelong fan of the club as your owner.

Steve Parish carries such a weight of responsibility that he travels to away games with Mark Bright, desperate to glean any fragments of knowledge he can.

When his hugely successful first manager, club legend Dougie Freedman, ups and leaves for a better gig at Bolton and things start to falter, he can't stop telling his successor, Ian Holloway, what Dougie would have done.

Steve Parish features in a new documentary, When Eagles Dare, charting how Crystal Palace went from the brink of liquidation in 2010 to an established Premier League club
Palace finished 14th in the Premier League in 2020-21, comfortably clear of relegation danger

'In the end, I had to say, "For Christ's sake, he left you," Holloway relates, in a memorable contribution to the film.