• League defeat at Swansea was club’s sixth in succession
The Crystal Palace co-owners will need to see evidence that Alan Pardew is willing to make radical changes to his own approach and to gauge the players’ reaction in training this week before determining whether he still has a future as manager of the ailing London club.
Palace lost their sixth successive league game, 5-4 at struggling Swansea City, on Saturday to leave them outside the relegation places on goal difference only and Pardew’s stewardship hanging by a thread. Senior figures at Selhurst Park were taking stock on Sunday after the latest embarrassing defeat, the visitors’ 4-3 lead having been overhauled in the last six minutes at the Liberty Stadium. The co-owner and chairman, Steve Parish, has consistently backed the manager, secured at significant expense from Newcastle United almost two years ago.
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