Ben Watson

They look for that.

You've got Ben Watson's son who went to Chelsea.

Sean Derry's son.

Solako's son just left Palace.

definitely.

Sean, your Palace team, we talk about it a lot because obviously you were up against it for years, like financially, the club, and they blooded so many young players.

But the team you had around you you had some actual worldies in your squad I think Nathaniel Klein Victor Moses Wilfred Zaha um just just as the players that came through the system um Ben Watson Ben Watson sorry yeah obviously he goes Wigan um what was special about that group

togetherness was insane man and like it's like you had the the balance from the young and the old but respect in the group was was crazy man like there was no big timers there wasn't everyone knew their place and it just worked and you had like a manager as well you had walnut as well there that he wasn't like, he was serious, but he like, one of the managers that he had, you knew he had you.

yeah we're not watching that he's with his mate Carragher the Liverpool all that stuff come out but no I got looked after it was really good having a look around Chelsea speaking to a few different people speaking to Xabi as well he was really excited about a lot of the young players they've got coming through there he was saying really he

said the lad who was at Wigan it's Ben Watson

I think it's Sunday he says really good looks really good but no so we'll kill the interview basically and then on the back of that the Tottenham game didn't go particularly well so it feels like it's a big game for Carrick obviously but I think it's a big game for Xabi as well in terms of the support he needs to get a victory

go on no go on no I was just going to say going into it we're absolutely dreadful but I think it's a weakness of Chelsea that I'm sort of looking at it and without Jal Pedro their defence looks a bit weak erm He saw what Spurs did last week.

To go after a club, to think, "Well, what about this football club? Should we make a bid for it?" Somebody else does, and you didn't.

Well, I think sliding door, I mean, sliding, the biggest sliding door for m- for me at Palace was Ben Watson missing a penalty against Bristol City in the semifinals of the playoffs.

Um, to, to, to take us back into the situation, we would lost the first leg 2-1.

They scored two.

This is what we're doing.

Get to it or get lost." And you saw over the course of time some, some decisions, I think to like when Ben Watson left.

You remember Ben Watson was playing and then left and he was at Forest the next day and you're like, "How the fuck did that happen?" But ultimately they were like, "We, we think he's holding somebody else back," or, "He's taking somebody else's place." Or even better, "We just think someone's better, so we're gonna go get him.

Deal with it." Miguel Layún Remember when he start, everyone forgets he started the first year in, um, in the, in the, in the Prem squad in our fir- first game against Everton.

Yeah.

We had Max.

We had Prodl.

We had Ben Watson.

A couple of you have said that you loathe the theme tune, and I... probably agree so if there isn't a theme tune then please know that you're it was taken on board it just feels a bit stark just starting straight away with uh with chat um i love that i love the friendship that's developing mark now crystal palace down the years uh, has thrown up some really lovely friendships.

So Michael Hughes back in the day, 20 odd years ago, coined this phrase, the three Musketeers about Sean Derry, Danny, Danny Butterfield, and Ben Watson.

Apparently those three were.

Oh, right.

They once had a bet.

Uh, it was, I'm trying to remember who was on whose team.

I think Ben Watson lost the bet and he had to shave his head because if Danny Butterfield had lost the bet, he wasn't allowed to have his hair cut for the rest of the season.

I think it was the 03-04 season.

So Reggie Watson is, is quite clearly someone that we need to take pretty seriously, and I know that Chelsea are taking his development incredibly seriously.

The son, of course, of, uh, FA Cup winner Ben Watson.

Uh, but the under 17s is dominated by Manchester City.

Um, of the top 10 players for minutes played in this camp, five of them play for Manchester City.