Neil Warnock Sacked as Crystal Palace Manager: Latest Details and Comments

Neil Warnock has become the first Premier League manager to be sacked in the 2014/15 season after Crystal Palace confirmed his dismissal.

Here’s the club statement in full, courtesy of the Eagles' official website:

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Crystal Palace Football Club can today confirm that Neil Warnock has been relieved of his duties and is no longer first-team manager.

The club would like to put on record its thanks to Neil for all his hard work and energy over the past four months.

Keith Millen will lead the team against Queens Park Rangers tomorrow as caretaker manager.

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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was shocked by the news:

Daniel Storey of Football365 reflected on Warnock's Premier League career as a whole:

The 66-year-old boss joined the Selhurst Park club on the cusp of the current campaign after the surprise departure of Tony Pulis.

And while he has guided Palace to wins over big names such as Liverpool and Everton, the team’s form has been pretty poor overall, as we can see here courtesy of WhoScored.com:

After losing 3-1 at home to Southampton on Boxing Day—a result that left Palace languishing in the relegation zone—the Eagles hierarchy clearly decided enough was enough and will now look for a different man to steer them away from trouble.

Now that one manager has left his post, Sky Sports' Chris Kamara thinks that more could follow:

Naturally, comparisons will be drawn to Ian Holloway’s dismissal by Palace last season with the London club in a similar predicament. In the last campaign, Pulis steered the club to safety in sensational fashion, and now the onus will be on the likes of chairman Steve Parish to find a replacement who can have a comparably positive effect.

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Warnock will have been disappointed to make little impact with a group of talented players. For so long he has been bracketed as a capable Championship-standard manager but someone who struggled when making that step up to the top flight. Unfortunately for him, he has done little to dispel that label, and it remains to be seen if he'll ever get another chance to do so.