The soul of the club is back. Two stunning comebacks against Spurs and Burnley have fuelled fantastic scenes of jubilation as the club celebrated Alan Pardew’s first two league games in style.

With the exception of the compelling 3-1 victory over Liverpool, the atmosphere and optimism had grown stale during Neil Warnock’s tenure and with the obvious exception of the crucial six points. It just brilliant feels like we have our club back.

Tony Pulis is a name that is cussed at in and around South London these days, but there is no denying he gave the club something special. We were spoiled with emphatic home performances and exuberant atmospheres and it was something Warnock simply could not replicate.

Despite this being only our second successive season in the Premier League, fans had grown almost fearful of coming to watch us play, particularly on our home turf following some quite frankly disgraceful defeats to Sunderland, Aston Villa and Southampton. That fear has been turned back to excitement.

Naturally, there was a pre-match buzz around the ground prior to the home game against Spurs in anticipation of witnessing Alan Pardew emerge from the tunnel again as one of our own.

The Tottenham game was the first chance many had to see the Palace cult hero lead the team as many fans weren’t fortunate enough to get tickets for the trip to Dover the previous week and boy did Pardew give us a treat.

Following the Tottenham turnaround, Super Al was fully aware that the club needed to keep their feet on the ground as we faced a difficult trip up north to snowy Burnley the following week in a game that could only be described as a relegation six-pointer. And just 15 minutes in, it looked like the elation was to be short-lived as two lacklustre individual errors from Julian Speroni and Joel Ward saw us stunned at 2-0 down. It was at this point where we saw the key difference between Alan Pardew and his predecessor Neil Warnock. We showed fight, courage and class to drag ourselves from the dead to earn the three points, a feat that would never have happened under Warnock.

The statistics show that Pardew has earned 16 points from losing positions this season, showing the influence he can have on a team. He will now have a greater understanding of his squad after playing home and away in the league.

Of course, he is continuing to adapt to his new surroundings every day and will take going behind twice as a learning curve for him; he rectified his mistakes quickly and reverted back to a 4-5-1 after conceding two early goals. This honesty and bravery is certainly refreshing to see, particularly when we were made to witness a number of displays under Warnock where he remained too stubborn to appreciate he was getting it wrong.

Two consecutive wins is great for any club in a relegation fight and the only thing that keeps struggling clubs up in this league is momentum. This honeymoon period won’t last forever and Pardew needs to make sure we can accumulate as many points as we can from a very attractive run of games to get the club to that magic 40 point mark as soon as possible.

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