Colin is back

Last updated : 11 October 2007 By Tony Scholes
The self confessed Blade has been out of football since leaving Bramall Lane in the summer, only his second break since he first marched into the Football League as Scarborough manager when they became the first club to win automatic promotion in 1987 at the expense of Lincoln.

His arrival at Selhurst Park today is no surprise, provided he's been able to fight his way through the traffic to the most difficult of grounds to reach. He was named as virtually the only candidate once the Legend had lost his job on Monday.

This will be Warnock's ninth club and Palace will be hoping he can add to the six promotions he's already won, including taking both Notts County and Sheffield United into the top division.

Warnock said after leaving Sheffield United that he wanted one more opportunity and he's confirmed that today saying: "This will be my last job. The chairman Simon Jordan and I are ambitious people who want to achieve."

Jordan was delighted to get his man and said: "I know I have the right man. It is a dream ticket. We both say what we mean and we mean what we say. I always used to benchmark our progress at Palace by the results we had against Neil Warnock's Sheffield United."

eith Curle and Mick Jones will both be joining Warnock at Palace whilst Legend Peter Taylor could be set to make a sensational return to Gillingham, the club he brought up through the play offs seven years ago after the Clarets had pipped them for automatic promotion.