Relief dominates Palace emotions

AN emotional Paul Hart revealed he will start looking for work again next week after ending his short-term contract at Crystal Palace by keeping them in the Championship.

Hart, in charge at Portsmouth and then QPR earlier in a helter-skelter season, was drafted in by Palace’s administrators in January with a brief to ensure the Londoners, a reported £30million in debt, stayed up.

He succeeded thanks to a nerve-shredding 2-2 draw in a last-day relegation decider at Sheffield Wednesday and revealed “it would be no hardship” to carry on.