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Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock has hailed the club's meteoric rise up the Championship table as the greatest achievement of his career.

The Eagles were second from bottom in mid-November and looked to be heading for a relegation battle before Warnock engineered a 15-game unbeaten run that saw them rise to fifth in little over two months.

Despite a blip of six matches without a win, Palace have only lost once in their last twelve games to secure a play-off spot, a feat Warnock is very proud of.

"From my own point of view I can't think of a better achievement that I've had in my career than second from bottom in November to getting us in the play-offs, let alone winning them," he said.

"It's an achievement for all the lads, they've really knuckled down and done well, and what has been asked of them.

"It's been a great challenge, one of my most difficult challenges. We've not spent a lot of money and we've brought the kids in because nobody wanted to play for us and the fans have gradually got better throughout the season."

Palace had their first full house of the season against Burnley on Sunday after Eagles fans answered Warnock's call to turn Selhurst Park into a cauldron of noise, and he loved the atmosphere.

He said: "Mick Jones said to me "I can't believe it could get any better than that here".

"That's the first time we've seen a full house and it was a fantastic atmosphere. It's like I thought, horrible place, horrible fans, horrible dressing rooms, great for me that. All the ingredients."

12:29pm Tuesday 6th May 2008

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