Crystal Palace marked Dougie Freedman’s testimonial with a goalless draw against Premiership side Fulham.

Neither goalkeeper had a meaningful save to make in the match but the evening was more about celebrating the veteran Scots decade at the club.

On Freedman’s night he was last to emerge from the tunnel before kick-off, receiving a lengthy round of applause from the Selhurst Park faithful as he made his way to the centre circle with his four children.

He almost had a dream start to the match too but failed to connect with Nick Carle’s throughball just three minutes in.

He was substituted three minutes before half time to another standing ovation before being joined on pitch by a host of Palace legends during the break.

The match itself was pretty dire, with the only real action of the first half seeing Calvin Andrew head wide from Danny Butterfield’s ball.

Fulham’s best chance was Eddie Johnson’s deflected effort that went just wide.

The Premiership side started the second half better though and Erik Nevland headed Wayne Brown’s cross over before Brown hit the side netting.

Home debutant Simon Thomas weakly headed Butterfield’s cross straight at David Stockdale on 60 minutes and Victor Moses should have celebrated his new four-year contract with a goal three minutes later but shot over following good work by Sean Scannell.

Carle shot over from 25 yards on 72 minutes and James Dayton had a chance to wrap up victory but shot over two minutes from the end.

Thomas also had a good chance in the last minute but his header went wide.

Palace: Speroni, Hill (Wiggins, 80), Butterfield, Fonte (Ertl h-t), McCarthy, Derry (Comley, 74), Carle (Dayton, 76), Soares (Fletcher, 74), Ifill (Thomas), Freedman(fan, Moses), Andrew (Thomas)

Players and managers introduced at half time: Dean Austin, Phil Barber, Dave Bassett, Tommy Black, Mark Bright, Jim Cannon, Matt Clarke, Curtis Fleming, Dean Gordon, Danny Granville, Ray Houghton, Andy Johnson, Steve Kember, Andy Linighan, Dave Martin, Damien Matthew, Alan Pardew, Aki Riihilahti, Simon Rodger, Wayne Routledge, John Salako, George Ndah, Richard Shaw, Neil Shipperley, Jamie Smith, Ron Noades, Geoff Thomas and Marc Edworthy.