Words simply cannot do justice to the immense pride I have in this club at after our performance on Tuesday night.

Destitute, down and out but fighting like warriors in the face of huge overwhelming adversity.

Last week I spoke of how important Neil Warnock’s role would be in this testing time and he hasn’t disappointed.

Only at Palace would you find a story like this.

In a time of crisis, we, as a club are standing up to be counted whether that be Danny Butterfield enjoying the best six minutes 48 seconds of his life (don’t tell Mrs B) or us, the fans, who having been awoken from our lethargy and burst into life, creating a truly emotional atmosphere.

All we need now is a buyer to wake up and realise both what this club means to people and is capable of and all our problems will be over.

Unfortunately, one thing you learn by being around Selhurst Park for too long is that we never do things the easy way and as good as the £500,000 FA Cup windfall may sound, we are merely at the end of the beginning in terms of our off-field fight for survival.

As happy as some were that we only lost Victor Moses to the vultures, we realistically needed to recoup more and now we face losing players on loan instead to ease the wage bill.

Either way we will lose players but this way our debt will be barely dented compared to what could have been achieved by selling players.

A lot of what is good about Palace at the moment is embodied in Warnock who is going about his business with a messianic quality.

In the absence of Simon Jordan he has taken the club by the scruff of the neck and is now the focal point of our battle for the existence.

But has he exercised too much control over the club in the past couple of days?

On Monday evening he expressed his glee that both Nathaniel Clyne and Neil Danns turned down moves, which while on the face of it is good news, when you look at the long-term implications for the club the excitement soon turns back to worry.

The administrator was desperate for more to leave during the window as selling players whether we like it or not was our only way out of trouble.

Warnock was vocal in the press last week insisting that the team should be kept together and spoke specifically about the likes of Danns and Clyne.

So did he use his influence with the players to ensure that he had a team that he thought was capable of Championship survival and in doing so has he taken a huge risk with our club?

I understand his desire not see his side broken up on the cheap but we have found ourselves having to borrow another £1 million from Agilo to cover this month's wages.

This leaves us only £1.5 million better off after receiving the already meagre £2.5 million Moses money.

Admittedly the lack of movement also had a great deal to do with the sheer temerity and classless behaviour of other clubs who have this week been quicker to pillage our club than a Danny Butterfield hat-trick.

If Moses had been sold for his true market value then Agilo’s debt would have been a thing of the past.

But the most blood boiling story to come out of this week was that Chelsea amongst others saw fit to try and snatch some of our younger academy lads.

You have to wonder what they’re spending their Rubles on at Stamford Bridge if they’re having to pilfer poor old Palace’s kids.