And what about Alan Pardew in the Manchester City hot seat?

The former Newcastle boss believes he and other British talents are overlooked for the top jobs in England, an issue which frustrates him.

"Myself, Sam Allardyce, Tony Pulis, Mark Hughes to a degree, we are all experienced managers who have not really had a top club," Pardew told Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek.

"The chances are very, very slim. We are underestimated as a group, but I would say that because I am part of that group. It annoys me in so much as I look at the top teams and feel I could do that job better than I am seeing it being done."

In reference to our last post Manchester City fans, rule Peter Crouch out of any transfer splurge. He has taken to the Twittersphere to rule out any move to Etihad Stadium.

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If Manchester City fail to win the Premier League this season, should they change their manager?

If so, who would they get? And are there any obvious key signings needed?

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Paul Pogba in midfield? Rafa Benitez in the dug out? Maybe they could tempt sir Alex off the golf course?

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Manchester City's fall from a side bang in the title mix to fourth place seemed unthinkable in December, when the Premier League champions went unbeaten, picking up 16 points from 18.

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What a difference three months has made and they now stand on the brink of three straight Premier League away defeats.

They have lost three league matches in 2015, only one fewer than in the whole of 2014.

Manchester City have Yaya Toure fit to play on the ground where he scored last season.

The Ivorian was a doubt after suffering an achilles problem but joins Fernandinho in midfield as both Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero start up front.

He is one of five changes to the team which started the 3-0 win over West Brom, with Zabaleta, Mangala, Fernando, Lampard and Bony all making way.

Palace make only a single change from their win at Stoke, Martin Kelly is in for Pape Souare.

Crystal Palace XI: Speroni, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Kelly, Zaha, Ledley, McArthur, Bolasie, Puncheon, Murray.

Man City XI: Hart, Sagna, Kompany, Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Fernandinho, Toure, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero.

Crystal Palace's home fans are a tough bunch to drown out noise wise but Manchester City have put on a fleet of free buses for their travelling followers tonight.

It's a lengthy 218-mile trip to south-east London and a return potentially hours before the working week starts looms. Not the type of journey you need after a defeat.

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Some news from Manchester Evening News reporter Stuart Brennan though, the buses have hit traffic and could miss kick-off., external

No such thing as a free lunch as they say.

When Manchester City's players do a lap of honour at the end of the season, most likely without the Premier League trophy, they will look at January to the end of March as a period where their fingers were wrenched off the title.

Since drawing at Everton on 10 January, they have won just four times, dropping points with the consistency of an M6 traffic jam.

Over the same number of games, Chelsea have not lost, winning seven from 10. Peek-a-boo, Jose's smiling...

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How rude of Wigan Athletic to interrupt our Premier League build-up flow. Apologies Crystal Palace and Manchester City fans, your team news will drop any minute now.

If you'd rather use your ears than your eyes, then you can listen to BBC Radio 5 live for full commentary from south-east London.

Just when you thought the football weekend was about to simmer down... BANG... nothing like a managerial sacking, or in this case "parting" of company, to jazz things up.

Who am I talking about? Malky Mackay.

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Wigan Athletic - beaten by Derby County earlier - have got rid of the Scot, who joined in November.

The Latics find themselves eight points from Championship safety with five games to play. Keep across the BBC Sport website for the full story.

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If you can lift your head from the Easter egg trough long enough to look at the Premier League table, you'll notice just how crucial tonight is. Chelsea could hold a seven-point lead by the time you go to bed after that next egg, belly full, guilt-ridden, but satisfied.

Now Chelsea fans apart, no one really wants the title race finished in early April do they? So what have you got Manchester City? The finish of champions, or a final slump to an empty-handed season?

Selhurst Park was a title hope graveyard last season.

The tears, the broken hearts, the farewell to dreams - now nightmares which run over and over and over...

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The home faithful love it. Boisterous, colourful, they revel in the role of spanner in the works...

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And tonight, Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini - 'the engineer' - will be only to aware of a Crystal Palace shaped spanner.

Dropped points could all but end the Premier League title race before Easter eggs have been consumed...