Five years have passed since CPFC2010 took over the club from administration, with many memorable and important matches... but Patrick Stevens gives his personal top five... with deep analysis into the importance.

1. January 1st 2011. Millwall 3-0 Crystal Palace 

Maybe a strange place to start for many. Certainly it was a very low point and not what people might expect in a piece to celebrate five glorious years. But on that awful day at the New Den, just a few months into the new era of CPFC 2010, on New Years Day, we were destroyed by our South London Rivals. It was an abject performance, we were woeful and the future looked bleak. But, in what was to become a feature of the next five years, the Board reacted and did so decisively and positively. The hapless George Burley was sacked and immediately replaced by club legend Dougie Freedman who went on to lead us to safety.

Without such a savage beating, by fierce rivals, on an iconic day, that may not have happened and we may have drifted on to relegation and League 1 and, if that had happened, all that followed could not have been possible. So yes; this is where my list begins.

Oh, and one other thing. Anyone remember who scored the three goals that day? Yes, Jason Puncheon, clearly on his uppers and on loan with the Lions. I like to believe that this match was also the day when he got up close and personal to the wonderful Palace fans and decided that his true ambition was to don the red and blue of Palace again. And if I am right (and who's to say I'm not) then the this game takes on even more significance...

2. September 27th 2011. Brighton 1-3 Crystal Palace

FFS Murray! Only nine months later and what a difference! So why his one? Well where do I start? Perhaps beating our fiercest rivals away at their new stadium might be reason enough. But this was not just the destruction of our main rivals away, it was their first ever defeat at the Amex - and that fact, my friends, will last forever. It was also the game when we began to play with a bit of class and swagger with little Johnny Williams in particular showing that we had some players, even the beginnings of a team, capable of stepping up a level. Then there was Glenn Murray. Discarded by Brighton and signed on a free, he scored the winner in the dying seconds and it was captured in that immortal video immediately giving the club a lift beyond anything the PR department could have dreamed of. 'FFS Murray!' Was the cry and in that moment a legend was born; a legend who would go on to be one of the main stays of any future success. How important was that moment? Would Glenn have become the man to score the 30 goals next season without it? What part did that win play in our crucial win at the Amex the following season? I can't be sure, but I reckon his was the moment both events can be traced back to. And above all, it means we can still laugh at Brighton.

So thanks Glenn and thanks to that Brighton fan for posting on YouTube. And that is why I put it as the most important result that season.

3. May 13th 2013 Brighton 0-2 Crystal Palace: Championship Play off Semi-Final 2nd Leg

Such a wonderful season up to Christmas was thrown off course by Zaha's transfer to Man Utd, and a very poor run in. We had limped over the play offs line the week before with a 3-2 win at home to relegated Peterborough (arguably therefore itself one of the most important moments with Kevin Phillips and Mile Jedinak scoring crucial late goals) and then not only drew at home to Brighton in the first leg of the semi final but also lost our talismanic centre forward to a tragic and serious injury.

How bad did it look? How cocky were the Brighton fans? But then came that match. The poo; the plastic clappers; Wilf throwing off his shackles and becoming the stuff of Palace legend. Sure, many might pick that fabulous day at Wembley a month later, when Kevin Phillips scored that penalty and sent us all into dreamland, but that would never have happened but for that tense, tight and ultimately terrific night away at Brighton.

And let's not forget that in a recent Survey of Brighton fans, most cited this match as the moment everything went wrong for Brighton.

Get's us to Wembley, helps us get promoted and destroys our rivals. Yes. This one is definitely on the list.

4. November 9th 2013 Crystal Palace 0 -0 Everton 

What? A 0-0 draw at home to Everton? In a season when we beat Chelsea at home to begin a five match winning streak that took us to dizzy mid table heights? When Muzza came off the bench in a dire match away at Swansea and scored his first premiership goal to start our road to safety? When a week later, with Tony Pulis watching in the stands as the new manager, Barry Bannan scored that glorious goal to win 1-0 away at Hull? When we had Crystanbul? 0-0 at home to Everton!?

Well, yes, actually.

Two games before this game we were stuffed 4-1 at home by Fulham and looked finished. We had our then manager Ollie Holloway decide he could take no more and walked out. We had a crucial search for a manager and our premiership survival (never achieved before) was in severe doubt. No one gave us a chance. Well, Cometh the hour cometh the man; step forward Keith Millen.

The 2-0 defeat flattered them and made most discerning fans think perhaps we were turning a corner. Perhaps that's what made the 2-0 defeat away at West Brom the following week all the more disappointing, but again the performance was good and we were (genuinely) unlucky. But we needed to start getting results.

So, next was Everton at home. A massive massive game, against a (then) top 8 side. I remember that game, tight, tense, nerve wracking, but where we saw was the emergence of the team spirit that was so lauded under Pulis. The boys played, and crucially defended, as a unit and looked capable of competing. We even had our moments. We wanted to win, but crucially we could not afford to lose. So, as injury time came and it was still 0-0 the fear as Everton got a free kick in the edge of our box was palpable; I could barely look. Not another glorious defeat on the road to relegation surely!? But no, the free kick was saved and we played out to a proper, well deserved 0-0 draw. We meant business. We could compete in this league against serious teams.

5. May 2015 Crystal Palace 1 Swansea 0

So onto my last choice and this last season. Again, so much to choose from and so many crucial games and big wins: Dwight Gayle's late winner at Burnley turning a two nil deficit into a crucial 3-2 win; the late 2-1 win v Spurs at home in Pardew's first league game that set us on our way; or the 2-1 win at home v Man City (I haven't even mentioned doing the double over Liverpool, as we take that in our stride now). So why am I going for an apparently irrelevant last day match between two teams with seemingly nothing to play for.

Why? Because in that game, while no one was looking, we nicked a 1-0 and with other results going our way we moved up two places to finish tenth: our highest ever finish in the premier league. Put aside the extra two million that gave us, even that the goal was scored by Marouanne Chamakh (a player seen as lazy at Arsenal, but who joined Palace, worked as hard as anyone, injected some much needed calm and class, and in some ways epitomised our transformation). No, this was important because it beautifully capped a wonderful season and perfectly ended a perfect five years. Five years in which every season now had been better than the one before.

It also established us as a solid mid table side as we begin the next five years

So, here's to you all who shared this journey. With apologies if I have missed your favourite game. It comes with enormous and genuine thanks to CPFC 2010 for giving us all these five wonderful years.

What a plan.... What a ride!