Crystal Palace: Neil Warnock set to be named as new manager 
By David Ornstein
BBC Sport
Crystal Palace are set to appoint Neil Warnock as their new manager.The 65-year-old, who was in charge of Palace between 2007 and 2010, has been preferred to former West Brom boss Steve Clarke.Palace chairman and co-owner Steve Parish has turned to Warnock as a successor to Tony Pulis after Malky Mackay was ruled out last week.
Warnock has money to spend and discussions will continue over the make-up of his backroom staff.
The London club are
keen for caretaker manager Keith Millen to be integrated into the new set-up.Both Warnock and Clarke were interviewed this week after Palace turned their back on Mackay, and Tim Sherwood pulled out of the running.Pulis left on 14 August, just 48 hours before the new Premier League season.
Warnock has been out of work since parting company with Leeds in April 2013, although in March he turned down the opportunity to manage Nottingham Forest.
His return to Selhurst Park will see the colourful manager reunited with winger Jason Puncheon,
who was fined £15,000 by the Football Association for comments on Twitter after taking exception to criticism from Warnock about a penalty miss against Tottenham.
Warnock's previous stint as Palace manager ended as the Eagles went into administration and suffered a subsequent 10-point deduction. The club dropped from Championship play-off contenders to a battle against relegation, which they narrowly avoided.
Former Stoke City boss Pulis won the Premier League's manager of the year award last season after guiding Palace from bottom of the table,
the position they occupied when he took over from Ian Holloway in November 2013, to an 11th-placed finish.
But he became frustrated by the failure to land a number of summer transfer targets and left the club by mutual consent only 48 hours before the start of the new season.
Mackay had been the favourite for the job until allegations emerged of misconduct during his time at Cardiff.
He has admitted sending offensive text messages, allegedly shared with Iain Moody,
who worked as head of recruitment at Cardiff before being sacked in October and quit his role as Palace's sporting director last week after the claims emerged.
Under Millen, Palace have lost their opening two league matches, 2-1 at Arsenal and 3-1 at home to West Ham, but secured a 3-0 away win over Walsall in the Capital One Cup second round on Tuesday night.
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