'I retired there and then' - Freedman explains Palace return

Dougie Freedman was still playing when Paul Hart offered him his first full-time management role.

Crystal Palace were just six weeks into administration and Hart was assembling a backroom team to battle relegation and, potentially, the club's collapse.

"I knew Paul Hart from Nottingham Forest," Freedman explains in the second part of a Palace TV exclusive. "He’d been the youth team boss.

"Paul gave me a call and I was still playing at Southend with a two- or three-year contract, and enjoying myself. Paul Hart said: ‘The club went into administration, I’ve been called in to do a job. I need some help, I need some players still fit enough to demonstrate some drills.’ At this time I was really…