Palace on the brink of relegation

The Championship season finishes on Sunday when the combatants play their 46th match. West Brom and Newcastle will return to the top flight and will be joined by one of Forest, Cardiff, Leicester, Blackpool or Swansea. Forest must be warm favourites, although it's encouraging to see Leicester in the mix in their first season back following promotion from League One and who could imagine Ian Holloway and Blackpool in the Premier League?
At the other end of the table it's more straightforward. Plymouth and Peterborough have hit rock bottom and return from whence they last came and will be joined by either Sheffield Wednesday or Crystal Palace who slug it out at Hillsborough on Saturday. Palace missed their chance of safety last night when they could only manage a draw at home to promoted West Brom. The game could have gone either way until the death but Palace can have few complaints and will have to face the owls without the influential Neil Dans who got himself sent-off for a head-butt. Defeat in Sheffield would complete a disastrous season for the Eagles which has seen them dive from the verge of the play-offs to a last-match relegation showdown following Administration and the loss of Neil Warnock, all with a matter of months. The calculated decision to take them into liquidation looks like it could back-fire spectacularly on their major creditors who have been unable to find a buyer and they price of the club will drop further if they become a League One outfit.
Sheffield Wednesday have been flirting with the drop themselves for a couple of seasons and have under-performed again as Alan Irvine has tried to steady the ship, but they know that a home win will save them.
Ironic then that a Charlton victory over Leeds on Saturday could open the door for Millwall to snatch promotion. If that's the way it plays out, us fans should have an added incentive for cheering our side through the play-offs to join the Lions and swap with Palace. Defeat on Saturday, of course, and we face the real prospect of all three of us potentially battling it out in League One next season, although the odds on that are probably similar at the moment to the prospect of all three of us being in the Championship?
Did someone say this season would be something of a rollercoaster?