Crystal Palace captain Scott Dann admits he's played while injured this season.

Dann has had a stop-start season due to injuries, which started when the former Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City man suffered a hamstring injury in the League Cup tie at Southampton in September.

"I have had a couple of niggly injuries over the season and played at times when I probably shouldn't have played, but I always want to be out there," he told the Croydon Advertiser.

"It has been going on since early in the season, I think six or seven games in I picked up an injury [at Southampton in the League Cup] that I shouldn't have really picked up, and shouldn't have really played that game, and I have been trying to get myself fit.

"But I probably have played a few games I shouldn't have played, but I finally feel now that I am back to full fitness and ready to play."