Crystal Palace hero Mark Bright is delighted to be back with the club.

Bright has now returned to Palace as a member of staff, the director of the under-23 development squad, a job he wasn't sure he would take when he was offered it.

“I went down and had a look and I thought, I owe this club something because this club made me. It's like being a loan manager. In the Premier League you have players who are not quite ready so they go out on loan. I'm part of that process of trying to help.

“You just take great pleasure in seeing someone from your academy playing in the first team because that's what it's all about. I enjoy it, I really do, but there's nothing that beats playing. Nothing comes even close.

“I'm happy I achieved what I achieved. I would have loved to win something, of course, because that's why you're in the game. The game's about glory. I have a look at my career and I wouldn't swap it.

I was in an engineering factory before I became a footballer. So, if you ask me which one would I rather do, I know which one it would be."