Sunday 15 November 2015 09:17, UK
Crystal Palace players are to abandon plans to travel to Paris for their Christmas party later this month.
The first-team squad had put plans in place to visit the French capital on November 28 after their match against Newcastle United, but will now seek an alternative destination.
A senior Crystal Palace player confirmed to Sky Sports News HQ the trip was now unlikely to go ahead, and that even if it did they would not travel with their team-mates. Manager Alan Pardew would be mindful not to allow his players to travel en masse to the city, so soon after 129 people were killed and hundreds more injured in six co-ordinated terror attacks.
Crystal Palace defender Martin Kelly was in Paris on Friday night, although he confirmed to Sky Sports News HQ that he was not at one of the venues targeted.
Kelly also clarified he was not the man photographed in widespread media reports helping victims of the atrocity.
The Stade de France, which was hosting a friendly match between France and Germany was targeted by three suicide bombers.
Lassana Diarra, who was playing for France in that match, has said his cousin was killed in the attacks while team-mate Antoine Griezmann's sister escaped from the Bataclan music venue that was one of the targets.
