Readers of a weekly newspaper look ‘spot on’ with Premier side Crystal Palace’s new boss.

They plumped for the name of former Cardiff manager Malky Mackay in an exclusive poll in the Croydon Advertiser.

More than a quarter who voted settled on the man set to be installed today in the hot seat vacated by last season’s Manager of the Year Tony Pulis.

The Advertiser’s online poll, launched on Sunday, saw bookies’ favourite Tim Sherwood take 23 per cent of votes; former West Brom manager Steve Clarke 19 per cent while ex-Manchester United boss David Moyes managed just 13 per cent of the share of votes.

For Advertiser editor Glenn Ebrey, the poll result was a welcome reversal of fortune after the weekly’s pre-season supplement on Palace suffered an ‘own goal’ from the unlikeliest of sources.

Its 12-page in-depth circulation booster, highlighting the build-up to the 2014-15 season, was dealt an ‘added time blow’ by Pulis’s decision to walk out in a dispute over the club’s transfer policy.

Pulis had been featured on the front cover, most of the inside pages and in a natty cartoon headline Pulis Academy 2.

But an early press deadline meant the departing manager KEPT his pivotal place in the Advertiser’s sporting tribute.

Glenn, who recounted his feelings in a blog post beginning with the words ‘Oh bugger’, admitted the shock exit had “rather peed on our Palace supplement bonfire.”

But reports, that Mackay will have his feet under the table at Selhurst Park in time for Palace’s game against West Ham on Saturday, saw Glenn tweet: “If it is Mackay, I’d say that’s the best appointment Palace could have made. Good choice.”