Despite his undoubted ability, England international Zaha, 20, did not win any of the end of season player awards at Crystal Palace and Holloway said: "How can he not win a trophy? So we all clubbed together and bought him one.He continued: "Now I think we're feeling much better about ourselves. It's difficult when you come into a club and everything's rosy, I'm not used to it. Holloway will now have been involved in three of the last four Championship play-off finals, having won in 2010 and lost last year, both with Blackpool.Holloway left Blackpool to take the Palace job in November with the London club fourth in the table.Every one of them burst their heart tonight. They were brave. A couple of weeks ago they didn't feel like that because things weren't going for us. We'd lost our 30-goal talisman [Glenn Murray], everyone wrote us off but you can't do that. If Brighton scored first I don't think I'd be here now [doing the winning interview].The Eagles looked candidates for automatic promotion until a late-season collapse and Zaha, who has only scored once since his move to Manchester United was confirmed in January, had been "getting some stick recently", according to Holloway, who added he was "delighted" the winger had bagged a brace.People had said that I'd lost the dressing room but I know where it is, down the corridor on the left," he said. "What a load of rubbish. How many others teams have had wobbles? It's a joke. Palace endured a run of nine games without a win, which almost cost them a play-off place, and Holloway said the club had come through its "toughest test".
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