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Brandt's book that you have reviewed was the inspiration, if that's the right word, for my book on the same subject. I'm the same age as the players who won the Youth Cup twice and then made up most of the team who won the 2nd Division in 1978/79 and started life so well in the First Division...

Thanks you very much @elgin eeagle and @Bubbs

Hi there Do you know how I can contact Nick? I'd like to send him details of my book that I mentioned in another thead, especially as I referenced his 'Season reviews' in the book.

Hi everyone This is a shameless advertisement, as 'The True Story of Crystal Palace's Team of the Eighties' is a book that I've written and it has just been published on Amazon. But I hope that some people here will be interested. Here's the link...

Does anyone know the latest on the injuries to Wharton and Richards?

You beat me to it. Maybe Johnny Byrne should come into contention, but he was before my time.

Yeah, I've just double checked, and that was the case. He was on agood little run actually, scoring the second goal in the 2-0 win against Man City and the only goal of the game in the 1-0 win against Arsenal before the one that we've been discussing at Old Trafford. Seven goals in the first...

November 1979. That was the last goal he ever scored for the club.

Was that the conversation at the end of the game?

No, currently 6th in the National League. One place behind Carlisle United, and I'm old enough to remember them briefly topping the old First Division.

Very briefly. One of three England captains who had played for the club. The others being Keegan and Clemence, in case anyone was wondering.

Others may already know this, but I only came across it this morning. Apparently Bert Head offered Botham apprentice terms at Palace in the early 1970s, but he turned it down as he thought he was more likely to be successful in cricket. Not such a bad call I suppose.

I couldn't evaluate players across seveal decades, so I thought I'd have a go at a team combined from the 1970s and 1980s' players. That gave me two big problems. First, which one out of Evans and Gilbert plays alongside Cannon in central defence? Secondly, as they both did their best work...

According to Venables' autobiography, Bloye promised him at £100,000 bonus if he took Palace into the First Division, but never paid up. I don't know whether that's linked to the proceeds from the sale of the Whitehorse Lane end. But I suspect that Venables' autobiography is as telling for...

I suppose he sold his shares about six months after the sale of the Whitehorse Lane end of the ground, so that particular bonus came later, and in the summer of 1980 he didn't know how much he would be able to sell them for in January 1981. On a separate point, I remember reading about what you...