At Alemannia Aachen 24th July 1976

[Stan Churchillmann]

Fifty years ago today

Alemannia Aachen 3 Crystal Palace 2



Photo was taken by Neil Everett

From left to right :-

Carley, Geoff, Wiz, Stan the Man & Yateley.

Real names :-

Stephen Carleton, Geoff Haywood, Simon Wisdom, Stan Churchillmann and Ian Silverthorne.

 

[TheBigToePunt]

You can't just post that pic and the names. Story, please?!

 

[Stan Churchillmann]

The game was the first of a four game tour of Holland. Typical Palace, they have a Dutch tour and play a game in Germany ! !

The team were based in Arnhem and Aachen is just over the Dutch-German border and is where three counties meet. So you can have one foot in Holland, the other foot in Belgium and piss on Germany.

There were ten Palace fans at the game. The five in the photo and Neil Everett who was taking it. There was a man who was stationed somewhere in Germany with the army and his wife. The other two were Chris Wright and his mate who had moved to Rotterdam.



Above is the team sheet for the game.

Four days later there was a game in Holland at Almelo where Palace beat Heracles 2-0.

Then two days after that on 30th July it was a 6-0 win against Rijnsburgse Boys near Leiden. There were television cameras at this game and a small clip was shown in a documentary about Vince Hilaire. There is a link to it in another thread on this site. We were behind the goal that Palace are attacking in the video.

The last game was against Wageningen and Palace won 1-0 on 1st August 1976.

 

[chris123]

Must be the same Neil Everitt who was club photographer for ages

 

[Stan Churchillmann]

Yes

It was a couple of years before he became the official club photographer.

But it was the first time he took pictures at a Palace game officially.

 

[Stan Churchillmann]

Must be the same Neil Everitt who was club photographer for ages

And here is a link to the Vince Hilaire video :-

 

[chris123]

Must be the same Neil Everitt who was club photographer for ages

Particularly if he went to Primary School in Old Coulsdon and was a Keston Killer.