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For the older supporters…

In the early 70's there was an idea called Bring a Pal to Palace and Ronnie Corbett who was a fan brought Ronnie Barker. When he was announced as sitting in the old stand and gave a wave he got the biggest cheer of the afternoon.
 
markltcpfc said:
Deep joy and delight to read through this thread.

I remember so much of what has been posted and would add in no particular order....

Finest goal i've ever seen anywhere at any time: Jim Cannon v Ipswich, 1979.
The joy that was Rachid Harkouk.
The trickery of Vince.
Kenny on the lefty.
Wilf one side and Yannick the other.

Bring on Europe.
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Ah Ra(s)ch the Smash. I still rate his goal against Alan Mullery’s Brighton as the best I have witnessed in my 62 years as a supporter.

It was in the FA cup at the Goldstone Ground. Harkouk had come on as a sub and been booked immediately for a an “over the top” tackle! Disgusted with events he received the ball at the left hand side of the Palace penalty area and proceeded diagonally across the pitch to the right hand corner flag with only one “one-two” in the move. There the Brighton defenders tried to pen him in but he broke through and into the penalty area where he rifled the ball into the net for the equaliser.

It was November 1976 and this match started the train of events that cemented a rivalry between the two teams which has endured ever since. The replay was a 1-1 draw so the now infamous play-off at Stamford Bridge is etched in the annals of history.
 
Norbury Old Git said:
Ah Ra(s)ch the Smash. I still rate his goal against Alan Mullery’s Brighton as the best I have witnessed in my 62 years as a supporter.

It was in the FA cup at the Goldstone Ground. Harkouk had come on as a sub and been booked immediately for a an “over the top” tackle! Disgusted with events he received the ball at the left hand side of the Palace penalty area and proceeded diagonally across the pitch to the right hand corner flag with only one “one-two” in the move. There the Brighton defenders tried to pen him in but he broke through and into the penalty area where he rifled the ball into the net for the equaliser.

It was November 1976 and this match started the train of events that cemented a rivalry between the two teams which has endured ever since. The replay was a 1-1 draw so the now infamous play-off at Stamford Bridge is etched in the annals of history.
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Whatever the X Factor is for footballers he certainly had it.
From Wiki.
In August 2011, he was jailed for 28 months for conspiring to supply illegal drugs.
 
I remember Rash playing for Algeria in the 1982 World Cup, I was really proud an ex palace hero was out there. They were minnows and they put up a great show, but they were denied qualification from the group stage by the Germans beating the Austrians 1-0, and in one of the most blatant displays in football history of teams backing off each other and settling for that result as it suited both teams.
It was probably the start of why final group stage games are played at the same time now

On a side note, a bit tongue in cheek, it’s probably where tippy tappy football with no intensity was created, if youngsters could watch that game now they probably wouldn’t notice much difference from the modern game 🤣
 
I noticed yesterday on the website an ‘on this day’ article, when Terry Venables took over as boss. I remember it really well because I was at that inbetween stage of finishing primary school and starting secondary school in 1976. I remember, although being sad about big mal, being really excited because Venables was one of the characters of the game and he always featured on little comedy slots on the big match and on the ball.
Little did I know then that I was right to be excited with what was to come 😎
 
BromleyMonkey said:
I noticed yesterday on the website an ‘on this day’ article, when Terry Venables took over as boss. I remember it really well because I was at that inbetween stage of finishing primary school and starting secondary school in 1976. I remember, although being sad about big mal, being really excited because Venables was one of the characters of the game and he always featured on little comedy slots on the big match and on the ball.
Little did I know then that I was right to be excited with what was to come 😎
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Palace became big for a while with El Tel and it was that time I became a supporter. Glory seeker obviously. I seem to remember the kids at school even knew our team well. Which clearly went away again later. But now it's back - I guess.
 
ASCPFC said:
Palace became big for a while with El Tel and it was that time I became a supporter. Glory seeker obviously. I seem to remember the kids at school even knew our team well. Which clearly went away again later. But now it's back - I guess.
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Even though selhurst was 5 miles from where I grew up the kids at school laughed at me and my mate for supporting palace. I remember a couple of lads wetting themselves with excitement because they were going to an Arsenal game when I’d been climbing the walls all week with excitement because I was going to Palace v Hereford🤣
 
BromleyMonkey said:
Even though selhurst was 5 miles from where I grew up the kids at school laughed at me and my mate for supporting palace. I remember a couple of lads wetting themselves with excitement because they were going to an Arsenal game when I’d been climbing the walls all week with excitement because I was going to Palace v Hereford🤣
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I'm from Bromley too mate. I understand.
 
As you can see from my title that I have been a Palace supporter for quite some time. My dad use to take me along to matches and we used to stand on the hills at the Whitehorse Road end. To be honest I don't remember much about the matches in the 50s except being shown what a great player Johhny Byrne was. Someone mentioned in this thread about the 3-0 defeat in the FA cup by Leeds in 1965. I took my first ever girlfriend to queue up for tickets on the Sunday before the match (remantic eh?). The match was posponed because of fog and it took place the following midweek . My dad always said we would have won if we had played on the scheduled Saturday because we would have been "up for it". I don't know about that!
Anyway, starting my Palace "career" in 1953 at least I dodged the ignomony of us finishing up rock bottom of the old 3rd division South in the 1950/1 season resulting in our having to apply for re-election into the Football League.
 
Living in Streatham I started watching football at Tooting and Mitcham in 1959. By 1963 I was deemed "old enough to go to Selhurst". I used to watch from the grassy bank opposite the main stand, often on the steps of the Croydon Hospitals Radio hut (only after banging the boards to Glad all Over as the team came out). My first really memorable highlight was the promotion to the top flight at the 3-2 against Fulham and seeing the great John Jackson throw everything but his underpants into the crowd below the Arthur. This was of course followed by the 2-2 opening game against Man Utd (took my dad to this one). Four seasons of big home defeats to Arsenal/Chelsea/Spurs, relived on The Big Match on Sunday afternoon.

As a Palace fan you get used to the occasional highlight making up for all those lowlights. I took my then girlfriend (now my wife of 52 years) to see the wonderful 5-0 thrashing of Man Utd. After marriage in 1973 I moved out of London never to return. Four years in Nelson/Burnley watching Palace at Chester and Halifax. We were relegated as I moved (replaced by Burnley, my new local team) and then relegated again. I moved to the Midlands in 1977 and the first game I saw was the youth cup semi-final at West Brom in 1977, my first sight of what was to become "the team of the 80s".

Highlights since then include the Burnley promotion game of 1979, the cup final of 1990 (the first major game I took my two sons), the ZDS final of 1991 (the last game my dad saw), the losing play off final of 1996 (Claridge's shinner), the winning play off final of 1997 (Hopkin Curls One), Stockport 2001 (Dougie!!!), Cardiff Play off Final 2004 (Shipperley), Wembley Play off Final 2013 (Super Kev), Cup Final 2016 (Pardew's Dance). Almost all of these I was with my two sons, and in 2016 my first grandson.

The cup final this year was a family affair, I was sat with my granddaughter, one son sat with his son, another son sat with his son, spread out round the ground (and my wife in the pub outside the ground). Winning with seven minutes to go in 1990, winning with 12 minutes to go in 2016, huge anxiety in 2025 when we scored so early, how could we hang on.

When the final whistle blew I joined every other Palace fan and burst into tears of joy. After 62 years I had finally seen Palace win a major trophy, something I never thought I would do in my lifetime. I started supporting Palace because they were my local team. My sons have never lived anywhere near London (one lives 300 miles away, the other lives 3000 miles away) but they support Palace because I do. My grandchildren support Palace because their dads do. You don't choose to support Palace, you inherit it. Palace is a family club, and Wembley 2025 is a time and place that will forever be part of my family history, a memory that is shared across the generations.
 
Norbury Old Git said:
Ah Ra(s)ch the Smash. I still rate his goal against Alan Mullery’s Brighton as the best I have witnessed in my 62 years as a supporter.

It was in the FA cup at the Goldstone Ground. Harkouk had come on as a sub and been booked immediately for a an “over the top” tackle! Disgusted with events he received the ball at the left hand side of the Palace penalty area and proceeded diagonally across the pitch to the right hand corner flag with only one “one-two” in the move. There the Brighton defenders tried to pen him in but he broke through and into the penalty area where he rifled the ball into the net for the equaliser.

It was November 1976 and this match started the train of events that cemented a rivalry between the two teams which has endured ever since. The replay was a 1-1 draw so the now infamous play-off at Stamford Bridge is etched in the annals of history.
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Nice description Norbury, I do often wonder though about the Brighton rivalry being linked to those cup games. I think it was pretty well established already. If you look in the history books we played games against them when it was customary to play both Christmas Day and Boxing Day back in 40-50s are even earlier in old Southern League days plus if you check the attendances in the 70s before those cup games they are the largest gates for both teams by some distance... Im sure a few on here will also recall widespread trouble at matches before the cup clashes in 77. For me those matches were so heated because there already was a rivalry. It matters little but just my take on things... "Have you ever seen Brighton win a cup..."
 
Not exactly the thread but anyway...Sky are showing something called Ballers - an indoor football league with rules which escape me but Kieron Cadogan is playing for one team.
 
I was born and brought up in Albion Villas Road in Sydenham. My grandparents lived next door and it was my grandfather who was a Derry/Londonderry man who got me into Palace.
We could hear the old car racing from Crystal Palace Park from his the back of our houses at the time and he told me where it was coming from. He then gave me the choice of teams to support which were Millwall or Crystal Palace, he the handed me a Claret and Blue bobble hat and told me my choice!.
 
When I first started going to Palace from Purley we used to get the 234 to the station and then. Steam train to E Croydon and then walk to Selhurst. This must have been 1962.!
 
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