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Your first Palace game live?

Apollofuzz said:
First game Palace 2 - Liverpool 3 FA cup 2nd leg went in a Liverpool fan came out a Palace fan. Also went to the game in my dads mates Capri.
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I didn’t go, but I remember the game at Anfield and was so proud we got a draw up there, if Liverpool failed to win at home back then in any competition it was a massive shock let alone against a 3rd division side
 
Think my first game was against Bristol city sitting on the wall in the Whitehorse.
But the one I remember as first that I can recall is against Nottingham forest (European champions), when we won 1-0.Ian Walsh putting it through Peter Shiltons legs in front of the Whitehorse.
 
cryrst said:
79’ Burnley 2-0
Promoted as champs and the team of the 80s was born… then went down 😳
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Blimey mate, that was a hell of a first game👏🏻😎
 
Penge Eagle said:
Blackburn Rovers (h), April 30, 1988. Sat in the Main Stand, it was a surreal experience for a young lad.
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This was my second ever game!! I think it may have been Jim Cannon’s last ever appearance at Selhurst Park. We won 2-0.

My first ever game was a 1-1 draw against Sheffield United in 1986. I sat in the Arthur Wait and my highlight was a hot chocolate!
I finally got a programme for the game in 2012 when my fiancé found one for me on eBay.
 
Timtwowheels said:
1969 Div 2 vs Middlesborough - a draw which I think it was enough to get us promoted to Div 1 for the first time. I was around 8yrs old and down the front of the Holmesdale and soon banging in the advertising hoardings along with all the other kids. Fond memories of a cinder path behind the goal covered in Mrs Minchilla's peanut shells. 'Peanuts for Sixpence'.
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Not quite. It was the home match against Fulham which, after some drama, Palace won 3-2, and confirmed promotion. Incidentally I recall there was a crowd of around 40,000 for the Boro game which took place on Good Friday. And yes it was a draw - 0-0.
 
First game was season 1969/70. Home game against london side (West Ham/ Chelsea/arsenal?). Lost 4-1 or 5-1 like we did a few times at home derbies that year. I just loved it. Felt like “my place”. And then saw 4/5 other games w dad and bruv topped off by home 1-0 victory vs Man City to make sure we stayed up on last day of season. Just returned as season ticket holder last season for first year since 1979/80. Still love the place. And most of the away matches for past 1.5 seasons which involve travel from Manchester where I live now
 
ASCPFC said:
QPR away, 6th round of the Cup. 1982 - a famous game for all the wrong reasons, as usual for us. A riot after - almost customary then.
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I was there, I spent all that season travelling to all the away games where there was only 50 to 100 of us, so that game was unbelievable how we packed so many into loftus road, quite an atmosphere, I’ve hated Clive Allen ever since
 
5th April 1969 Palace 3 Portsmouth 1

I stood behind the goal in the Whitehorse . I got there about 2 hours before KO to make sure I got a spot right at the front which I continued to do for a few seasons after . I was 10 years old
 
Nc412760 said:
16/12/1972 Palace 5 Man United 0 - back of the Main Stand aged 7 with my Dad. Palace for life!
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Excellent 😎 makes my first games against Rotherham, Mansfield and Hereford seem a bit lame 🤣
 
Oh dear. I regret to say that I don't remember but it was in the early seventies.

I wasn't a Palace fan but worked for Bank of America in the Whitgift Centre when they set up an international computer division staffed with Dutch, Germans and Americans who asked me to take them to a football match so I took them to a Palace game and the die was cast
 
Can't remember my first one but my Grandad was a steward and started taking me to occasional home games in the 78 season. I distinctly remember going to the famous Burnley game in 79, Selhurst was packed.
 
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I remembered the scoreline, Palace 5 Peterborough 2, going with my late lovely Dad, weedy Holmesdale end. Then looked up the date, 14th October 1961 😳, age 7.
....My father said to me, listen here my daughter you're CPFC....FOR LIFE, Claret and Blue then ❤️💙
 
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