Heavy defeats!

[LP]

QPR 6 Palace 0, What a nightmare, it got me thinking about previous embaressments. I wasn't present at the Anfield 9-0 but having read various supporters' accounts of that night in the great book 'We All Follow The Palace' I feel I have a pretty good idea of how it must of felt. The really heavy defeat that springs to mind for me though was the opening day debacle also at the hands of the scousers in 1994. This day was typical of the club we love. We'd just won division one and boy were we cocky. We thought we were the dogs bollo*ks, well OK I did anyway! New signings Pitcher, Preece and (it makes me cringe to say these names!) Wilkins were going to be the final componant in a side that would soon have us chanting 'up the Premier League we go' to the patrons of Old Trafford and Highbury as we passed them on the way up the table. 90 Minutes later our season was in ruins, Ninja's Palace career was up the spout and Ian bloody Rush had scored with a header against us!

[tomario]

Other heavy defeats I have bee to include
Palace 0- Wimbledon 5 1985.

Forest 5 - Palace 1 Coppell offering his resignation after the game in 1992.

Liverpool 5 - Palace 0 Relegation season, what made it worse we got a 1-1 draw a few days later.

[Oisin]

The won that hurt the most for me wasn't that heavy. We lost 4-0 to Everton at home in a cup. Eric Young scored a comical own goal in front of the Whitehorse. I really thought we were going to beat them. It sticks in the mind because it's the only time I've left a home game early.

[Al From Bromley]

Some of my memories aren't necessarily the worst defeats - the Wednesday after we beat Sunderland at Roker Park when Palace were third division and Sunderland high fliers, we played Port vale at Selhurst. They l;ined up on the touchline to applaud Palace onto the pitch, the atmosphere was great, trouble was, we were ****e and drew 1-1. We'd just been to fortress Roker and got a result for Christ's sakes and we couldn't beat a yoghurt for a name football team!

[nugget]

God this is depressing.
5-0 away to Forest early eighties when we had that speedy slim sweeper,Gerry Francis.The best bit was this was the week Shilton got caught having an affair and all you could hear on match of the day was a few hundred Palace fans taunting him with "Does she take it in the mouth"

[Chocky]

At Stamford Bridge last year I left when the fourth went in, and I was walking past Fulham Broadway tube and I could still hear those sh*tbags scoring. Terrible terrible terrible night.

[Gazza1]

I was at that Port Vale game in the 1970's when we drew. I went to school in Tennison Road (Heavers Farm primary) and my teacher was a Port Vale fan. She didn't shut up about us only managing a draw for about a week.

I do not remember Palace being clapped on by Port Vale, but I do remember the opposition (can't remember who) lining up and clapping the ref off the pitch (he booked them as he knew they were taking the piss).

[johnny]

We got hammered 6-0 at the Dell by Southamptom,on the last day of the 70/71 season.We were just outside the relegation places and safe from the drop,but this result really pissed me off at the time,because the Saints were the old first divisions "whipping boys" during that season,so there wasn't much excuse.This was our heaviest defeat during our first ever spell in the top division.

[interested in sydney.]

Loosing 5 - 1 at Milllwall in the late 60s.Revenge the season after 2 - 0 and promotion.

[mikestock]

Isn't there enough deperessing stuff around the bbs without remembering all the depressing stuff from years ago

[Neil Ashton]

1985 was memorable

Palace 0, Grimsby 3

I'll never forget this game... aAn absolute shambles - even though Stevie was just beginning to turn it around - and made worse by the fact that one of our ex players, can't remeber his name, bagged two of them.
Typical...

[Neil the Eagle]

It was Ian Walsh ... the following week we signed Brighty and never looked back.

[ajp]

4-0 away at Huddersfield last season. This may not have been one of the really heavy Palace defeats of all time but Huddersfield or Huuuuuddersfield as their fans call them is a side we can never beat. We have been lucky not to lose to at Selhurst the last couple of times against them too.

[This message has been edited by ajp (edited 23 June 1999).]