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Neil Ashton
22-06-1999, 01:47 PM
Vince Hilaire at Selhurst brought more than a wry smile to my face... even if he was my hero from the mid to late 70s.
It was made even better at the final whistle to see the thousands of Pompey fans who had taken over the seats in the Arthur Waite stand crying their eyes out thinking they had blown promotion to the old First Division for the umpteenth season in a row
Mad Raschic Ken
22-06-1999, 01:54 PM
Eric Cantona has to be the best, especially considering what followed. Also Roy Keane in the semi-final, although that was ruined a bit with Darren Patterson going with him.
Maidstoned Eagle
22-06-1999, 06:09 PM
Dougie Freedman, against Port Vale, as it suspended the lazy git for the Play-off final, and increased our chances of winning.
Then he goes and scores two against Wolves making me wish he hadn't.
Neil the Eagle
23-06-1999, 09:47 PM
Horton playing for Hull at home around Xmas 1986 - The whole ground (except both Hull fans) laughed him down the tunnel, cos he kept protesting - we won 5-1 as well - oh happy day.
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Palace versus Sheffield United up at Bramell Lane in March 1993. Armstrong had just been sent off and Coleman headed our winner that day in Yorkshire.
Essexeagle
10-07-1999, 02:10 AM
Ricky Newman vs Ipswich at Portman Road in I think 1995?
He went with about 10 minutes to go while we were 1-0 up, Ipswich piled forward and we broke away and scored...
prompting a ten minutes long chant of 10 men, we only need ten men - one of the best away atmospheres of all time
Gazza1
14-07-1999, 05:07 PM
Neil - I remember the Horton one well. He was hated by Palace as he was skipper of the Brighton when the mutual hatred developed. He moaned at the ref the whole game and the ref just decided enough was enough. He just stopped the game called him over and showed him the red car.
This was also the game we were singing "London 5 Hull 1" in response to Housemartin's album "Hull 5 London 1". (You had to be there - Housemartin's were big Hull fans and their album was top of the charts).
DavidB
13-03-2004, 01:41 PM
Gordon Hill for Derby v Palace at Selhurst, 79-80.
Reasons for being gleeful;
1) It happened (IIRC) within ten minutes of the start.
2) It was only a disputed throw-in.
3) Hill (legendarily two bricks short of a full load) couldn't contain himself and... er... backchatted the ref in highly personal terms.
4) It was quiet at the time, so the left half of the Holmesdale and the right half of the Old Stand could all hear exactly what he said.
5) Instant - and I mean instant - production of the red card.
6) His manager - would it have been Arthur Cox? - didn't even bother to defend him afterwards (perhaps he'd heard what he'd said as well).
Anyone else remember this one?
chelmsfordeagle
13-03-2004, 01:56 PM
not really to do with this thread but does anyone else remember Trevor Francis getting sent of against us playing for Sheff Wed? I think it was for two yelows, the second being for kicking the ball away.
Originally posted by Gazza1
This was also the game we were singing "London 5 Hull 1" in response to Housemartin's album "Hull 5 London 1". (You had to be there - Housemartin's were big Hull fans and their album was top of the charts).
Pretty sure the album was Hull 4 London 0. Sorry to be such a pedantic W****r. Back on topic, David Speedie (horrid little git) sent off playing for Coventry at Palace 1/12/90.
oz_da II
13-03-2004, 06:30 PM
Originally posted by Gazza1
This was also the game we were singing "London 5 Hull 1" in response to Housemartin's album "Hull 5 London 1". (You had to be there - Housemartin's were big Hull fans and their album was top of the charts).
Can I be pedantic as well and say Paul Heaton is a Blades fan and Fatboy Quintan "supports" Brighton (I suppose that might have happened later), so I guess it was the other two blokes who were big Hull fans?
El Aguila
13-03-2004, 06:37 PM
Originally posted by Gazza1
Neil - I remember the Horton one well. He was hated by Palace as he was skipper of the Brighton when the mutual hatred developed. He moaned at the ref the whole game and the ref just decided enough was enough. He just stopped the game called him over and showed him the red car.
This was also the game we were singing "London 5 Hull 1" in response to Housemartin's album "Hull 5 London 1". (You had to be there - Housemartin's were big Hull fans and their album was top of the charts).
That was a great game. Around then I think we started to turn the corner.
Originally posted by oz_da II
Can I be pedantic as well and say Paul Heaton is a Blades fan and Fatboy Quintan "supports" Brighton (I suppose that might have happened later), so I guess it was the other two blokes who were big Hull fans?
No,no no.I am far more pedantic. One of the Housemartins is a Palace fan and was featured in a Sunday Times article about two years ago.....so.....the other one must have been the Hull fan.
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Strathclyde Eagle
13-03-2004, 07:44 PM
Paul Brooker. Happened right in line of where I was sitting in the Holmesdale too.
http://gallery.cpfc.org/albums/album44/sending_off.jpg
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charltonhater
14-03-2004, 10:35 AM
The twerp who was sent off for Sheffield United against us earlier this season, after making his 8732nd foul of the game.
The Tommy Black and Brescia twit from the friendly earlier this season was also enjoyable to watch, as it happened bang in front of me.
bellboy
14-03-2004, 10:49 AM
Andy Gray and Dennis Wise in the Palace-Chelsea game early 90-91 season. 10 v 10 made it a much better game.
Super Mabbutt
14-03-2004, 10:00 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Neil the Eagle
[B]Horton playing for Hull at home around Xmas 1986 - The whole ground (except both Hull fans) laughed him down the tunnel, cos he kept protesting - we won 5-1 as well - oh happy day.
Yep, remember that one well - an absolute corker. Remember Tony Finnigan scoring 2 that day. I seem to remember one was a mazy run that beat half the Hull team.
Originally posted by Gazza1
Neil - I remember the Horton one well. He was hated by Palace as he was skipper of the Brighton when the mutual hatred developed. He moaned at the ref the whole game and the ref just decided enough was enough. He just stopped the game called him over and showed him the red car.
This was also the game we were singing "London 5 Hull 1" in response to Housemartin's album "Hull 5 London 1". (You had to be there - Housemartin's were big Hull fans and their album was top of the charts).
Err this has been discussed before. The album was London 0, Hull 4 and was nothing to do with football (The Housemartins claimed they were the fourth best band in Hull,I have no idea who the others were).
Officially, they didn't like football (which with one now sponsoring the Seaweed we know to be true). This was odd, as some of their songs contained veiled reference to the game.
By the way, the sending off was fantastic.
Originally posted by bellboy
Andy Gray and Dennis Wise in the Palace-Chelsea game early 90-91 season. 10 v 10 made it a much better game.
And the police made Wise go home for his own protection!
Ruskin Old Boy
15-03-2004, 08:21 AM
Originally posted by DavidB
Gordon Hill for Derby v Palace at Selhurst, 79-80.
Reasons for being gleeful
Also:
7 He'd played for Millwall and ManUre before Derby.
:D
Hatch
15-03-2004, 12:02 PM
Originally posted by Super Mabbutt
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Neil the Eagle
[B]Horton playing for Hull at home around Xmas 1986 - The whole ground (except both Hull fans) laughed him down the tunnel, cos he kept protesting - we won 5-1 as well - oh happy day.
Yep, remember that one well - an absolute corker. Remember Tony Finnigan scoring 2 that day. I seem to remember one was a mazy run that beat half the Hull team.
Not quite...it was a breakaway from a Hull corner, Finnegan picked up the ball from a clearance on the halfway line and basically just ran at the goal. He had to evade one desperate challenge then (I think) he went round the 'keeper to tap home in front of the Sainsbury's end. Still a great goal.
Keown getting sent off for Everton towards the end of the 90/91 season was quite enjoyable. Just after our ZDS Cup triumph, he tried to 'settle a score' with the Ninja.
ElwissAtMemphis
15-03-2004, 05:14 PM
▪ Vince Hilaire pushing the referee over in the first home match of 80/81 against Spurs. There seemed to be a moment of shocked hush as it dawned on people what he'd actually done. (This was in the days when sendings off, particularly straight reds, were pretty rare and physical assaults on the ref were virtually unheard of).
▪ Ian Wright getting 2 yellows in the first half of a match against Bournemouth in 87/88. That one particularly sticks in my memory as I've heard him in interviews many years later proclaiming what an essentially clean and honest player he is by boasting that he's never been sent off in his professional career ... the bloody liar.
▪ There must be loads of others, but if we're including opposition players there's one which altered the course of the game more than any other that I've ever seen (Palace or otherwise). Away to Manchester City 87/88 and Palace weren't doing too well while the press were raving about the crop of young players that City were playing (Stewart, Hinchcliffe, White, Lake, Brightwell ...) They'd put 10 (ten!) past Huddersfield a few weeks earlier, had thrashed a few others and were either top of there abouts at the time.
Needless to say, the absolutely destroyed Palace but through unbelievable luck, we were only 0-1 down at half time. The second half continues pretty the same with Palace rarely getting out of our half and it looked like just a matter of time before City got several more to finish us off. Then, with about 20 minutes to go Palace hoof the ball aimlessly upfield to relieve more pressure (the usual tactic in those days) and Mark Bright chases it all the way as it rolls to the City keeper, Nixon, who collects it on the edge of his area. They seem to square up chest-to-chest and all of a sudden Bright falls to the floor clutching his face. From where I was standing, I hadn't seen Nixon touch him and there was no apparent reason why he would have but the referee goes and consults the linesman to the home fan's outrage and then he calls Nixon over ...
And then out of nowhere, from Palace getting hammered by a team that was miles better than us, the referee suddenly sends City's keeper off ... they've got no keeper on the bench so another player (Hinchcliffe I think) has to go in goal ... AND it's a penalty to Palace ! Redfearn scores the penalty, Bright (now public enemy number one in Moss Side and getting booed every time he touches the ball) scores another 2 past the hapless stand-in keeper and Palace win 3-1.
Me and the 300 or so other Palace fans can't believe what we're seeing and jump about on the terrace in delight. The Kippax can't believe what they've seen either and having been thwarted in their attempts to lynch the referee turn their attentions to us. At about 5:20 the police deem it safe enough to let us out and having made my own way there from Liverpool, I didn't have the benefit of a police escort and had a particularly nerve-wracking journey home. A truely memorable game though.
202b
EAM, I remember that game well, and hearing the riots going on outside as we waited, not too anxious to be let out.
We were staying in Manchester that night so as we made our way to where we were staying, I, at least two others who use this board and someone who now regularly polices Palace, home and away, were chased half way round Moss Side.
Happy Days!!!
cpfc greenhithe
15-03-2004, 10:00 PM
Remember this game well, I think city fans stabbed one of their own stewards near the away end gates.
A Wooden Fish On Wheels
15-03-2004, 10:09 PM
Originally posted by ElwissAtMemphis
Vince Hilaire pushing the referee over in the first home match of 80/81 against Spurs. There seemed to be a moment of shocked hush as it dawned on people what he'd actually done. (This was in the days when sendings off, particularly straight reds, were pretty rare and physical assaults on the ref were virtually unheard of). Wow I have such vague memories of that... it was sort of by the half way line in front of the Arthur wasn't it? The way I remember it there was some goins on and the ref tapped Vince on the shoulder and he turned round and pushed him over in one motion not realising it was the ref? But time plays tricks... imagine if that happened now? Headlines, massive bans, the whole shooting match.
Ruskin Old Boy
16-03-2004, 07:30 AM
Originally posted by A Wooden Fish On Wheels
Wow I have such vague memories of that... it was sort of by the half way line in front of the Arthur wasn't it? The way I remember it there was some goins on and the ref tapped Vince on the shoulder and he turned round and pushed him over in one motion not realising it was the ref? But time plays tricks...
I thought it was in the Holmesdale half of the pitch just outside the D ... and VH just pushed him over in a fit of anger (for a fould not given as we were attacking the Holmesdale end at the time. But as you say time does play tricks
PENGE P
16-03-2004, 07:34 AM
Henry Houghton after breaking Gerry Ryans Leg
Smurph
16-03-2004, 07:59 AM
Originally posted by Ruskin Old Boy
I thought it was in the Holmesdale half of the pitch just outside the D ... and VH just pushed him over in a fit of anger (for a fould not given as we were attacking the Holmesdale end at the time. But as you say time does play tricks
That's how I remember it, it the Holmesdale half of the pitch, on the edge of the centre circle. Vince had been continually fouled throughout the game and had got very little protection. After yet another trip from behind he just got up, turned around and pushed the first person he saw which happened to be the referee...
Grim Reaper
16-03-2004, 08:15 AM
Originally posted by Gazza1
This was also the game we were singing "London 5 Hull 1" in response to Housemartin's album "Hull 5 London 1". (You had to be there - Housemartin's were big Hull fans and their album was top of the charts).
Sorry to be pedantic (well, actually I'm not sorry I love being pedantic ;) ) the album was London 0 Hull 4. The strange things is that although the lead singer Paul Heaton was from Hull, he's a massive Sheffield United fan and is well in with the United hoolie firm the Blades Business Crew, as you'll see by the fact that he writes the foreword in teh book of the same name. Never fully worked out why he was so happy to go with the whole Hull/Housemartins thing.
Panther
16-03-2004, 08:31 AM
Originally posted by Ruskin Old Boy
I thought it was in the Holmesdale half of the pitch just outside the D ... and VH just pushed him over in a fit of anger (for a fould not given as we were attacking the Holmesdale end at the time. But as you say time does play tricks
That's pretty much how I remember it as well. It was almost worth the sending off just to see the ref fall over.
ElwissAtMemphis
16-03-2004, 10:48 AM
Originally posted by PENGE P
Henry Houghton after breaking Gerry Ryans Leg
I don't think he was sent off for that, was he ?
Zohar Returns
16-03-2004, 01:04 PM
Originally posted by Essexeagle
Ricky Newman vs Ipswich at Portman Road in I think 1995?
He went with about 10 minutes to go while we were 1-0 up, Ipswich piled forward and we broke away and scored...
prompting a ten minutes long chant of 10 men, we only need ten men - one of the best away atmospheres of all time
Was'nt it the great man Dowie that added the second (after a dodgy let off for an off side)?
markholmes1991
16-03-2004, 01:15 PM
Adam Tanner was the man sent off for Ipswich (I believe) along with Newman.
Didn't we win 2-0?? Dowie closed down Forrest from a back pass, from the far side of the box for the first, & a penalty won by Salako which Deano converted added the second??
I may be wrong :moo:
Who Cares?
16-03-2004, 01:47 PM
One sending off I remember was Ruddock in a home game against Sheffield Utd. It stands out because it was the only time I was pleased to see a Palace player sent off.
Apart from being given the complete run around by Marcus Bent, Ruddock had been behaving like a pillock all afternoon. I am sure Graham Poll was the ref and he had tried hard not to send Ruddock off but in the end was left with no choice.
Ruddock was a disgrace that day but amazingly received an ovation from a lot of the crowd as he left the pitch.
ElwissAtMemphis
16-03-2004, 03:34 PM
Couple of other memorable ones;
Billy Gilbert getting a straight red for nutting a Fulham player at Craven Cottage in 78/79 and ...
Nigel Martyn puuting a Wimbledon forward about 3 rows back into the Old Stand, resulting in John Salako (surely the shortest ever player to wear a Palace goalkeepers jersey) playing the rest of the game and ensuring the 3 points with a pretty decent save near the end.
Also, I didn't see it happen but 3 Palace players got their marching orders when we lost 4-1 at Port Vale in 76/77. (Holder, Harkouk and Graham judging from the line-ups around that time, but I'm not sure). I remember George Graham getting sent off the following season, serving his suspension and then getting sent off in his first match back which must give him the highest dismissals per match played record in Palace's history.
51c
Typical Palace
16-03-2004, 05:32 PM
Got to agree with Who Cares? Ruddock was a red card waiting to happen that day. You've got to wonder why he was hailed from the pitch. The lardy brain has one of the worst attitudes I've seen in a Palace player. God knows what Coppell was thinking when he signed him. Stevie did have someone else in mind (@£1M) but Jordan wanted Razor Pillock. Having him and Jamie Pollock in the same side ensured it wasn't dull (and that we rarely won).
A Wooden Fish On Wheels
16-03-2004, 09:15 PM
Originally posted by Smurph
That's how I remember it, it the Holmesdale half of the pitch, on the edge of the centre circle. Vince had been continually fouled throughout the game and had got very little protection. After yet another trip from behind he just got up, turned around and pushed the first person he saw which happened to be the referee... At least I was half right hehe.
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