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Dai the Swansea Eagle
03-12-1999, 05:50 PM
I couldn't get tickets to the Arsenal relegation game in 93 so rather than mope round the house went to see the Swans v Leyton Orient. I brought a radio with me but could only pick up Radio Devon(???) which was broadcating some highly irrelevant non league game, and couldn't get the result until the classifieds were read out over the tannoy. I learned we had been relegated in a deserted Vetch Field. To compound matters I went to drown my sorrows that night (wearing colours) and ended up walking into the middle of a prearranged Swansea/Cardiff meet. Lovely boys.
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Well gentlemen. It's a long walk back to England and its that way.
Good Day.
Scoot
03-12-1999, 06:01 PM
Losing 5-0 and 4-0 at home to the bloody Wombles was no fun.
Neither was getting my face panned in at Fratton in the eighties.
But the worst was losing 3-1 at the South Coast Scum, the support was great, the performance on the pitch was dire.
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Sandy of Cornwall
03-12-1999, 06:08 PM
FA Cup Final replay.
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loosing in the last minute against leicters in the play off final a couple of years ago after that match it was the longest train journey i ever had
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1) Leicester play-off last minute
2) 0-1 Manc filth replay
3) 0-5 at home to Wimbledon
4) Being relegated on 49 points and/or finishing 4th from bottom
5) season 80/81 - nearly all of it! (How many times did we go one down in the first 3 minutes and lose 1-0? I lost count!)
All this assumes that our current predicament doesn't count!
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Chris K
03-12-1999, 07:15 PM
I think most of us have the same horror stories on these games:
1) Arsenal 0-3 when they put us down.
2) Leicester 1-2 at Wembley
3) Wimbledon 0-4 on Good Friday it was raining so hard the colours in my Union Jack completely ran and looked about as good as the team did that day.
4) Liverpool 1-6 Just promoted as champions high hopes of a decent season, but as usual Palace did the exact opposite of our hopes, and did it with style might I add.
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And Ron Noades Mother is a Whore
Egg Sample
03-12-1999, 08:01 PM
FACup Final. Mark bloody Hughes.
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Les Butler
03-12-1999, 09:41 PM
Originally posted by Egg Sample on 12-03-1999 04:01 PM
FACup Final. Mark bloody Hughes.
With you there egg ! + Being made to walk out with those nice friendly people from the cop and getting a good beating from those nice boys.......That's not a bad palace moment that's a bad Les Butler moment does it count....... so sue me.
Martin Searle
03-12-1999, 10:23 PM
The 0-5 against Wimbledon is certainly right
up there (although a great performance and wonderful support against Fulham the next week. However, personal factors often make the difference so.....
- deciding at the last minute to go to Northampton away in around 1976/77, a Byzantine public transport journey to get to Selhurst, not being allowed off the coach until 7.25 (i.e. no beer), the rain p*ssing down while the wind whipped across the cricket ground onto the open terrace, the team losing 3-0, no beer afterwards, and getting home at around 2 a.m.. Top night out.
- relegations at Norwich and Cardiff in successive seasons in the early 70's, being adjudged too young to go, and suffering via scanty radio / T.V. reports.
- obviously the week-long torture that was the Oldham come-back (the moment they won at Villa, I knew how inevitable the plot was - up to and including Wrighty scoring for the Arse.
- most of the Mullery era (did we always lose 0-1 at home?)
- now in terms of the threat of liquidation, but on the other hand I am as proud of the Club as I ever have been.
It takes the bad times to really appreciate the good.
Support the Trust! (if that isn't copyrighted).
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Small number
03-12-1999, 10:40 PM
Originally posted by john on 12-03-1999 02:11 PM
loosing in the last minute against leicters in the play off final a couple of years ago after that match it was the longest train journey i ever had
same here
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GreatGonzo
03-12-1999, 10:42 PM
Did anyone else relive that ball hitting his shin and giving Martyn no chance over and over for months?
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jupps
04-12-1999, 12:21 AM
the palace game against cambridge early 80,s thay had not scored away all season or for a very long time it took them about two mins against us i think it was also phil barbers first start fof us. Also away at carlisle also in early 80,s lost 4,0 or 4,1 long quite train journey home. Having to stop myself crying and telling my tearful 8 year old son it,s only a game after that sporny clarage goal.(i am geting the hang of this now)
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Steve Lower Holmesdale
04-12-1999, 03:31 AM
Who remembers going up to Hartlepool in the
cup and losing 2-1 the monkey was not the only thing that needed hanging that day.
If we go back in the future I will take the
train next time. poxy sh***y w**ky journey
by coach
PALACE TILL I DAI OOPS DIE
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lightweight
04-12-1999, 03:51 AM
Originally posted by GreatGonzo on 12-03-1999 06:42 PM
Did anyone else relive that ball hitting his shin and giving Martyn no chance over and over for months?
Really couldn't bring myself to watch that again - never watched the end of that season's video - until after the Sheff Utd game (which is one I've watched more than once!!!!)
Also at the Leicester game - having a young lad sitting near us with tears running down his face asking why no one else was crying... and the red n blue wig that was thrown in disgust and anger down in front of us :-((((
chief woolpacker
04-12-1999, 07:39 AM
HEY STEVE LOWER HOLMESDALE,REMEMBER THE NICE BONFIRE AT HARTLEPOOL? SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY JUST SHUT THE OLD DOORS YOU KNOW!!!!
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steveieb
05-12-1999, 04:26 AM
after watching that crap this afternoon at crewe im still undecided on my worst experience..i've never seen so many members of a team play so badly and not even want to play for our beloved club the only player who came out of the game with any recognition is Matt Svenson.
Still we will keep on supporting the lads,lets hope for an improvment on tuesday aginst ipswich
PALACE 4 EVER
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SmithEagle
05-12-1999, 12:51 PM
It has to be Leicester Playoffs. Stupid F**king Claridge scum. (sorry)
Anyway, i went To the Playoffs against Sheffield Utd the year later, none of my mates went again to that one http://cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif
AND Tranmere v Palace last season, We lost 3-0, crappy coach journey, the coach didnt even start up at Selhurst because the ignition system had broke!!! AND it was my first ever away game, What an experience!!
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banjo
05-12-1999, 07:20 PM
Dai,
I have a funny feeling that your worst Palace experience is yet to come.....
Bring on Shipps
Swansea 4th round of said FA Cup, Palace end, blood guts and sheep all over the shop
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Neil the Eagle
05-12-1999, 07:30 PM
My worst moment was hearing on the way home from Villa Park in 95 that a Palace fan had been killed before the game ... all the thoughts that go went through my mind, was it someone I knew, a friend or, worse still, family.
Although it turned out not anyone I knew - I felt no relief at all ... just more sadness for those who did know him.
Dai the Swansea Eagle
06-12-1999, 11:33 AM
Thankyou Banjo - you have proved a point.
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Well gentlemen. It's a long walk back to England and its that way.
Good Day.
hs7pb
06-12-1999, 02:07 PM
Huddersfield away last season where we lost 4-0 was the worst experience. The players were awful, they didn't try, they didn't clap the away fans at the end, terry venables was in charge, we didn't sing, it was freezing, we got stuffed and the whole journey cost a fortune and took 16 hours. I have never felt that bad after a match.
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Teaser
06-12-1999, 05:43 PM
Who's causing trouble now ?? http://cpfc.org/ubb/wink.gif
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The Trigger
06-12-1999, 07:37 PM
Worst moment?
When the Frog Mank went to court
and the judge remembered that hanging
had been abolished in '72
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Pistike
06-12-1999, 10:51 PM
Neil
I feel terrible that I didn't think of that when I first saw this thread.
You are of course right this was the worst Palace moment of the last 20 odd years.
When I heard what had happened as I left the ground I remembered that on the way in whilst walking past all the stands selling F*ck U Richard Shaw T-shirts etc we were accosted by a couple of the red scum who screamed at us that one of our lads was gonna get a good hiding this afternoon. I couldn't help thinking that maybe the blokes we had seen were the guilty party and that I had lost the chance to even the score.
I despise BHFC but the red scum cum a close 2nd.
9 4 95 Lest We Forget
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banjo
06-12-1999, 10:54 PM
Sorry Dai, had bee in ones bonnet yesterday
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johnny
07-12-1999, 12:31 AM
Steve lower holmesdale-i remember that game against Hartlepool!.I went up by train,got beaten up before and after the game,lost my temper and knocked a policemans helmet off (and got beaten up for a third time).By the time i got on the train to go back home (the same train the players were travelling on-they looked quite pleased with themselves for some reason,which pissed me off again)i had a head more swollen than John Merricks.Ofcourse,on a day like this,as expected,by the time i'd calmed down a bit,our train stopped at a station where Sheffield United,Arsenal,and Man city fans had decided to meet up for a battle to the death,which i was just about able to avoid getting involved in-my first bit of luck of the day.
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bunghole
07-12-1999, 07:33 AM
The day Noades signed the club over to Golddork. Anything that happened on the pitch before or after pales into insignificance.
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Coppell - A Palace Legend!
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Chocky
09-12-1999, 05:54 PM
Oh god there's been many "worst" moments over the years, but we're Palace fans and we take it and we'll take more. For me it's got to be the b*stard's equaliser in the cup final. The replay loss was dreadful and the day after I got smashed and balled my eyes out all day but before the game I somehow couldn't help feeling we'd blown it on the saturday, and when the players walked out in THAT kit I couldn't see Geoff picking the cup up wearing that sh*te!
A pretty bad memory for me was a trip to Cardiff for a FA Cup 2nd replay against Swansea in 1980. It was a monday I think and the snow was hammering down on our journey down the M4. When we got about 1 or 2 miles from the ground the coach got stuck in traffic and it was already past kick-off time. So we all got out and legged it in the snow to the ground, and little did we know a Swansea supporter was being stabbed to death close by. Got into the ground 20 minutes late to watch us lose 2-1. Afterwards we were kept on the coach for ages whilst the police took every travelling supporters' details. Got home about 3.30/4 - bloody nightmare.
Most frightening time - Stoke away when I thought I was going to die on a train from Stoke to Derby.
Most frustrating time - not being able to get a drink anywhere before a game at Bournemouth. Every pub shut. A hotel wouldn't let us into their bar even though we had no colours. Eventually found a back street offy and went and sat in that bloody park in the freezing cold with some cans. Then lost 2-0.
And losing 3-0 at Peterborough in the League Cup was poo poo as well. Train stopped because of electrical failure, ponce a lift of a commuter to the ground, get in 20 minutes late, we're still 3-0 up from the first leg. Watch Mullery's lame idiots in Man U kit lose 3-0 then go out on penalties. Get chased down the road by some a*seholes after then find out there's no train back for 7 years.
Most p*ssed off about missing a game - getting to Paddington station only to see the Special pulling out without me and I'm left standing there with a bag of Pils and a Vodka tupperware brew like a c*nt by the gate. Late because I wanted an extra white wee wee session with a girly that morning. What a prick. Another time I missed a game was Coventry away in 79/80. Night before had drunk 485 bottles of Pils after having silk screen lessons all afternoon at college. Screenwash get you high innit. Sat morning got on the coach - no toilets on board them days, and started throwing up into my sandwich bag around Brixton. By the time we reached Marble Arch the bag was full and sick was running down the coach floor. The driver shouted "WHO'S PUKED?" so I went to the front and told him I should get off. I was left staggering down Edgeware Road as the coach pulled away with the skins at the back laughing and giving me the w*nker signs. They had another few hours of smelling my chunder though!
Al From Bromley
15-12-1999, 02:53 PM
Most disappointed - Southampton semi-final at Stamford Bridge in 76. Cup final replay 90, Leicester play off.
Most frightened - Sunderland away in Cup 76.
Most pissed off to miss - Swindon game 6-2, Palace scored 5 in 12 minutes - A LEAGUE RECORD AT THE TIME - and it was the only home game I missed all season.
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Heavenly moments not including the obvious ones:
i) Winning 2-1 at QPR – our first goals against the Hoopy *******s after about 30 years of scoreless embarrassments
ii) Winning 2-1 at Old Trafford
iii) Winning 2-1 at Anfield
iv) Winning 2-1 at Highbury… can you see a pattern emerging here?
v) 'Scooter' Madden's penalty in the play-off second leg against Blackburn. He took it so well in what was the most pressurised moment I can ever remember. The whole ground was praying, it was like a monastery and then an explosion of noise: 'There's the look of joy on that man's face…'
vi) Surviving relegation in 1983 by beating, ironically, Burnley 2-0. Edwards and Walsh I think
vii) Chelsea 2 Palace 3 1976, bloody frightening at the game – the sound of boots coming towards us over the wooden bridge at Fulham Broadway – but so so sweet at school on Monday
viii) Steve Coppell saying 'I'm a Palace fan' and you know that, unlike countless others who've said similar things, it was not just an empty gesture said for convenience
ix) The balloon welcomes, especially those at Arsenal, QPR and Anfield. The support at those games was stunning…
x) Whenever I meet my friends in the pub before a match. That feeling of belonging and anticipation, even when you instinctively feel it's going to be crap. If we're going to lose this club then that will be the end of football for me. As a sport it died years ago. There is only Palace left…
Moments of hell, not including the obvious ones
i) All the Shrewsbury defeats, the way we always thought that this time it really would be as easy as it seemed, and it never was
ii) Clive Allen's fluke off the knee in the QPR FA Cup qtr final and his taunting reaction
iii) Gormless Glenn Roeder professionally fouling the clean through Prince Vince in the same game and not getting sent off
iv) Driving home in silence from Man City in 1993 after we'd drawn and Oldham had won. We knew there was no hope
v) David Burke getting sent off and Forest scoring the winner in the Sodim Cup semi 1989. There were thousands of Palace there. It meant so much to us at the time, we were within touching distance of Wembley, and now it means nothing at all
vi) The Man U FA Cup semi. Their fans were totally obnoxious, the most hateful people
vii) Hopkin going to Leeds. It said so much about the attitude of modern footballers. He wouldn't even give us a chance.
viii) The loss of Wrighty and Brighty (both immensely sad days) and their subsequent meeting in an FA Cup Final. We could have achieved so much if we'd kept them. I honestly believe we were on the verge of great things and we blew it. I've never felt more unhappy about players going.
ix) Wimbledon 0-5 and 0-4 and 0-3. Unspeakable
x) Going to Bristol City in the league cup 1988. The coach broke down and we were only half way there when the radio said that we'd gone three down in the first 15 minutes.
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Al From Bromley
22-12-1999, 08:11 PM
"Hopkin going to Leeds. It said so much about the attitude of modern footballers. He wouldn't even give us a chance."
Key moment of recent times for me. As I've said elsewhere, it was almost as if he was counting the money as soon as the ball hit the back of the net.
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Navigator
10-01-2000, 01:10 AM
Bit late this but it ranks a mention as a truly awful few days.
It`s near the end of the 73/74 season and we are away to Swindon.On arriving at Swindon station we are greeted by a huge police presence and before I`ve even got out of the station a police alsation tears the arse out of my trousers. In the town it`s time for a drink so we head for a pub we see Palace supporters disappearing into .As we are about to enter I`m showered with flying glass as a chair comes crashing out through the window and I find myself being chased down the road by the local Bill.We give them the slip and arrive at the ground 2hours before kick-off. As we walk around the outside of the ground we notice a small open gate and slipping inside find ourselves beneath one of the stands.We are immediately drawn to the smell of hot food and sniff out the pie kiosk which is unattended. We help ourselves to a couple of Peter`s steak and kidney pies and find a small room in which to sit down and consume our booty. W`ve been in there a couple of minutes when the door opens and in walks the Old Bill.It turns out we`re consuming our ill gotten gains in the police detention room. With barely concealed delight they informed us we wold be spending the match under lock and key. Just before kick-off an elderly copper came in to supervise us during the game. He was a good sort and sympathised with the agony we were going through at being able to hear but not see the game. Half-time came and he offered to release us on the promise that we would behave ourselves. We thought it was a stich-up when we were released into the home supports end but were amazed to find it full of Palace with the Swindon mob reluctantly having to occupy the away end .I was busting for a Jimmy and was making my way to the bog when a pair of stewards intercepted me accusing me of trying to get over to the Swindon supporters.The whistle had`nt even sounded for the restart when I found myself re-entering the detention room. The look of dissapointment on the kindly old coppers face is something that will stay with me for ever.
The final whistle came and I was eventually let out of an empty ground. Hurrying through the town to the station I was confronted by a huge Swindon lout wearing Doc Martins up to his armpits. He aimed a size 10 at me and promptly slipped up on his arse. Not beleiving my luck I was stood over him about to give him a parting dig when two coppers came round the corner and promptly laid into me ably abetted by the Swindon thug. By the time I reached the station I looked as if I`d been through a bark stripper and my train was disappearing into the distance. About 2hours later I boarded the train for London and then had to hide under the seat when the ticket inspector came round because my ticket was missing along with my back pocket.On reaching London and without a ticket I jumped the barrier, tripped and chipped my front tooth. Outside the station someone came up to me and asked me if I wanted some money for a cup of tea. I was in such a state I must have been mistaken for a tramp.
I eventually arrived home in Croydon to the realization that my door key was missing and probably in that police mutts stomach. Nothing for it ,my folks where still out so I shinned up the drainpipe in order to get in through my bedroom window. As I was hanging from the guttering it gave way and I ended up flattening the old mans prize roses.
Could things get worse than this? Yes!
The last game of the season was a few days later .Away to Cardiff and we had to win to avoid the drop. A draw would see us down and Cardiff safe. A nailbiting game with Palace in charge and me covered in spit from the Taffys sitting up above. The final whistle came and we had drawn and were down. As I slunk away head down I was ambushed in the exit tunnel by a howling drink- crazed army of jubilant Cardiff supporters."Where are you from ?"demanded the leader."Cardiff" I replied trying to sound like a Taff but sounding more like a waiter in the Taj Mahal.
I promptly disappeared beneath a sea of fists but managed to crawl out and left them kicking the ***** out of each other. By the time I reached the station the last train had already left for London so I came out the station and managed to hitch a lift into Bristol with the idea of catching a train from there. The only problem was I was dropped off in some sort of ghetto and before long I realised I was being followed. The footsteps caught up with me and I turned round to see a large West Indian bloke who smiled and struck up a friendly conversation only to ask me a few minutes later if I wanted to spend the night with him and waved a handful of fivers in front of my face. I snatched the money ,booted him in the gonads and legged it so fast if Ross McWhirter had been observing he`d have entered me in the next edition of the Guiness Book of Records. Made it to Bristol and caught the train back to London and then straight on to my job in Mitcham only to be summoned to the works manager`s office and sacked for taking so many days off (following the Palace).And so ended a bad season and my worst Palace experience.
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Al From Bromley
10-01-2000, 02:58 AM
Navigator - what's your nickname? Lucky?
Brilliant stories - cheered up an otherwise dull Sunday evening.
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arussell
10-01-2000, 03:58 AM
Worst moment(s) ....
ANYTIME we've been relegated from the premier, plus the despondant way I felt after the Leicester play-off final will stick in my mind for a long time ....even if I was drinking in the same pub as Gareth Davies and Rhys Wilmot later in the evening !
Also worst moments - Mark Goldberk taking over (eventually) and any time Ron Noades was in charge where he acted like a total prat, which was quite often .....
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arussell
10-01-2000, 04:02 AM
Nav ..
Is that REALLY a true story mate !?
If so - you have my sympathies for possibly the worst Palace experience ever !! http://cpfc.org/ubb/biggrin.gif
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SmithEagle
10-01-2000, 04:32 AM
That was a long, good story Nav, but is it true?
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Les Butler
10-01-2000, 05:14 AM
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A Blurry Bad dream
kev says.....It was the hormones in the chicken !
Al says....Ihave a gig for you down the pub tonight sweetheart !
Yeah Yeah..
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Les Butler
10-01-2000, 05:46 AM
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Last one Kev .........promise
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PalaceFan in Alabama
10-01-2000, 08:14 AM
Coming over from the States to attend the FA CUP against Moan Utd. Final was great, but the replay was sh*t; journey back to the States was the longest and the loneliness I have ever taken. http://cpfc.org/ubb/dead.gif
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interested in sydney.
10-01-2000, 10:44 AM
You should complain Palace fan in Alabama, I had to get a plane back to Oz and did not make the replay. As for Navigators trip to Cardiff what he forgot was it also pissed down all night during that game. Remember Stewart Jump?
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Navigator
11-01-2000, 02:45 AM
Unfortunately my dears it is true but gets more lurid with each retelling.
The only thing that could top that for me is to find out that Goldberg and Noades are my long lost triplet brothers.
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David
22-10-2002, 08:35 PM
This made for some interesting reading.
The Leicester play-off final will haunt me forever.
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