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Inspired by the worst ever player thread I got to thinking about the worst ever single performance.
I propose Kevin Miller away to QPR last year, anyone beat that?
East-End Eagle
09-05-2000, 08:00 PM
I reckon Cambridge away in the cup this season is pretty close (could have been the weather that is making me biased here), or "away" to Wimbledon in the 93/94 season, lost 4-0 and were pathetic (i think it rained for three hours in that one too).
Gooders
09-05-2000, 08:04 PM
I remember seeing a game against Walsall in the seventies (probably a 3rd division game) that finished 0-0 with the first shot on target coming in the 90th minute and even to this day I have never had the misfortune to see such a poor excuse for a game of football at Selhurst Park.
However, the 0-3 reverse to Wimbledon a couple of years back came close and there have been stacks of appallingly dull games against Coventry over the years - they must be the most consistently unattractive away team in the country (although given that their record away from home this season reads W 0 D 7 L 11 perhaps they're more adventurous now?).
The QPR 6-0 was nowhere near the worst performance from Palace - yes Miller was pathetic but the referee played a large part in the eventual scoreline too.
Dario
09-05-2000, 08:10 PM
Tranmere Home 98/99- absolute guff
Fat Andy
09-05-2000, 08:14 PM
Chris Armstrong's efforts before he left for Spurs,inspired the Sun to give him 0/10 for the first time.
Gavin Axten
09-05-2000, 08:23 PM
I was going to mention the last few away games before we got relegated in Armstrong's last season, at Southampton & Leeds away we did not seem interested the only game we really tried was the last match away to Newcastle but then it was too late.Salako and especially Armstrong were a disgrace towards the end of that season.
ANDY FROM BR1
09-05-2000, 08:33 PM
I remember a bloody diabolical effort at Bristol City in '88(?) in the League Cup.
It was so poor I went on a major league 24 hr piiss up afterwards, to try and extinguish the memory. And it must have worked 'cos I can't remember what the score was 0-3, 0-4, 1-4 or something like that.
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Gooders
09-05-2000, 08:44 PM
Oops! Just realised that R&B Glazier was after "individual" performances.
By the way, what is this doing in the away fans forum?
OK R&B, as far as individuals are concerned, you'll get no argument from me about Miller at QPR. A disgrace to the profession in general, and the Palace shirt in particular. I made myself hoarse for three days giving him abuse at Selhurst earlier this season and I'd do the same again.
Only Bassett could have wanted him after a performance like that.
James Simmo
09-05-2000, 08:50 PM
The german next to me says Nine the worst game was Liverpool
(L'Pool did play bloody well though)
Fat Andy
09-05-2000, 08:59 PM
nope,Liverpool 9 was my best ever game,lost my cherry that night ! ha ha
PeterH
09-05-2000, 09:26 PM
Miller (on purpose). I remember Mortimer having an appalling game where he couldn't keep the ball in.
Funniest comment I've ever heard on the Holmesdale terraces was directed at Rudi Hedman. He was coming across to take a corner and some wag shouted:
'Oi Rudi'
Rudi looked over and the wag said:
'Your taxis arrived'
The look on his face poor bloke, we were wetting ourselves.
PeterH
09-05-2000, 09:27 PM
Miller (on purpose). I remember Mortimer having an appalling game where he couldn't keep the ball in.
Funniest comment I've ever heard on the Holmesdale terraces was directed at Rudi Hedman. He was coming across to take a corner and some wag shouted:
'Oi Rudi'
Rudi looked over and the wag said:
'Your taxis arrived'
The look on his face poor bloke, we were wetting ourselves.
PeterH
09-05-2000, 09:27 PM
So funny said it twice.
Gooders
09-05-2000, 09:30 PM
So it was true then Fat Andy - Perry Suckling did play like he'd just been ****** up the arse!
Fat Andy
09-05-2000, 11:43 PM
Gooders - 1) it was after the game and 2) if I recall she was a dam sight uglier then Perry Suckling ! more along the lines of David Burke.
Eagle El
10-05-2000, 12:08 AM
Palace 0 Huddersfield 0
Last game of 72-73 season - yawn!
Funniest comment:
Ross Jenkins falied to control the ball for the umpteenth time (not in that game)
"He's like a wet wank!"
Ho! Ho!
1f53
Martin Searle
10-05-2000, 12:43 AM
Palace 0 Wimbledon 5 in the bleak Eighties is possibly my lowest point, although the 4-0 already mentioned against the same Wombles was pretty dire - I had to move my seat because of abuse from WFC fans (yes, both of them), we were embarrassingly bad, it peed with rain - and my windscreen wipers broke on the way home during said monsoon.
Big Fella
10-05-2000, 07:32 PM
As someone has already gone for the classic that was Palace 0 Wimbledon 5, I will give you this classic - Palace 0 Coventry 0 in the 91 - 92 season (or was it 92 -93?) It was a freezing cold day and Mick Quinn was rolling around in the snow. Both sides had one shot, not even on target. Absolute cack.
Benny B Block
10-05-2000, 07:44 PM
I think there was a spate of dire Coventry games in the early 90's.
One game that sticks in my mind for being particularly bad was the 1-0 defeat to Middlesboro at home (possibly a promotion season early ninties).
Soaked and cold standing on the Holmesdale, they scored and no one seemed to notice.
Cambridge this year is a very close second.
Can't disagree with Miller at QPR. Only other single performance bad enough to contend, for me, was Andy Gray's last game for us, against Coventry - he was a disgrace. He looked like he couldn't give a toss, we were 1-0 down, got a penalty, and who took it and missed? Zohar had a predecessor! Have to say, however, that for most of his Palace career, Gray was a great player - he certainly played the best football of his career while with us (as did Salako and Marky Bright).
Palace Don
10-05-2000, 07:50 PM
Worst performance??
Any one of the home defeats against Carlisle or Shrewsbury in the Early 80's!
Also, Coventry at Home in the Premiership two seasona gao, when they scored in the first minute!
Surely nothing has, or ever will come close to that dismal 0-5 home defeat against Wimbledon. Can anybody dig out and post the line-up for that day; a sort of rogues gallery of the guilty.
Wimbledon away 0-4 and home 0-3. Practically every Coventry home game and Shrewsbury game. Man City away 89-90 0-3, didn't get in there half once all afternoon, apart from when we kicked off each time.
Chocky
12-05-2000, 04:11 AM
Away at Peterborough sticks in my mind. It was the second leg of the League Cup and we were 3-0 up from the first leg. Alan Mullery took his side to their place and we turned out in that horrible Man U red & black away kit. We were so so bad and lost 3-0 and of course lost the penalties as well. That was the lowest point of the 80s doldrums for me - we still had the likes of Cannon, Gilbert, Murphy & Hilaire in the side but Mullery just reduced the whole team to sh*te with his big Brighton nostrils.
jonesy
12-05-2000, 04:34 AM
Originally posted by Eagle El on 05-09-2000 08:08 PM
Palace 0 Huddersfield 0
Last game of 72-73 season - yawn!
Funniest comment:
Ross Jenkins falied to control the ball for the umpteenth time (not in that game)
"He's like a wet wank!"
Ho! Ho!
Have to disagree on that one as it was my first Palace game and what hooked me completely even though it was pissing with rain.
Chester 76
13-05-2000, 01:34 PM
Originally posted by PJ on 05-10-2000 11:34 PM
Surely nothing has, or ever will come close to that dismal 0-5 home defeat against Wimbledon. Can anybody dig out and post the line-up for that day; a sort of rogues gallery of the guilty.
A nightmare, at a time when I could only go to a couple of games a season. Just as I was being dropped off nearby my brother who has little interest in football decided to go.I don`t know what was worse the game or the few days after.
sombrero
15-05-2000, 06:56 AM
i cannot think of a single players performance that was as bad as miller's @ qpr - the nearest i can think of was last season away at bury in the worthington cup.
we lost 3-0, and were decidedly pants, but deano was apppalling - the term used earlier ' wet w*nk ' was not out of place to describe him on that night.
it is the only time i know of, that a palace player recived a standing ovation........of boo's when he was finally substituted.
come to think about it, it was the only thing we cheered all night.........
Baby Duck
15-05-2000, 11:34 PM
I remember Fan at Barnsley (0-4) in his League debut was terrible. Him and Sun had been built up big time following their signings and there was Fan having a mare. I was gutted! He's since gone to become a decent player but that day I thought we'd made a very bad buy.
Can't believe Alan Pardew hasn't got a mention. Granted he scored THAT goal but people seem to forget during 1988-9 he was the target of the boo boys for good reason. Certain games that season he was terrible.
Blackfen Eagle
17-05-2000, 01:13 AM
Leyton Orient at home in the 3rd division in the 70's. It was absolutley freezing standing on the Holmesdale and it was a real terrible 0-0 draw.
Mat ov CPFC
17-05-2000, 01:43 AM
Cambridge away at Christmas was the worst total Palace experience in my life. Wet, hungover, a team that looked like they did not give a ****. Got home at 2.30am in the morning.
Worst footballing only experience has to be the 0-5 against Wimbledon.
Oh, and I remember a game against Birmingham in the late eighties at St Andrews. We won thanks to a corner that got blown in by the wind. Both teams were so dire that neither deserved a point.
Pistike
17-05-2000, 12:07 PM
Palace 0 Wombles 5 without doubt in my time following the club.
Coppell packs the midfield and 10 men go in at half time having seen more of the Gatwick air traffic than the ball.
Andy in Rome
17-05-2000, 12:47 PM
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I missed Mr Miller's end-of-season effort at QPR last year so I can't comment on that one: so for me the nomination for worst individual performance has to be Zohar.
In fact, any game he played would rank up there in the top flight of bad performances, but the creme de la creme was undoubtedly the match when he missed that penalty.
At the time that he stepped up to take the penalty, my mate turned to me and said "that's the first time in the game that he's moved out of the centre circle..."
A player for the connosieur of p*ss poor performances.
ammiller
17-05-2000, 01:11 PM
Originally posted by Gavin Axten on 05-09-2000 04:23 PM
I was going to mention the last few away games before we got relegated in Armstrong's last season, at Southampton & Leeds away we did not seem interested the only game we really tried was the last match away to Newcastle but then it was too late.Salako and especially Armstrong were a disgrace towards the end of that season.
Gavin,
In the words of Tom Watt on Talksport "good shout" on the John Salako bit.
The previous season when he came back from injury, and we won the championship, he had a terrible attitude, I think he was believing his own hype and bulls**t he used to come out with on Sky Sports, and it hit him hard when he realised he was no longer John Salako - England International and voice of Sky sports, but John Salako - struggling to hold down a place in a first division side.
I remember that season we won an away game 3-1 and Williams got 2. I remember the tv clip of Williams celebrating one goal with his team mates except for Salako, who seemed to be not interested and in a sulk. The next season when we went down his attitude all year was disgusting, but especially in those last games. I understand Gareth gave him a slap in the changing room after that Southampton game.
Whilst I am on slagging off Salako, there was a time when he was on the footballers football show on sky, and he was coming out with the usual cliches.
It went something like this.
JS: Players are playing too many games these days.
Ken Bates: Alright, if we cut the matches you have to play by half, will you accept a 50% cut in salary?
JS: errm..........
That said, he was a lovely lad before he got too bigheaded, and he had a terrific 90-91 season. Had it not been for his injury in September 91, who knows what sort of carrer he would have had.
It has got to be that bloody Cambridge cup match. Pissed on, both on and off the field, and I didn't get home until 3.15 in the morning. I never want to go back there again after that experience.
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