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Strathclyde Eagle
16-04-2000, 07:01 AM
Okay, here's a challenge to think of the most obscure things that have taken place during Palace games during our time as fans.
I'm starting this purely because for some odd reason I can't stop thinking about it.
Who, playing as an emergency right-back (if I remember correctly) found himself being bundled off the ball by Chris Armstrong in a Coca-Cola cup game in 1994 prior to Coco-Pop nose scoring our fourth goal just before full time?
If you remember make sure a glory hunter at work is told of it!
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i am certain i remember a very strange goal scored by sperz against j burrage in 1980/81? but can't find nobody with the same memory
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dickie
18-04-2000, 09:45 PM
no answers to above, but seem to remember a drop ball between two palace players at Selhurst during the Anglo-Italian cup a year or two ago!
it was at the whitehorse lane end (now the sainsbury's) & i'm sure it was ossie a****** that scored and ended up going off on a strether
dickie
20-04-2000, 04:40 AM
one of the funniest has to be against Leeds early '70s and it was either John Sewell or john Mcormack floating one in and Gary Sprake letting it slip through his hands or the real classic was the Wombles last match at Plough Lane when Wrighty lobbing beasant from the centre circle
Strathclyde Eagle
20-04-2000, 04:57 AM
So does no-one remember Dwight Yorke having to play at right-back for Aston Villa on that particular night?
I suppose it isn't high on his list of "Favourite Football Memories"!
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Gooders
20-04-2000, 12:51 PM
I've only just read this thread Strath, honestly, and I knew straight away that you were talking about the Yorkie boy.
He looked as pants as one would expect playing there that night.
My abiding memory from that game is the Villa fans singing "we've only got 10 men" when they were 1-0 up and us singing "you've only got 10 men" when it was 4-1 to us!
I also seem to recall that Darren Pitcher scored a screamer in that game (or was it when we beat Man City 4-0 in the quarter final?).
Txomin Etxaniz
21-04-2000, 04:10 AM
What about the bizarre ending to the home match v Fulham in (I think) 78-79. A gloomy walk down Holmesdale Road after our 1-0 defeat was interrupted by a loud cheer from the ground. Thinking it just meant that a wee fracas had broken out (or perhaps the reaction to news of the Seaweeds losing) my friends and I continued our journey home. Little did we know that the teams had in fact returned to the pitch to play a few more minutes, the idiot referee having eventually realised that he ended the match prematurely!! Unbelievable or what?
As luck would have it, the game was featured on the following afternoon's Big Match, so we were treated to a full rundown of events by Brian Moore. Sadly, we still didn't manage a late equaliser.
Or did I just imagine it... http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/wink.gif
Strathclyde Eagle
21-04-2000, 05:11 AM
Originally posted by Gooders on 04-20-2000 08:51 AM
I also seem to recall that Darren Pitcher scored a screamer in that game (or was it when we beat Man City 4-0 in the quarter final?).
Right second time - that was the game against Man City when we went mental in the second half.
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tomario
23-04-2000, 05:58 AM
Shame we couldn't get results like that in the league that season.
Small number
23-04-2000, 02:15 PM
It might have been last season a team forgot there kit and had to play in our away one? (might have been Birmingham)anybody else remember that?
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Yes, I remember, and it was Birmingham. They played in our yellow kit, so both teams had TDK on their chests (did we get a bonus payment from TDK for that?) And just to rub salt in the wounds, Birmingham won - as far as I remember the only victory ever secured by a team wearing that kit!
Moontoad
23-04-2000, 08:40 PM
Along the same lines does anyone recall a game in the 1976/77 season at Selhurst against Grimsby,when the visitors for some reason had to wear Palace's away kit namely the famous red and blue stripes? Our home kit for that season was the red and blue diagonal sash going across a white shirt.
The result was a 2-1 victory to Palace.
Still on the subject of kits (I'm on a roll now!) does anyone else recall the red and black stripes worn during the 72/73 season as an away kit? This was similar to Man City's away kit of the time.However the only time I saw us wearing this design was at Selhurst in a midweek cup replay aginst Sheffield Wednesday.I think it was only introduced halfway through the season, although not to coincide with big Mal's arrival from City as Bert Head was still in charge at that point. Could be wrong though.
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Chester 76
24-04-2000, 12:29 AM
I seem to recall seeing photo`s in a Palace programme 83-84 of Charlton, having to wear our kit with the blue & red diagonal stripes & Palace won.
Chocky
24-04-2000, 05:10 PM
77/78ish we played in Sheffield United's yellow away kit at Bramell Lane - and won 2-0.
A few years back Reading wore green socks - I think they were borrowed from a local pub team - the Clifton?
And remember the days when dogs running on the pitch were a regular occurance?
Maidstoned Eagle
27-04-2000, 07:54 PM
You're right about the Sheffield one Chocky . I can remember a photo in the programme of Rachid Harkouk challenging Tony Currie(?) and you could clearly see the badges were the same.
Mines gotta be last years equaliser against Birmingham. Quality!
Dobbo
27-04-2000, 08:23 PM
No idea which match, but I remember Mel Blyth coming on a substitute at Selhurst once wearing a watch. We kept shouting out "How long left Mel ?", but he never realised why.
Ralph
27-04-2000, 08:32 PM
I remember a few years ago, I think it was Palace.V.Birmingham at home when Freedman and Dyer went for the same ball and both lost it, the ball then belted a sponsor board and bounced back into touch. A slightly disorientated Bruce Dyer then latched onto the ball and darted into the penalty area crashing a shot just wide despite the ref blowing his whistle for a good 3/4 minutes!
Egg Sample
27-04-2000, 08:34 PM
I think Len Chattertons Beatle Roller which used to come on the pitch to flatten things down abit was pretty obscure. Anyone got a picture? Neil, James?
Maidstoned Eagle
27-04-2000, 09:06 PM
AAH Yes! "The Flatterer". Wasn't it a Fiat first though, and then a beetle? All us kid's (5 of us!) used to chant "Super Roller" when it came out. I think our penalty areas could do with it now.
Neil the Eagle
27-04-2000, 09:12 PM
(this was supposed to be quoting Chocky's comment about Dogs, but the quote got lost somewhere!)
Still happens every other week when Wimdledon are at home http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/wink.gif
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Trolley
01-05-2000, 11:11 PM
I have vivid memories of a rather cheerful rotund man who used to stand on the door of the old supporters club hall which was housed behind the old stand in the 70's.
Can anybody remember him ?
Also I remember a rather old lady who used to sell peanuts in a bag on the Holmesdale.
Mickey Droy's twin
01-05-2000, 11:48 PM
In the late sixties early seventies, at every home game there used to be a supporter that brought a huge St Bernard dog with him on to the Holmesdale, the dog used to wear a claret and blue scalf.
SteveB
02-05-2000, 12:35 AM
Does anyone remember a miracle which occurred at the game against Fulham in 1969, when we reached the old Division 1 for the first time?
Disabled supporters used drive in front of the old stand in their invalid carriages, and were helped by club staff on to benches in front of the stand enclosure. They had all supported Palace for many years, and were quite genuinely severely crippled. When Cliff Jackson scored our third and winning goal, one of these supporters lept off the bench and on to the pitch, jumping around and waving his crutches in the air. Eventually he realised that he couldn't actually do this, and one of the players helped him back to the bench.
Which player? This is a story about a miracle - it had to be Mark Lazarus.
Baby Duck
02-05-2000, 04:39 AM
My fave has to be the time v arsenal in 1990 the week afterthe 4-3 semi final, when Nigel kicked the ball upfield and clattered a seagull in flight. It looked like he'd killed it but as it plummeted to the ground, it recovered and flew off. Quite amusing as the ball changed direction and landed straight at a Palace player's feet. (The only time a Palace goal kick has gone to one of our players I believe!!!)
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Dai the Swansea Eagle
02-05-2000, 11:57 AM
Am I right in remembering a team (Swindon??) coming to Selhurst in the late 80's and having to wear Palace's youth team kit due to a colour clash? I think it had been worn by the youth team in the morning too.
Gooders
02-05-2000, 12:34 PM
Quite right Dai - I was about to post that thought myself - fancy having to wear someone else's dirty kecks!
As Archiebald Leitch mentioned a couple of weeks back - the old bird who used to sell the "roasted peanuts, sixpence a bag" was called Mrs. Minchinchilla or something similar.
Matty
02-05-2000, 02:44 PM
My vague memory of that game, Dai, was that they didn't wear that kit at first. Didn't they get sent back in by the ref because of a kit clash, or change at half time?
It was dirty though.
I remember a game in the mid 80's. George Wood was in goal, fumbling everything. We were standing on the Holmesdale and the ball
was cleared toward the steps on the outside end of the old stand. There was a steward standing there, back to the game, admiring the sunset and the ball was screaming towards the back of his head. The crowd shouted at him and he turned just in time to catch the ball perfectly in his hands. we launched into a long erndition of "sign him up, sign him up"
I remember a game also in the mid 80's against Charlton and it was pissing down. An innocuous cross came in from the left and the Charlton defenders and goalie all move across to pick it up and clear it. But it hit the ground near the penalty spot and stopped dead. Kevin Mabbutt strolled up and buried it into the gaping net. We won, 2-0 I think.
Gooders
02-05-2000, 05:01 PM
We turned up one time for a night game and as we entered the Holmesdale we couldn't get very far in to the crowd as there were a lot in (can't remember who we were playing).
There was a guy who was clearly as pissed as a wicket near the top of the terrace, close to the base of the floodlight.
His mates and many people around him were taking the piss big time.
It was blowing a gale that night and all of a sudden, this guy blew chunks! Honestly, I swear that the puke drifted about 20 feet across rows and rows of people who all got spattered.
No one was laughing then.
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Dai the Swansea Eagle
02-05-2000, 05:29 PM
Originally posted by Matty on 05-02-2000 10:44 AM
Didn't they get sent back in by the ref because of a kit clash, or change at half time?
About the same time Sheffield United played us with a lunch time Sunday kick off (certainly wasn't on tv but I think it got a decent crowd for that "era"). I think they changed their kit from stripes to yellow at half time.
Maidstoned Eagle
04-05-2000, 04:20 AM
The pissed bloke story remind's me off an incident at Craven Cottage a couple of season's back. We played them in a friendly and this group of lads turned up totally shot away. But as is usual there was one chap worse than the others.
The game kicked off and 5 minutes into it he slumped to the terracing and fell asleep! He was the subject of much amusement for the rest of the half, until he woke up before the half time break.
It was then his mates proceeded to tell him he had missed a 6 goal thriller with Shipperley getting a hatrick(he scored one goal) and we were winning 4-2 with a few minutes left of the game. When the half time whistle blew he stood there, called his mates all the names under the sun for letting him miss such a good match and tottered off out of the ground and went home convinced the game was over!
andy burton
04-05-2000, 08:26 PM
Palace v Swindon (6-2 - mid 70's) Palace were 5-0 up (5 goals in 11 minutes - new FL record)and a bloke arrived late..asked us what the score was. When we told him he threatened to give us a slap! (I was about 14 at the time)because he thought we were joking.
Also travelling back to Lime Street station after drawing with Liverpool 0-0 in the cup and being subject to a wave of bricks through the bus windows.
Johnny Byrne taking a lump out of the old stand roof while playing for Fulham in 1969 - match won 3-2 to gain promotion to Div 1
Vince Burridge
08-05-2000, 05:05 PM
Which match was it where John Burridge knocked Jim Cannon out when trying to punch away a corner?
Kevin T
08-05-2000, 05:26 PM
I remember a guy at Swindon away a few years back, totally wrecked and lying across three of four seats asleep. Everytime we lost the ball we'd all shout "Wake up Palace!" The pissed bloke found this hilarious and managed to chuckle every now and again before returning to the land of Nod.
ANDY FROM BR1
11-05-2000, 01:54 AM
Originally posted by Baby Duck on 05-02-2000 12:39 AM
My fave has to be the time v arsenal in 1990 the week afterthe 4-3 semi final, when Nigel kicked the ball upfield and clattered a seagull in flight. It looked like he'd killed it but as it plummeted to the ground, it recovered and flew off. Quite amusing as the ball changed direction and landed straight at a Palace player's feet. (The only time a Palace goal kick has gone to one of our players I believe!!!)
QUACK QUACK
I seem to remember Tony Burns doing something similar, though I think it was a pigeon, back in the mid 70's. Can't remember who it was against but it was hoofed from the Whitehorse End.
Tony Burns hit the pigeon in the match against Grimsby when they were forced to wear our red and blue striped shirts because their white and black clashed with our white with the sash
northernsouler
16-05-2000, 09:42 PM
During a boring home match in 3rd division I swear I saw a couple in throes of stand-up sex on the Holmesdale terrace. Strangley neither she or he took clothes off (both clad in denim(.
Pistike
16-05-2000, 09:52 PM
Mid 80s game standing on the Arthur enclosure waiting for KO when some poor old bloke in overcoat and flat cap pops his clogs. Peed himself all over the terracing.
Can't remember the result or the opposition but then neither can he.
Fat Andy
16-05-2000, 10:09 PM
I remember one of my first games and Billy Gilbert had this shot and it hit my dad square in the face and smashed his glasses - haven't pissed myself as much since (and we were standing near the corner flag !)
ANDY FROM BR1
19-05-2000, 12:42 AM
Originally posted by Fat Andy on 05-16-2000 06:09 PM
I remember one of my first games and Billy Gilbert had this shot and it hit my dad square in the face and smashed his glasses - haven't pissed myself as much since (and we were standing near the corner flag !)
Ah Billy Gilbert, that reminds me. Two ridiculously long rocket shots from what I remember was about the half-way line. Scored one possibly against West Ham and the other I think was away to Charlton and crashed against the bar.
The shot that hit Fat Andy's dad was obviously his third and last attempt.
Vic Eagle
19-05-2000, 02:35 AM
I remember Billy Gilbert scoring from ridiculously long range against Bolton at Selhurst in 1980 I think...
ANDY FROM BR1
20-05-2000, 02:40 PM
Bolton....West Ham....what's in a name? I assume if it was Bolton we didn't win.
What about hitting the crossbar did that happen?
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Chester 76
20-05-2000, 07:10 PM
I don`t know about Bolton but Billy Gilbert did score from a long way out against West Ham. I don`t remember it being a rocket shot, just a general hoof down the pitch but the ball dropped into the net with the keeper stationary. I think the keeper claimed he`d lost it in the sun.
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