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Mat ov CPFC
14-07-2000, 12:27 AM
What was the earliest, in terms of time, that anybody saw Palace play. Mine was in 76 but I am guessing that will be beat easily.
My betting is on Trolley going back into the 50's.
Al From Bromley
14-07-2000, 12:33 AM
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Spikemeister
14-07-2000, 12:55 AM
October 1966
palacenil
14-07-2000, 01:38 AM
Spikemeister, I also first saw palace play in october 1966.
vs Rotherham
Tony Humphreys
14-07-2000, 02:00 AM
September 12, 1959, v Hartlepools (h) 5-2.
I'd be surprised if no-one on the BBS could beat this. Over to Trolley?
Oisin
14-07-2000, 02:06 AM
1908. I'm a lot older than I look. That's what eating only red meat does for you.
selhurst
14-07-2000, 02:11 AM
29 November 1970, Palace v Wolves. Stood on the Holmesdale terrace, in about the same area that I now sit in.
selhurst
14-07-2000, 02:13 AM
Originally posted by selhurst on 07-13-2000 10:11 PM
in about the same area that I now sit in.
Should say MEANT to sit in. In fact, I'm still standing...
sneezy
14-07-2000, 02:27 AM
1971, but I don't feel this old!!
Neil the Eagle
14-07-2000, 02:42 AM
Sep 1970
jonesy
14-07-2000, 03:21 AM
72(?) v Huddersfield Last game of the season, 0-0 ,Pissing down with rain, Drenched on the Holmesdale hooked from the start.Weirdest part though is I had to work with my old mans mate repairing Lawn Mowers to get the money to go and where I live now overlooks where it all started.
le piddler
14-07-2000, 03:29 AM
My first game was @ home to Forest in 81 I think? it was the year we went down, & it was the last home game of the season & we lost 3-1 ,surprise!!!!!!
1946
Palace v Luton
10 goal Joe Payne was playing for Luton
James
14-07-2000, 03:34 AM
I was first taken by my late Grandfather - 1956 aged 5! Needless to say, I can't remember anything of the game.
Selhurst's remembered his first game:
..... 29 November 1970, Palace v Wolves ...
Amazingly, this was the last game I saw with my Grandfather - he died the following night. Trevor Dawkins scored the winner at the Holmesdale end - a classic 'banana shot'. I have a recording of the BBC radio report of the game somewhere - I'll try and dig it out and upload a RealAudio clip if I can find some time over the weekend.
Neil MacQueen
14-07-2000, 03:47 AM
Don't have ago right, Palace-Liverpool 1990 semi final. I am only 18 remember!
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Chocky
14-07-2000, 04:38 AM
Wow Neil, what a first game to go to!
First game was the first round match that started the 76 cup run.
August or September 1980, beat Middlesbro 5-2, Clive Allen scored a hat-trick after we were 2-1 down at half time. Relegated that season as the second worst team of all time in the 1st division. http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/furious.gif
Gooders
14-07-2000, 01:10 PM
1969
ruediger
14-07-2000, 01:56 PM
March 1975
Division III
Palace 1 (Peter Taylor), Huddersfield Town 1
sitting in Arthur Wait.
Vic Eagle
14-07-2000, 02:06 PM
1979/80 season v. Arsenal at Selhurst
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Egg Sample
14-07-2000, 02:23 PM
Don't remember my first game but my Dad assures me it was a boring 0-0 with N. Forest, I think in 1968.
In terms of time, the earliest I saw Palace play was 11.00 am against Brighton, on a Boxing Day!
Fat Andy
14-07-2000, 02:46 PM
First game was Bournemouth 1980.
Earliest was seeing Palace play at 09:30 in the morning vs. QPR last season, was watching it on tv on a beach in Antigua.
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Gerry Queen I wish
14-07-2000, 03:02 PM
1968 but I can't remember who. I stood on the grass bank where the Arthur waite is now.
I also attended reserve matches that year as well.Watched palace play Spurs with 10000 watching because Jimmy greaves was playing.
Palace Don
14-07-2000, 03:11 PM
1977/78 - Cardiff at home 2-0 to the Palace. Next game was a 5-0 htrashing of Chelsea ina pre-season friendly...Anyone who went to that. Chelsea had ex-palace trio Mickey Droy, Gary Locke and a very very young Ray Wilkins (with hair!) playing for them... Great initiation...
Sandy of Cornwall
14-07-2000, 05:28 PM
1969
Swampy Eagle
14-07-2000, 08:02 PM
1970
3-1 or 3-2 win for Palace against Southampton.
It was a school trip. We were taken to the ground on a coach, doors were opened and we were told be back at the coach for 5.15pm.
Now that something that wouldn't happen nowadays.
Once bitten I spent what was left of the season pleading with my dad to take me again. He did and we have rode the roller coaster that is Palace ever since.
SteveB
15-07-2000, 12:19 AM
January 1959 against Northampton. 1-1 on a muddy pitch and a scrappy game, with a lateequaliser from all-time legend Gerry Priestly (later he decided that he couldn't bear to live in the south of England, so he ran away to Halifax).
I'm still not sure why I ever came to see them again.
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1960. Remember the excitement, remember at least some of the Palace players, but the opposition made no impression at all.
lightweight
15-07-2000, 03:43 AM
Originally posted by Palace Don on 07-14-2000 11:11 AM
1977/78 - Cardiff at home 2-0 to the Palace. Next game was a 5-0 htrashing of Chelsea ina pre-season friendly...Anyone who went to that.
were these games in the summer??
I wonder if they were the first I went to ... I know it was around 77/78 - and in the 'warmer months' otherwise I doubt I'd have gone.. but I don't know which exactly was the first game
hong_kong_hg
15-07-2000, 03:56 AM
Palace 3-3 Wrexham
1977
I was 4.
philaire
15-07-2000, 07:33 PM
First match Dec'80 4-1 v Norwich
(big Mal's ill-fated return)
Last match Boxing Day'80 2-2 v Arsenal
Plenty of other games 1972-2000 "in spirit"!
Sussex Eagle
15-07-2000, 08:06 PM
I'm only 14, so it was 1990, no idea what match but I'll probably take a look through my programmes to see what it was
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as216
15-07-2000, 10:31 PM
1984 - one of the last games of the Mullery reign (of terror?), although I am one of those unfortunate sad individuals who can not remember a single detail about it - opponents, score, nothing.
selhurst
17-07-2000, 12:54 AM
Originally posted by James on 07-13-2000 11:34 PM
Selhurst's remembered his first game:
I have a recording of the BBC radio report of the game somewhere - I'll try and dig it out and upload a RealAudio clip if I can find some time over the weekend.
James, if you could that would mean a lot to me.
This Thread has made me feel both old and young.
Archiebald Leitch
17-07-2000, 01:55 AM
It feels like it may have been an FA Cup tie in 1871 against Hitchin, (0-0), but it was actually 1968 v Birmingham.
Rob Harmer
17-07-2000, 03:08 AM
First game I can recall was a floodlit friendly against Hamilton Accademicals back in 1955. We won 4-1
Blind_Eagle
17-07-2000, 09:52 PM
1968 and I can remember absolutely nothing about it!
Neil, Blind_Minors first ever game was the Liverpool semi when he was six. Shame he had to learn that not every game involving Palace is quite that exciting.
AnotherPete
17-07-2000, 09:59 PM
it was in 59 against Northampton I'm fairly certain - taken by my dad when I was 4. Remember nothing except the noise and the smell (yeah . . .) . .
Adrian
18-07-2000, 10:33 PM
Home to Brighton in 62 or 63...sat in the Old Stand.
Oldest programme I have is home vs Shrewsbury in 63-4 season: Ronnie Allen for us on the wing !!
Raggy
18-07-2000, 10:56 PM
Snap! with Palace Don.
2-0 at home to Cardiff in 1977/78.
First game was against Charlton 0-0 either boxing day or 28th Dec. I can't remember the year but Charlton had a player called Alain Simonsen?? who the Palace were giving it to the whole match. In front of us was a Charlton supporter, who midway through the second half had had enough of the abuse dished out, stood up and screamed
"he's got medal's on his tits, medals on his tits and what have the Palace boys got to show"
"Palace don't have tits" was the reply someone gave him.
Strathclyde Eagle
09-08-2000, 02:26 PM
Palace vs Portsmouth, 3rd round of the Cup, January 1990.
Taken because my Dad is a Palace fan and I lived near Portsmouth at the time. Was so cold I made my half-time soup last for about forty minutes.
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Zico Murphy
10-08-2000, 04:29 AM
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November 7 1981 - Palace 1 Blackburn 2
Sat in the old stand with my dad.Started watching palace the same time many people stopped.The palace team that day included Bason,Lovell,Galliers,price,Barron(and of course the great Zico Murphy).Not exactly a golden era but i've still been hooked ever since.
RUSSELL
10-08-2000, 04:48 AM
I think it was the last game of the season 87/88 v Man city, we won 2-0 but I can't remember who scored though.
Laurie
12-08-2000, 12:14 AM
Sept 1960 home to Peterborough. Lost 0-2
Went and watched Fulham in the old 1st div a week later, they lost about 2-6, so it was Palace from then on.
Mike Douglas
12-08-2000, 04:21 AM
April 1969, promotion in the last game of the season and we came from 2 goals down to do it.
Rob T
12-08-2000, 05:15 PM
1969-70 season home to Notts Forest. Got my programme autographed by half the Palace team. Still got somewhere.
perhaps someone could tell me when my first game was this is all i remember.
Charlton were the opposition
Vince Hilaire played
we didn't win (i think it was a draw)
Probably around late 70's early 80's
Palace hit the woodwork consistently but could not score. (Frustrating from day one)
Winter 78/79 not to sure which side of Christmas.
selhurstparkflyer
06-09-2000, 01:42 PM
Millwall..2nd Jan 1978 Nick Chatterton scored and we won 1-0.
My old boy used to take me and my younger brother to Reserves and we saw him put his gear on ready for the big match.
We pleaded and pleaded with him to take us and he got 3 seats in the back row of A Wait so we could sit on the backs of seats.
there were over 29,000 people there and I was hooked..went every game from then on.
It was f***ing marvellous.
My bro was less impressed, he started crying when the Doctor Who music came on (he was 3) and he ended up supporting QPR!!!!
Chillo
06-09-2000, 02:22 PM
I remember a West Ham match when Billy Bonds broke his leg - 1969/1971? Can anyone help my failing memory?
Must have lost it banging my head against the perimeter boards long ago.
walderslade eagle
06-09-2000, 02:45 PM
It was in '59, against crewe, I believe we wopped 'em by 7 or 8 but I'm not sure, the old grey matter's going!
Samo*
06-09-2000, 03:14 PM
1978, cant remember who we played,1-1, might have been qpr or norwich
arussell
06-09-2000, 03:32 PM
Football itself 1970 - but no Palace for me until the early 90's !
SIMON OF SELHURST
06-09-2000, 05:22 PM
November 1962, Palace v Hereford United FA cup first round. Palace 2 Hereford 0. I was only a nipper and living in Church Road in Upper Norwood, my Dad took me. I remember how totally overawed I felt, it was the best thing I had ever seen or done. I can remember the excitement and anticiation I felt on matchdays walking down Whitehorse Lane, and the dread I felt of my team losing.
Over the years we have got used to losing, but I still feel the same about going to the ground on matchdays. Sod's law though, my son and heir turned out to be a gooner!
eagle mart
06-09-2000, 05:38 PM
Chocky has dug this out for me before. Palace 1 Cardiff 1 (scorer Aylott). Circa 1984!? I can even remember he scored with a header and Jim Cannon hit the bar. George Wood was flicking V's into the Holmesdale as he was getting abuse. Bloody good memory considering I would have been eight.
Chocky told me last time the exact date, attendance and if I remember pitchside temperature. The thing I want to know is who was number one in the charts at the time?
Chocky
06-09-2000, 06:41 PM
Chocky told me last time the exact date, attendance and if I remember pitchside temperature.[/B]
And I also know your mummy had made you egg mayo sandwiches for lunch and the eggs were 3 months past their sell by date. That's why the terracing around you was empty, nowt to do with attendance.
Does anyone know where we can look up Palace's old results going back to the seventies?
Al From Bromley
07-09-2000, 03:20 PM
"Football itself 1970 - but no Palace for me until the early 90's !"
Russell you glory hunter! http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif
[This message has been edited by Al from Bromley (edited 07 September 2000).]
selhurstparkflyer
07-09-2000, 03:27 PM
Originally posted by Al from Bromley:
"Football itself 1970 - but no Palace for me until the early 90's !"
Russell you glory hunter! http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif
[This message has been edited by Al from Bromley (edited 07 September 2000).]
yeah, russ, you got away with that one a bit lightly. what 'football' were you watching before you found the holy grail??
arussell
13-09-2000, 04:21 AM
Me a glory hunter !!? http://www.cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif
Bought up in Fulham when I was a little 'un and watched them from the age of four - which is why I still go and see them from time to time, and have a lot of sentiment for them (although it is more like Chelsea these days).
I can remember seeing them when they almost went out of the football league (although I never went on a regular basis) and have fond memories of watching Best, Marsh and Moore.
A certain JJ on these boards dragged me kicking and screaming to my first Palace game in 1989.......
I still owe him a beer for all the pleasure it's brought me since.....
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