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Love Wilf - pure joy to watch but you cant compare the two re. Age. We have to judge them as players whilst at Palace - Otherwise you could say Southgate was better than Thorn, Young. Cannon etc Or Collymore more better than Bright etc.
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Personally I would take that 50 badge kisses for all the good memories on the pitch. Wonderful memories - think Chelsea at home, Blackburn, the Cup final, Liverpool at home. To name but a few. Off the pitch I take your point. Not sure I would trust him - Seems like the sort of bloke who loves everybody and nobody all at the same time.
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Got my first season ticket around the time he started at Palace. 1985/86? They were great times watching that team grow and then after a couple of seasons improvement start to thrash teams. Wright was a real gem of a player.
Anyone remember Wrighty and SJ in the away section terrace at Gillingham away a few years back? |
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Ian Wright played for Palace ????
You would never believe it the way history has been re-written. Anyway when my wife was in labour with my son Paul the nurse asked her if any names were lined up.My wife who had overdosed on gas and air replied "Ian Wrighty- Brighty". |
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Quite simply the biggest goal machine Palace ever had
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I was as devastated as everyone else when he left but he's still in my top 5 ever palace players. They guy simply never gave up on any ball. He'd chase a long punt into the corner, reach it when no-one else would have been quick enough, dart into the box and smash the ball into the back of the net. It was so obvious that he would play for England. And then there was the cup final! What an impact. The crowd were baying for him to come on and when he did....bang.
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I was at work in my first job at a record and CD distributors when I heard he'd left. I'd been there for a year sharing an office with Spurs fans who even had the audacity to insult my support for Palace the season we finished third and even they were gutted he'd gone to Arsenal. I actually saw Ian Wright play his first ever reserve game for us. It was in the days when the reserves would play at Selhurst on a Saturday afternoon when the first team were away. Everyone in the small crowd assumed he was actually called Andy Higginbottom due to a mistake on the typewritten teamsheet that was handed out.
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Just to add a couple of random memories of my own,him turning several plymouth players inside out before slotting home at the whitehorse end in a 5-1 win....and an awful game away at the wombles,suddenly bang bang bang,wrighty hat trick...not an awful game anymore!!! And may I recommend his rock n roll football show on absolute radio on saturday's...a refreshing change Last edited by monkey; 22-02-2013 at 07:13 PM. |
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Agree with all the posts praising Wrighty & reading all the memories of his goals on here brought wonderful memories flooding back. What a great period that was to be a Palace fan.
I like many others used to absolutely love him & when he left I was totally devastated. I was working at Midland Bank at the time & wore a black armband the following day to mourn our loss much to the amusement of other football fans once they knew why I was wearing it. There was an Arsenal fan there who said he didn't know why they'd bought him as he wasn't good enough for them. I told him he would love him after his first hat-trick which wouldn't be long coming. Low & behold 1 week later after his debut hat-trick at Southampton he loved him! I've never felt the way I did when Wrighty left & probably won't ever again. An outstanding player with a great winning attitude. He was also so fast with his floppy legs & some of his passing was sublime. Yes I hated him after the goals against us etc but as others have said since his apology, shirt swap with Lombardo & kissing our badge again & his goal & celebration at the Geoff Thomas charity game he is well & truly forgiven & I know choose to remember the best player I have ever had the pleasure to watch in a Palace shirt.
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Loved that video, some parts were genuinely moving.
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The day he left was the day I knew we would not progress into a 'big club'....not that it bothers me that we are not a so called 'big club' ....but it would have been nice for a while as those days of 30k+ crowds were special |
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I can’t help see old Palace season reviews and see Wrighty for a top goalscorer, match winner and a lot of what his game stood for reverberated through the club during his time here. Hungary, ambitious, potentially eratic, unpredictable but with moments of brilliance with good intentions.
I remember walking away from Plough Lane in May 91’ after his 20 min hatrick, as a 10 year old thinking “wow” a true hero, who I idolised. On that fateful day on Monday in September 91’ my Dad sat me down when I returned home from school, and put on teletext and I saw for myself, I was gutted. First time in my life I felt cheated, and perhaps only Lombardo’s departure (under far different circumstances) came close. May 93’ as a 12 year I left Highbury in tears, seeing a hero in my eyes hurt my one true love Crystal Palace FC. I was disconsolate and felt betrayed, it took me years to forgive him, but I can disguise the happiness he bought me in my early years of watching Palace. I met Wrighty a few years later at a signing, and as others have said don’t meet your hero’s. |
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He was quite simply an amazing Palace goal scorer and part of the best partnership ever at Palace.
I have many happy memories of goals and celebrations If he had been fit or even given the opportunity to play I am 100% certain we would have won the FA Cup and Alex Ferguson would have been sacked by Man Utd. However, Ian Wright walked away from us and has always been more vocal about his relationship with Arsenal and I still can't forgive him for it
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You new he would score every time Brighty use to flick the ball(his back to wright) over the last defender and into the path of Wrighty and that big gold tooth smile after scoring and them racing over to the arthur in the standing days.
Gutted when he left the best partner ship we ever had but he was too big for us and arse had the bigger stage for him. It was telepathic between the pair. |
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