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It's a good point, Bipe. I'd heard that song about five times a day for months on the radio, who would ever need to buy it?
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UK Top 10 from that week...... 1 - (Everything I do) I do it for you - Bryan Adams 2 - I'm too sexy - Right Said Fred 3 - More than words - Exteme 4 - Move Any Mountain - The Shamen 5 - Set adrift on Memory Bliss - PM Dawn 6 - All 4 Love - Colour Me Badd 7 - Winter In July - Bomb The Bass 8 - Now That We've Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz 9 - Enter Sandman - Metallica 10 = Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Other bits of news in August 1991 23 August – Growing confidence over economic recovery has helped boost the Conservative government's popularity, as they return to the top of the MORI poll with a two-point lead over Labour putting them on 42%. 30 August - Scottish runner Liz McColgan becomes the first British gold medalist at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. Rioting breaks out on the Ely council estate in Cardiff. Main fads at the time were hypercolour clothing - which were touchable, heat-sensitive outerwear that changed color with the heat of the body wearing them, or the hands touching them. People were going mad for the Megadrive at this point too. . |
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"I will not fail or falter, I shall believe...." All those hours learning Move Any Mountain still paying off - I still remember the words |
Or as it was cruelly reinterpreted when news of 'one of The Shamen''s demise filtered through, 'I can drown drown, drown in a fountain'. Nonsensical anyway as he drowned in the ocean.
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Wow - you're right, just checked - didn't even know that!
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Bryan Adams's reign that summer was unreal and blew all those ones out of the water. Surely if you liked it you bought it in the first 6 weeks! And surely you'd heard it enough after week 12 that you knew you didn't want to own the single as you were sick of it by then! :eek: |
30 years to the day, a game that has gone down in Palace folklore and certainly up there as one of my most memorable Selhurst experiences. Just a crazy, crazy game, and really showed what a bloody strong and professional outfit we were. Wimbledon were no mugs, and to play an hour without your keeper and Salako in goal and win, was outstanding.
I was in the Holmesdale that night and just remember it being one of those angst ridden enthralling evenings with a happy and pleasing ending. When Martyn got his marching orders I, like everyone else, thought we’d had it; especially when Salako donned the keepers jersey. But he was totally inspired and the save at the end, to push away a goal bound effort, just capped it all off. There was obviously a lot of nervousness every time Wimbledon attacked, but the defence did well to limit their shots on target and Salako was always on his toes, ready to react. It seemed he was born for that moment. :D So despite the gods spitting in our cornflakes again, we managed to get the three points and were up and running. |
The greatest night time game in Selhurst history. Crystanbul was a great last ten minutes but this is number 1.
0-1 and Martyn sent off But then 2-1 up by half time and they had a man off as well 3-1 and Wimbledon down to 9 men! Robbie Earle makes it 3-2 with Wimbledon's first proper effort on goal after about 86 minutes - up to then Salako had performed admirably but without having a proper save to make. Absolute onslaught at the end. Wimbledon about to equalise....but Salako makes a legit reaction save. Crowd goes wild Hans Segers up in our box at a corner. Eddie gets the ball 80 yards from an empty Wimbledon goal. SHOOOOOOT!!! Ref blows the whistle and we never get to see if Eddie would have been able to outpace the Wimbledon players and finish it off. What A Game! |
The drama didn't end for me there. Getting the train home that night back to Chatham, I was nearly home when the train stopped near a tiny village station.
Eventually the announcement came through "Sorry for the delay, there is a man with a gun shooting at police and trains at Sole Street Station" Not something you hear every day! One lad walked up the train grinning and commented "Good, I hope he gets the bastards" I was more concerned for my own well being to be honest - I naively thought the plan would be for the train to hurtle through the station and we all just ducked down to avoid a bullet. The reality of course was that the train had to take a different route and go pretty much all the way back to London and then back down to the alternative Dartford-Gravesend route to get to Medway. Think I got home at 2am which was bloody late, making it a super late night for folk down in Ramsgate and Margate. |
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Love the way Salako bollocks the players right at the end just like a proper goalie would do
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Andy Gray = beast! |
Andy Gray was an amazing player for us, absolutely loved him.
The game against Wimbledon the season before had also been a classic, ending up 4-3 to us. Given what came to light a few years later, it's interesting to read that Hans Segers looked 'unusually shaky' in goal and he 'once again muffed a cross' for our winner. Maybe the betting gods were smiling on us that evening?? By the way the word 'muff' has criminally fallen out of fashion these days, in more ways than one! Memories of our pub quiz team the 'muff divers'. |
Reminds me of the lads at Gatwick Airport on their jollies all wearing their custom printed Olympic Muff Diving Team T-shirts!
True - muff has just gone....although is still a common term in NFL if punters 'muff a punt' |
I ballboy'd at the Sainsbury's end for that game - behind the goal.
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Was on the Holmedale that night , great game and an amazing atmosphere , my cousin came up from Ashford in Kent with a girlfriend for her first and possibly her only game ,remember him telling her it’s not always this good :supergrin::p
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I listened to the commentary again of the Swindon game recently and we pretty much controlled the second half to see the tie out This Wimbledon game as a standalone game is sensational. |
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