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Actually it reminds me somewhat of The Apprentice 'this week you're going to be running an ad campaign' episode.
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I was at Liverpool University back then, and used to make most of the "northern" away fixtures. I was fully intending to go to this match, but woke up in the company of an extremely likeable young lady that I had recently started seeing. The lure of a warm house (they had central heating which was rare for students back then), Ceefax (again rare), a cooked breakfast etc. was simply too much to resist.
Unfortunately her housemate had had a row/split up with her boyfriend so my day was interrupted. Once that was sorted the match had started and I was following it on Ceefax/Radio, and was not to be distracted. A bit of an argument ensued, including a discussion on priorities in life, and that was that. Back to my cold house. At least Palace had won, which was the main thing. |
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I remember the upper tier was wooden and we used this to great effect to make a hell of a din.
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Missed this thread until now. Will try to get on board though. I definitely have a scrapbook somewhere - but may take me a while to dig it out.
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I suppose the Derby game illustrated just how Coppell had struck gold with the Wright and Bright partnership. Garry Thompson had done a first rate job as stand-in, firstly for Wright's broken leg at the back end of the previous season and then as Bright regained fitness at the start of this. But in the first league game in which the two of them start, they score a goal each in a 2-0 win.
It really was a magical partnership and probably hard for younger fans to understand why and how it was such a big deal. These days we think we've struck gold if we can find one striker who can give us 15+ goals in a season. But if you look at the stats four the four seasons from 87/88 to 90/91, Wright and Bright delivered 178 goals, pretty evenly spread between the two. In other words say 45 per season or roughly one a game on average including cup games - probably a bit better than that once you take out games missed due to injury. Imagine a world where you turn up to every game with absolute confidence that at least one of your two strikers is likely to score. Poor old Christian Benteke will be turning in his grave at the very thought. |
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Brighty struggled to get up to speed in the First Division - took him until that Millwall game to score in the leagie IIRC yet still ended up on 17 goals for the season in a team threatened with relegation, plus he was without his strike partner from pretty much January onwards. Now we'd go potty for someone scoring 17. Christ, Ayew was anointed last year for scoring 9!
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We just seemed on such a roll at the start of this season and the 2-0 win was very comfortable if I recall rightly. |
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On 6 October we welcomed Leeds United to Selhurst Park. They had come up as champions the previous season, after having spent the best part of a decade outside the top division. They quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with and of course would go on to win the league the following season.
They were something of a mixed bag under Howard Wilkinson, certainly direct at times with Lee Chapman spearheading them up front in a traditional target man role. But the midfield quartet of Strachan, Speed, Batty and McAllister was as good as anything around in those days. Even Chapman to be fair was a better footballer than many gave him credit for, hence why he had slotted nicely into Brian Clough's Forest side for a couple of seasons. One of our short-lived old boys Chris Whyte had developed into a key player at the back for them. The match ended in a 1-1 draw, Geoff Thomas notching for us with his third goal in four games. I remember it as a pretty tight and highly competitive affair, a draw probably being the fair result. But I await the match report with interest. |
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I remember it tight too. Leeds fans very noisy. You’d never have guessed they’d win the title the following season.
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Was a cracking atmosphere but I found it a very frustrating game. Here were a newly promoted team that already looked like they were an established top flight side. It was a tough scrap from start to finish. They really had the fight about them and you couldn’t help but have grudging admiration for them. Felt we finally slapped them down when Thomas slotted in, only for Leeds to equalise from a corner minutes later.
Worth noting that Liverpool at this point had a 100% record. In fact, up until late February, they’d only lost twice in the league, against us and Arsenal.
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Yes Liverpool started that season like a train, maybe putting lie to the often held view that our win against them at Villa Park had left deep and irredeemable psychological scars. At this stage of the season they seemed to Havelock shrugged that off without too much difficulty and were off and running in pursuit of yet another title.
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Decent enough game but also one of many that if we'd turned a home draw into a win, might have fuelled a real title challenge from us rather than 'outside chance' at the title.
Weird to see Luton so high after they'd only escaped relegation with the most outlandish of comebacks in the last two games of the 1990 season (last minute winner v Palace; followed by comeback 3-2 win at Derby after being 2-0 down) Weird thing I remember from behind the goal in the Whitehorse is the ball bouncing towards an open goal with Gary Speed (also facing the goal) able to clear it. I blamed myself for not screaming "SHOOT!" as he might have instinctively reacted to the shout and smashed it into the goal for a Palace winner. Ahhh the innocence of youth when all you want to do is whatever it takes to help the team.
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If you look at the picture of Pardew tackling Batty above, isn’t that the Cup Final dance expression Pards is wearing?
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Other news at this time....
Oct 3 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight. Little did we know that this historic news would be significant to Palace by the end of the season. Come April, and the whole Uefa cup spot debacle, East Germany were still given four European spots despite no longer existing, meaning England were only given one spot. The English FA, who fought hard and long to get Liverpool’s ban rescinded, didn’t bother to raise this issue with UEFA on behalf of Palace.
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So taking you through the movers and shakers into the top 10 for week ending 6 October 1990:
Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton - David Lynch movie tie-in as I recall. Somewhat baffling as to why it was so popular second time around, it eventually made it as high as number 2. So Hard by Pet Shop Boys - one of their most enduring tracks, thanks in the main to the intriguing story-telling nature of the lyrics about infidelity. The Anniversary Waltz Part One by Status Quo - AKA 'On and off and on again' I think this is the one the Wankers nicked for their cup final song 'Come On You Reds' a few years later. Dominated by a highly annoying keyboard riff earworm. I Can't Stand It! by Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood - as mentioned by the Grim Reaper on this thread last week, here it is arriving in the top 10 in all its day-glo 1990s glory. |
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It's also a challenge that would earn a red card these days...
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