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10/11/90 Div 1 Palace 0 Arsenal 0 Our biggest home gate of the season: 28,181, sees us held at home by second placed Arsenal. This game could've gone either way and we thought we'd snatched it when Salako swept in a cross from Wright at the Whitehorse end; Salako wheeled away in delight; the scoreboard even flashed up 'GOAL!'; but the linesman had his flag up for offside. After the game, Arsenal manager George Graham said: 'People don't give Palace the credit they deserve. They have great team spirit.' 10 mins before the break......and that's how it stayed.
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Attachment: | Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.29pm |
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8/12/90 Div 1 Chelsea 2 Palace 1 I hated going to Stamford Bridge. Talk about a bogey ground: we never get anything there. Infact, to date i think we haven't won at the Bridge since 1982, when Kevin Mabbutt and Jerry Murphy scored in a 2-1 win. Didn't help in those days being 500 miles away from the play either. So not quite sure what's happening in this picture: could be Andy Thorn's goal to put us 1-0 up; could be a late attack trying to equalise; could be an alien mothership landing......who knows! Quite interesting to see the old 'shed end' there. Does it still look like that?
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.30pm |
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26/12/90 Div 1 Palace 2 Sunderland 1 Boxing day, and despite being by far the better side, we go into the last 20 minutes one goal down. But two goals in the last 12 mins from Salako and Bright ensured we stayed in 3rd place and still in the title race. Yes kids, i did say 'still in the title race'. Our following match was against league leaders Liverpool, which we won leaving us just 3 points away from them. Headline on one back page the day after: 'Palace throw title chase wide open'. Remember that Sunderland match being a real rain soaked day. Looks like Gray missing a chance there in the second half.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.31pm |
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6/1/90 FA Cup 3rd Rd Palace 0 N Forest 0 Live on the BBC, this game unfortunately didn't live up to its billing. Just a toughly fought match with both clubs holding firm. The replay of course was a 2-2 classic with Salako doing a 'Beckham' from the halfway line in the final seconds of the match. At the beginning of this match, Coppell recieved the Barclays League Manager of the Month award, after we won 5 of our 6 league matches in December. Has a Palace manager won it since in the top flight? Richard Shaw prepares to take a throw-in. The fan in front of him appears terrified at the sight of our Richard........he wasn't that ugly was he?
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.32pm |
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Andy Thorn at the forefront there claiming a throw-in. These pictures detail the highlights from the game quite adequetely actually. Incidentally, in the 2nd replay at Forest's ground, we got well and truely hammered 3-0. There was controversy at the end though when with 10 minutes to go, Brian Clough took Steve Hodge off and left his team down to 10-men. The thing was, Hodge wasn't injured, Cloughie just wanted to rest him for the next match! Apparently an annonymous Palace player stated: 'There was no question about it - Clough was taking the p***!' God, i miss the colour and joy Clough used to bring to football - a complete one off. Five days after this defeat we had to return to the City Ground once again for a league match. Revenge was sweet though, as Young's headed goal led us to a 1-0 victory and still only 3 points off league leaders Arsenal.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.33pm |
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16/2/91 Div 1 Palace 0 QPR 0 A frustrating goal-less draw against 3rd bottom Rangers. We just never got going. It was a bitterly cold day as you can see from the mounds of snow on this picture and the fact that nearly one half of the Holmesdale had to be closed due to the treachorous conditions. Think the game would've been called off today - health and safety! Staff and supporters worked beforehand to make the pitch playable.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.34pm |
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This game did hold some significance though. In the final 6 minutes we saw a certain Stan Collymore's debut for Palace after his £100,000 move from Stafford Rangers. Here he is trying to make an instant impact. Certainly one that got away was Stan. Having watched him a lot in our reserves, I felt he was the natural successor to Wrighty when he went to Arsenal, but Sir Steve just never fancied him in that role. Not sure if it was a football thing or a temprament thing. Shame, because it may have made Wrighty's departure not the downturn in fortunes it turned into, saving us the £1.8m wasted on Gabbiadini and also having a highly marketable player on our books. Four years after this debut for us, Liverpool bought him for £8.5m from Forest.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.36pm |
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9/3/91 Div 1 Palace 2 Southampton 1 Two second half goals in 3 minutes from Geoff Thomas sealed the match, his second from a free kick. Thomas said: 'It's normally imopossible to stop Andy Gray from taking all our free kicks, but i managed to talk him out of this one.' The newspaper report sated that it was another 3 points to fire up our Uefa Cup challenge......little did we know the skulldugery that would conspire against us the following month. 8 minutes gone in what turned out to be our lowest home gate of the season: 14,439.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.37pm |
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Looks like this may have been Southampton's consolation goal.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.37pm |
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19/3/91 ZDS Area Final 2nd leg Palace 2 Norwich 0 Back at Wembley! Okay, it was only the ZDS but still felt good to get there. After a 1-1 draw in the 1st leg at Carrow Rd, goals from Bright and Wright led us into the final. Mark Bright runs over to the Arthur Waite to celebrate heading Palace 2-0 up.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.38pm |
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That's it! The final whistle blows and we're back at Wembley. 4 days later we go to Leeds in the league and win 2-1. Bare in mind it's late March, we are still 3rd and just 5 points off leaders Liverpool.
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| Bubbs Edinburgh 22 Jun 12 12.39pm |
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7/8/91 ZDS FINAL Palace 4 Everton 1 As Thomas lifted the ZDS Cup aloft he shouted: 'WE'VE WON SOMETHING!'. Goals from Thomas, Salako and two from Wright won us the cup infront of 52,460. It was such a special day to be a Palace fan. One paper the next day reported: 'Ian Wright took Wembley by storm again yesterday to give Crystal Palace their first major trophy in the club's 71 year Football League history.' It was a great feeling at the time, but history has consigned that Cup as not being a 'major trophy', and not something we can really pull out and brag about to other supporters. Am i being ungrateful by saying it's a shame that this great side wasn't rewarded with the FA Cup or even the League Cup instead? In action. Note the faded American football lines still visible on the Wembley pitch courtesy of the London Monarchs. This photo is signed by the ref George Courtney (my mate who took these photos knew him). He actually turned out to be an incredibly lucky charm for us: not only refereeing this match, but also our Liverpool FA Cup semi final victory in 1990 and the game we won promotion against Blackburn in '89.
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