I don't know what my first game was - mid sixties or thereabouts with my Dad and Grandad.
I never remember thinking about any other team because i was brought up hearing about Palace all of the time.
I absolutely love supporting CPFC and intend to have "Glad All Over" played on the way in at my funeral!

Does anybody remember the game when a big fog came down during the match (late 50s it must have been) and the ref called the game off. I was on the Holmesdale end bank and could hardly see beyond the penalty area. Also sound was muffled by the fog so couldn't hear the crowd beyond our end. So we didn't know the ref had called the players off the pitch. Neither did the goalie at our end. It was only after a number count in the changing rooms did they realise the goalie was missing and sent out a search party and it was only then that the crowd around me also realised .
I well remember all the old geezers around me as we made our way, disappointed, out of the ground complaining at how 'soft' the game was becoming, 'Would never have happened in the good old days.'

My first game is enshrined (?) in my signature block, below.

My second game, after having been hooked by the first, was 2-1 at home to Newcastle, who had Malcolm McDonald up front and who wore white socks with black hoops, which seemed a bit 'odd' even for the 70s.

Bobby Kellard executed a penalty almost as badly as Wilf did last week, but it somehow rolled into the goal with the 'keeper having dived the other way.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Same thing happened to Willo. Of course, he suffered brain damage as a result while it appears you emerged unscathed :-)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

My Dad took me when i was 4 (1969) i have never forgiven him , first sitting on the wall in the Whitehorse, then the Holmesdale, then the Arthur wait enclosure, then the Stanley Stephenson in the old stand.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn