50 years. Pah! Jonny come lately! 56 years for me.

Best Palace player - Has to be Wilf
Best player to wear a palace shirt - Wrighty
Best match at SP - 5-1 V pompy some great goals
Best oppo player - Hendry Blackburn. Always had our players in his pocket.
Worst home match Palace 0 wilmbledon 5 Feb '85 With you on this one. Highlight for me. Baldy (i think) starting to sing rolfe harris two little boys!

Will add one. Best away Wrexham 2-4 '77

Plastic! 62 years this April for me.
Not many games can surely beat 2-0 Burnley Although 5-0 at home to Utd is close.
Johnny Byrne the best I ever saw in Palace shirt, closely followed by Sansom, Wright and Zaha.
Worst game, without doubt Wimbledon followed by Notts County first game after being relegated ( think it was 3 or4-0)
Best opponent? Too many to mention

Edited by Spiderman (07 Feb 2023 10.56am)

I guess the Notts County game you are referring to was the one in August 1973? We had just been relegated from the top division and they had been promoted from the third tier. Over the summer the club had undertaken a complete rebrand with new kit colours and design, new badge and nickname. I remember being in the AW stand on a sunny day and expectations were high both for the match and the season. We lost 1-4 and looked hopeless. It was a portent of what was to come.The last match of the season was on a wet and miserable night in Cardiff when the win required to stay up was not achieved and a second successive relegation was the outcome. The train journey back to London was as glum as the weather, especially contemplating the next season’s fixtures would be against the likes of Gillingham when the year before it had been Arsenal and Liverpool

I guess the Notts County game you are referring to was the one in August 1973? We had just been relegated from the top division and they had been promoted from the third tier. Over the summer the club had undertaken a complete rebrand with new kit colours and design, new badge and nickname. I remember being in the AW stand on a sunny day and expectations were high both for the match and the season. We lost 1-4 and looked hopeless. It was a portent of what was to come.The last match of the season was on a wet and miserable night in Cardiff when the win required to stay up was not achieved and a second successive relegation was the outcome. The train journey back to London was as glum as the weather, especially contemplating the next season’s fixtures would be against the likes of Gillingham when the year before it had been Arsenal and Liverpool

Since 1948 when I sat on my Dad's shoulders.

I was in awe of the size of the ground - just the main stand and then vertiginous grassy banks. No segregation so you could change ends at half time, which I often did in the hope of seeing a Palace score - usually got that wrong as the goals were usually at the end I had vacated !

Some memories:
FA Cup at Villa Park - we lost 4-3 but my namesake Dennis Uphill scored one. The Real Madrid match, us in a special silky kit plus Puskas and Di Stefano. The Oxford Utd bus being attacked - I wrote to Cyril Spiers offering to chip in for repairs!
The fruity and homophobic language, much worse then today, usually aimed at the ref. (that hasn't changed!) The supreme maestro: Johnny Byrne (first third division player to be capped by England) and the brave and athletic keeper, John Jackson, sadly never capped. Bobby Woodruff's long throws, half-time scores being posted up on boards. I was there in the Third Division South and through to where we are now - hope we stay there forever! Happy Days.