I was at that one too, one of my all time favourite Palace away days. Rememeber the City fans during the match scaling the fences trying to get to us. Also remember just before we were led out of the ground one policeman saying to us all: 'Now, when we get out there, if I were you lads, i wouldn't say a word'.

'Better stop dreaming of the quiet life 'cos it's the one we'll never know'

I remember being on the supporters coach as we tried to pull away from Ninian Park in the late sixties, nothing was moving when crowd of Cardiff fans charged the coach & opened the back emergency exit - we stopped them getting in but the alarm was broken & we had to trave all the way home with the alarm going off.
At Blackburn their fans pelted the coach with bricks etc - this was after they charged round to Palace end of the ground when we scored - the 3-4 police officers there did little to try to protect us.
At Birmingham we arrived at the ground early and were just hanging around waiting for the gates to open when a rather large gang of brummies appears at the corner. they started walking slowly towards us then someone shouted charge so we legged it as quickly as we could before various missiles rained down on us.

Yes, i was at that match at Maine Road -the 3-1 victory- and remember being kept in. I seem to remember some corregated iron gates behind us that were kept closed. On the other side of them were some very upset City fans. I remember seeing the gates bulge in as what must have been some sort of battering ram rhythmically bashed into them for at least forty minutes. Like being in a beseiged castle I suppose - it just went on and on - relentlessly - then they must have been moved on /got bored. Walk back to car was scary I'd forgotten where I'd put it as each time i parked a possee of kids asked if they could mind it for me - and I wanted to keep the wheels. Funny thing is I knew Moss Side as had been at Uni in said city some years earlier, however that day I wanted to get well away. Also the semi against Southampton at the Bridge - did some Chelsea get in our end for trouble, or am I just imagining it

I agree. The Valentine's day massacre almost 35 years ago. It was very frightening as we played Chelsea off the park and "Eagles" echoed hauntingly around Stamford Bridge. That was too much for the Chels heeds as their thugs invaded the Palace areas in large numbers but were eventually thwarted by robust policing assisted by mounted officers.

Overall though it was a fantastic day. They couldn't handle Peter Taylor who scored two goals and we were superior all over the pitch.

lo Selhurst silva felix, lo Selhurst cara nutrix, viget, vigeat, vigebit! Best team:- Jackson; Gilbert, Evans, Cannon, Sansom; Hughes, Kember, McNichol; Byrne, Holton, Wright.

Do you remember MOTD later on that evening?

They showed the fighting at the North Stand end and Jimmy Hill going..."Look at that that lad in the flat cap doing kung fu".....LOL.... I'd love to know who that bloke was, I'm sure he was one of ours and he was battering everyone.

I remember that bloke and I'm sure he was a Palace fan. A crazy (but brilliant) day.

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'