I went out for my lunch at work only to find the whole Palace team in the pub doing a promotion for the Croydon Advertiser, Mark Bright top bloke loads of time for ya never looked down on you, but Ian Wright t*** with atittude up his own ar*e.

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Mark Bright is a legend.
John Salako is a legend.
Dougie is a legend.
AJ is a legend.

I have had chats with the above four and they didn't dissapoint.
The whole squad are nice guys at the moment, was a mascot in '08 against Sheff Weds, and Jules was the nicest.
Although he did get annoyed when Butts called him Julian. He demanded it be pronounced properly: Hulian.

John Salako was brilliant and also Gareth Southgate, those two stick out from when I met the players when I was a lad.

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Certainly isn't wilfred zaha- met him after the Ipswich game the other week and he seemed a right miserable b******!

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Geoff Thomas. Had a great alcohol ridden chat with him at Crystals after we were promoted in '89.

John Fashanu - in his loan spell at Palace - made a very young Bubbs a very happy boy (get your minds out of the gutter holers!).

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

Geoff Thomas is a really pleasant guy and I recall talking with him after FA Cup Final replay defeat.He said that he was really disappointed after the game for several reasons.Apparently Steve Coppell warned them that Man Utd,with all there experience,would put extreme pressure on us and we should not over react.However his first tackle on one of their defenders was over the top,by mistake as it goes,but they sucked us in and we responded and paid for it.Just to top it all when he got back to the dressing room his camera was missing,with all the photos he had taken pre-match.
Never did find out if he retrieved it.
Also Nigel Martyn is a great guy and when I said to him that he would get an England cap he said,no way there were many others keepers way ahead of him.
As we all know he did and had a great career!

However,the best for me has to be Johnny Byrne,a favourite of mine on the pitch as I was growing up and also a great guy who had a lot of time for us youngsters and would always go out of his way to chat about the club,his own ambitions,which were modest as it goes and his love for Palace.
He was an ordinary no frills guy!

Edited by eagle in cornwall (29 Aug 2010 10.14pm)

........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................