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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 25 Sep 16 7.14pm Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Some things are beyond any man and I think it was Shrewsbury.

 

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View speroni2's Profile speroni2 Flag London 25 Sep 16 7.38pm Send a Private Message to speroni2 Add speroni2 as a friend

I like him, I'm to young to have seen him play but I know he was a fantastic player for us.

However, the lack of attention and support he gave us through are dreaded years in the championship was awful.

Only really started mentioning and associating himself with us once we got back up.

 

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View JeffBourne's Profile JeffBourne Flag 25 Sep 16 8.18pm Send a Private Message to JeffBourne Add JeffBourne as a friend

What a player Ian Wright was.

The most exciting Palace player I have seen in almost 50 years of supporting The Palace.

I was gutted when he left us for Arsenal, and disliked him for a a long time. Especially after the badge kissing incident, that I was there to witness.

I have forgiven him now, and only remember him in a Palace shirt with fondness and pride.

 


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simonmdt Flag x 26 Sep 16 7.04pm

Originally posted by Stuart Shave

Either you were one of the unpleasant individuals who scribbled disgusting graffiti over his Mother's house when he left us, or you never saw him play for Palace. You as a 'Palace fan' are the disgrace if you did see him play.

Wrong on all three accounts, sweetie.

 

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View MKGlazier's Profile MKGlazier Flag Milton Keynes 26 Sep 16 7.37pm Send a Private Message to MKGlazier Add MKGlazier as a friend

One of the great players in our history, but would have never have progressed so much with us without Mark Bright, so I think our greatest strikers as a partnership......something rare nowadays with most clubs playing just 1 up front.............................,a man that could do it on his own ? Don Rogers for me , wish we had got him earlier in his career, went pass people for fun in the days of cloggers and s*** pitches ..

 

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View Bubbs's Profile Bubbs Flag Edinburgh 24 Aug 20 7.53am Send a Private Message to Bubbs Add Bubbs as a friend

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Been meaning to upload this to You Tube for a while. Doesn't seem to be on there already. Sure many bought this video back in 1991 then promptly threw it out a few months later.

Looking back at it now, it's a good little documentary, charting his life right up to the point just before he left; none of that Arsenal debacle that happened late '91 onwards. To many of us, that's where the story ended anyway.

I would say this video is a collectors item for one thing and one thing alone; at 14:50 they show a clip of a training session at Mitcham. It's legend that Steve Coppell used to join in sometimes and be the best player on the pitch. Seen it with my own eyes when i used to go on occasion. I am almost positive it is Coppell you see here with a trade mark right wing run and cross.

 


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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 24 Aug 20 8.04am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Bubbs

It's legend that Steve Coppell used to join in sometimes and be the best player on the pitch.

Yet when Frank de Boer did exactly the same thing he was decried as being arrogant

 

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View kingdowieonthewall's Profile kingdowieonthewall Flag Sussex, ex-Cronx. 24 Aug 20 8.10am Send a Private Message to kingdowieonthewall Add kingdowieonthewall as a friend

Originally posted by Bubbs

[Link]

Been meaning to upload this to You Tube for a while. Doesn't seem to be on there already. Sure many bought this video back in 1991 then promptly threw it out a few months later.

Looking back at it now, it's a good little documentary, charting his life right up to the point just before he left; none of that Arsenal debacle that happened late '91 onwards. To many of us, that's where the story ended anyway.

I would say this video is a collectors item for one thing and one thing alone; at 14:50 they show a clip of a training session at Mitcham. It's legend that Steve Coppell used to join in sometimes and be the best player on the pitch. Seen it with my own eyes when i used to go on occasion. I am almost positive it is Coppell you see here with a trade mark right wing run and cross.

probably a myth, but still of interest,
there was a story that Coppell was considering being a suprise sub.for the final replay?

 


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View Bubbs's Profile Bubbs Flag Edinburgh 25 Aug 20 4.39am Send a Private Message to Bubbs Add Bubbs as a friend

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

probably a myth, but still of interest,
there was a story that Coppell was considering being a suprise sub.for the final replay?

Never heard that before. Mind you, Man Utd were allowed to suddenly re loan Les Sealey despite the fact his loan had expired, it was after the transfer deadline and there was no emergency as Jim Leighton wasn’t injured; so by the FA’s standards set there, we could’ve drafted in Coppell, Paul Gascoigne and Marco Van Basten for the final! Missed a trick.

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 25 Aug 20 7.32am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

probably a myth, but still of interest,
there was a story that Coppell was considering being a suprise sub.for the final replay?

I have a vague recollection of this as well. I expect it was just mind games.

The big talking point for us was would Ian Wright be fit to start, he had broken his leg earlier in the season. Well he came off the bench and scored 2 who knows what would have happened if he had started.

 


One more point

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View uncleneal's Profile uncleneal Flag Croydon 26 Aug 20 7.13am Send a Private Message to uncleneal Add uncleneal as a friend

Read loads on this through the years and actually talked to IW about it.

He wanted to start and should have started the replay. SC was trying to protect him so soon after injury but made the wrong call.

Sometimes the managers get it right like bringing him off the bench in the first game, sometimes they get it wrong.

The regret of not taking our big chance stays with me 30 years on.

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 26 Aug 20 8.36am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by uncleneal

Read loads on this through the years and actually talked to IW about it.

He wanted to start and should have started the replay. SC was trying to protect him so soon after injury but made the wrong call.

Sometimes the managers get it right like bringing him off the bench in the first game, sometimes they get it wrong.

The regret of not taking our big chance stays with me 30 years on.

You can understand SC's reluctance to risk Wrighty. His own career was ended by injury way too soon. If anything it is a credit to the man that he did not want that to happen to Wright.

It will always be on of those what if's.

 


One more point

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