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View monkey's Profile monkey Flag Sittingbourne,Kent 23 Apr 20 9.50am Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

Originally posted by YT

I'm not sure it was all that regularly. Since England won the World Cup, there have only been 4 seasons where Palace and Orient were in the same division. Plus 4 cup ties in that time - a total of 7 seasons where the two clubs have met.

Okay then mr picky, we’ll say regular from about 1978 to about 1991, because I went to Orient away 5 times in that period, plus the home games, that’s fairly regular

 


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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 23 Apr 20 11.35am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by monkey

Okay then mr picky, we’ll say regular from about 1978 to about 1991, because I went to Orient away 5 times in that period, plus the home games, that’s fairly regular

You win!

 


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View Joe Bloggs's Profile Joe Bloggs Flag Nr Norwich 23 Apr 20 12.33pm Send a Private Message to Joe Bloggs Add Joe Bloggs as a friend

Possibly before your time but Dave Groombridge who shared goalkeeping duties with Ron George was a local lad to me and often joined in games at Thornton Heath Rec. He used to live in Strathyre Avenue Norbury.

 

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View Spiderman's Profile Spiderman Flag Horsham 23 Apr 20 12.44pm Send a Private Message to Spiderman Add Spiderman as a friend

Originally posted by Joe Bloggs

Possibly before your time but Dave Groombridge who shared goalkeeping duties with Ron George was a local lad to me and often joined in games at Thornton Heath Rec. He used to live in Strathyre Avenue Norbury.

What year approximately was this? I spent most of my waking hours at TH rec playing football. The name Dave Groombridge rings a bell. Did he play for local team/school

 

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Originally posted by Spiderman

What year approximately was this? I spent most of my waking hours at TH rec playing football. The name Dave Groombridge rings a bell. Did he play for local team/school

Just googled him, bit before my time, not much

 

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View Joe Bloggs's Profile Joe Bloggs Flag Nr Norwich 23 Apr 20 2.06pm Send a Private Message to Joe Bloggs Add Joe Bloggs as a friend

Originally posted by Spiderman

What year approximately was this? I spent most of my waking hours at TH rec playing football. The name Dave Groombridge rings a bell. Did he play for local team/school

He was At Whitgift Grammar, he was older than me but this was late forties early fifties. To give you a time line Ron Crisp ex footballer--Dulwich Hamlet-Watford-Brentford was in our group over the rec.

 

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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 23 Apr 20 2.18pm

Originally posted by monkey

Okay then mr picky, we’ll say regular from about 1978 to about 1991, because I went to Orient away 5 times in that period, plus the home games, that’s fairly regular

Thank you Monkey

 


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View rojosal's Profile rojosal Flag Purley 09 May 20 6.46am Send a Private Message to rojosal Add rojosal as a friend

Palace v Orient (since WW2)

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 09 May 20 7.01am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by rojosal

Palace v Orient (since WW2)

Interesting.

A few years back I found a spread sheet on the web which detailed by year and then by division the 92 clubs. Out of interest I wanted to compare how many years Palace were in each division versus Charlton and Millwall e.g. 13 years in the top flight 40 years in 2nd tier and so on.

I don't remember the exact numbers but at the time Palace and Charlton were almost identical with Charlton having been in the top flight more years than us (we must have overtaken them now). Anyway I guess this is how rivalry starts as outside of the top division all 3 clubs seems to be have a similar record over 100 years which meant playing each other more often than not.

 


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View Barcelona Based Fan's Profile Barcelona Based Fan Flag No longer Barcelona, now living in... 09 May 20 10.32am Send a Private Message to Barcelona Based Fan Add Barcelona Based Fan as a friend

Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle


Orient seem to have a lot of love on here mate.

We like true fans who follow true football clubs.

As was said earlier, wasn’t that long ago we were playing each other regularly.
Best of luck for the future fella.

They have no love for the Vermin at the Amex either so always had a soft spot for the O's I have a mate who's season ticket holder & goes from Littlehampton for most home games, although work sometimes gets in the way he does his best to go as much as poss.


Re that game in 82 I was also there and had a bit of a fracas in the pub after the game!about 15-20 of us were asked to leave even tho we were being well behaved apart from one burst of song anyway a Palace fan got glassed on the way out so all hell broke loose and lets just say a lot of windows went thro!

 


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Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM
I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton

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View lordgriff's Profile lordgriff Flag 08 Jul 20 8.19am Send a Private Message to lordgriff Add lordgriff as a friend

Good morning Palace fans, just bringing this topic back to the top of this forum.
Still really keen to track this footage down.
Are you aware of any Palace fans who might have old footage who may be able to locate it?

 

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View CharlesPaterson's Profile CharlesPaterson Flag 22 Jul 20 2.44am Send a Private Message to CharlesPaterson Add CharlesPaterson as a friend

Originally posted by lordgriff


Are you aware of any Palace fans who might have old footage who may be able to locate it?

Sorry, can't help with the footage but out of interest who was it missed the O's penalty that night..?

I was at the game but it was a long time ago.

 

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