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phillanth Flag London 21 Sep 16 5.11pm

Hope you all enjoyed my piece on my first Palace game in the programme on Sunday. I sent it in a couple weeks ago ago and forgot all about it until I opened the programme. Without sounding picky they left out a word in the second sentence and got the Liverpool line up wrong though. Whitham was a striker not a left back. That Thatcher-loving idiot Emlyn Hughes played at left back that day.

 

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View kayjaybee's Profile kayjaybee Flag orpington 21 Sep 16 6.09pm Send a Private Message to kayjaybee Add kayjaybee as a friend

I sent mine in as well, did they let you know it was going to be included ?

 

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phillanth Flag London 24 Sep 16 1.04am

No. I had forgotten all about it until I noticed it thumbing through the programme at halftime.

 

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Hoof Hearted 24 Sep 16 10.02am

Sadly couldn't be there in person.

When was your first Palace game? I'm assuming it was against Liverpool?

I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure mine was August 31st 1963 v Mansfield Town and we won 3-1.

I was only 9 years old and went with my older brother who was 12 and stood/sat on the grass bank above the Holmesdale terrace. My memory of the match and scorers is non existent but I know we got the 157 bus from Wrythe Green, Carshalton and bought a bag of monkey nuts from the bloke who chucked them from the pitchside.

I suppose I could cheat and look up the scorers on google, but it won't bring the images in my head back. I had a crew cut at the time and some bloke randomly rubbed my head as I walked by him.

We had just "upgraded" from watching Carshalton Athletic at home on a Saturday afternoon.

Edited by Hoof Hearted (24 Sep 2016 10.04am)

 

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View sea-eagle's Profile sea-eagle Flag Peacehaven 25 Sep 16 2.43pm Send a Private Message to sea-eagle Add sea-eagle as a friend

Mine was against Pompey in November 1966, I had been fired up to see a game after the World Cup earlier that year, despite having "supported" Palace as a schoolboy.

Sadly Palace let me down that day, they lost 2-0. My only sighting of legendary Bert Howe, Palace's anwer to Ron Harris I understand.

 

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View Eaglesnut's Profile Eaglesnut Flag Waterford 26 Sep 16 8.34pm Send a Private Message to Eaglesnut Add Eaglesnut as a friend

Mine has got to be around the same time - think it was a 2-2 draw with Brentford and we stood on the grass (mud) bank on the Holmesdale

Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

Sadly couldn't be there in person.

When was your first Palace game? I'm assuming it was against Liverpool?

I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure mine was August 31st 1963 v Mansfield Town and we won 3-1.

I was only 9 years old and went with my older brother who was 12 and stood/sat on the grass bank above the Holmesdale terrace. My memory of the match and scorers is non existent but I know we got the 157 bus from Wrythe Green, Carshalton and bought a bag of monkey nuts from the bloke who chucked them from the pitchside.

I suppose I could cheat and look up the scorers on google, but it won't bring the images in my head back. I had a crew cut at the time and some bloke randomly rubbed my head as I walked by him.

We had just "upgraded" from watching Carshalton Athletic at home on a Saturday afternoon.

Edited by Hoof Hearted (24 Sep 2016 10.04am)

Edited by Eaglesnut (26 Sep 2016 8.35pm)

 

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View Spiderman's Profile Spiderman Online Flag Horsham 26 Sep 16 8.58pm Send a Private Message to Spiderman Add Spiderman as a friend

Mine was 1960/61, we beat York 1-0 and I was in the terracing of the old stand. Can't remember who scored but was there with my Dad and Grandad, God bless them both for getting me into the Palace family.

 

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View chris123's Profile chris123 Flag hove actually 26 Sep 16 9.08pm Send a Private Message to chris123 Add chris123 as a friend

I erememn

Originally posted by sea-eagle

Mine was against Pompey in November 1966, I had been fired up to see a game after the World Cup earlier that year, despite having "supported" Palace as a schoolboy.

Sadly Palace let me down that day, they lost 2-0. My only sighting of legendary Bert Howe, Palace's anwer to Ron Harris I understand.

I remember that game, it snowed quite heavily and we weren't sure if he game would be played and Ray Hiron scored for them.

 

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View herefordeagle's Profile herefordeagle Flag Hereford 29 Sep 16 6.47pm Send a Private Message to herefordeagle Add herefordeagle as a friend

Pretty sure my first game was September 95 when I was finally old enough to travel to a game on my own , was Birmingham away , the score 0-0 and the game was awful. My first home game I think was the same year , a couple of months later , it was against Derby , the score 0-0 and another awful game !!! The first truly entertaining game I went to was I think later that same season when we won either 4-1 or 4-2 away at Oxford *just checked online , wasn't far off 09/09/95 Brum game 25/11/95 Derby game but wrong about Oxford , that was 01/03/97

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phillanth Flag London 13 Oct 16 1.59pm

[quote=Hoof Hearted;3061171]

Sadly couldn't be there in person.

When was your first Palace game? I'm assuming it was against Liverpool?

I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure mine was August 31st 1963 v Mansfield Town and we won 3-1.

I was only 9 years old and went with my older brother who was 12 and stood/sat on the grass bank above the Holmesdale terrace. My memory of the match and scorers is non existent but I know we got the 157 bus from Wrythe Green, Carshalton and bought a bag of monkey nuts from the bloke who chucked them from the pitchside.

I suppose I could cheat and look up the scorers on google, but it won't bring the images in my head back. I had a crew cut at the time and some bloke randomly rubbed my head as I walked by him.

We had just "upgraded" from watching Carshalton Athletic at home on a Saturday afternoon.

Edited by Hoof Hearted (24 Sep 2016 10.04am)



Yes it was home to Liverpool on 16th January 1971. We won 1 0 with a late winner from Gerry Queen.

 

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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 07 Jan 17 8.51pm

20 Feb 1965 home to Notts Forest (Div 1 team then) in the FA Cup, we won 3-1 - hooked.

 


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View Michaelawt85's Profile Michaelawt85 Flag Bexley 07 Jan 17 9.47pm Send a Private Message to Michaelawt85 Add Michaelawt85 as a friend

Mine was the 1989 palace v Birmingham game. I don't need to go into further detail . Didn't put me off thankfully

 


When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

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