Ok can anyone definitively say there is no Johnny Byrne bar at Selhurst. Thank you.

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

In 1991 Ron Noades, Chairman of CPFC, opened a 'Johnny Byrne' hospitality suite in the Main Stand. Byrne, undoubtedly our greatest post war player then a Manager domiciled in South Africa, was invited to ceremonially open the suite which operated successfully for a long time.

Some time after Byrne's demise in 1999 and apparently during the tenure of Mr Parish that suite became a store room. A sop, in my view, was then installed in the Lower Tier of the Holmesdale derisively called 'Byrne Bar' (closed temporarily yesterday).

Whatever your view on who Palace's greatest player was surely it is disrespectful in the extreme to honour a man, who most people of my era agree was the best, then devalue his memory after his demise.

Mr Parish has ignored all my representations about this injustice.

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

I met Johnny Byrne in the mid 90's in the Clifton Arms pub. I can't remember the game he attended but he mentioned that he was over in the UK from South Africa and had also been a guest at a recent West Ham game. He seemed chuffed that there was a bar named after him in the stadium.

He was a good friend of Dave Harper (ex player for Millwall/Ipswich/Orient) who was the landlord of the Clifton.

Little did I know that a few years later he'd be dead, he appeared in good health although like many of us liked a drink.