Am starting a new thread rather than take someone else's off on a tagent.

Does anyone remember palace getting the benefit of a bizarre last minute own goal years ago. It was whitehorse lane end, and one opponent went to boot the ball upfield only to clatter it against his teammate, sending the ball arching up into the top corner. Complete freak of a goal.

Might have been Trevor Francis era. Not sure. I also have a memory that the opponent in question had to borrow our away kit that day, though I might be mixing up memories.

Anyone? Did I dream it all?!

Grimsby came to Palace but their kit man and kit were held up in traffic miles away. So Palace let them use the reserve kit, which was not washed and was ill-fitting. But it didn't stop Grimsby playing well and winning with ex-Chelsea player Mike Brolly running the show. No own goal though, from what I remember. In fact the whole game is a bit misty water all these years. I actually heard some ex-players talking on the radio about this game. Very wet day, very low crowd

I remember the Garry Sprake own goal from johnny Sewell lob but that was in the homesdale

Grimsby wearing our kit, 15th Jan 1977.

We won 2-1.

Attachment: CP v Grimsby 1976-7.jpg (285.74Kb)

Zaha, Williams, Murray, Ambrose, Scannell.

A 5-man forward line who scored 3 goals in 10 minutes on 27th September 2011 at .......................

I was in the Arthur and level with the incident. It was a young player called Evans who was closest to the 2 Brum players and wheeled away to celebrate as if it was his goal.
I remember Furlong collapsing in disbelief in centre circle and a few of our players running over and goading him as he'd cheated to win them a penalty earlier that had caused bad blood between both teams.

Edited by eritheagle (01 Aug 2017 12.46am)