Guntri,

PM message me your site address and i will send in the magazine with all the pictures as my scanning did not work very well!

GT

Eagles S*** on Seagulls, Eagles S*** on Seagulls,
La La La La,!
La La La La!

I was 15 at the time. I stood on the Holmesdale under the floodlight that used to be at the top of the hill. Most vivid memory is when we scored the second goal as someone to our left uncorked a bottle of champagne and the cork landed on my dad's nose cutting him. At the end I can remember the surge onto the pitch but we were so far back we had no chance and could only watch the celebrations in the old stand from afar. I still have the flag I waved that night and after the game my dad and I went to celebrate in the Rosecroft in Orpington - which was full of jealous Addicts from the Valley ! Still I managed to get on the pitch when we knocked Swindon out of the play offs some years later - and still treasure the video as a number of us from Orpington go right across the middle of the screen.

Edited by croftonglazier (02 Jan 2003 1:23pm)

Reading these sends a shiver down my spine, what a fantastic night i must of been.

I've heard stories from my dad that before the pitch invasion, my dad said to the Old Bill, that your not stopping us running onto the pitch, and the copper said that i know, cos i'll be joing you. LOL.

keep up the memories you lot, like to here more.

I remember the day well, I still have my program and ticket stub!. I was 10 years old, and as my dad was a cabbie down at Crystal Cars in Norbury and used to pick up a few of the players, we managed to get a couple of tickets off of Peter Nicholas. We were in the seats opposite the Waite Stand, and I can remember a bloke sitting next to us who said he'd come down from Luton after getting a last minute ticket.
Looking at the Holmesdale End that night you couldn't have got a fag paper in between the crowd it was so packed. Sadly I don't remember either of the goals, but I have since read that Jim Cannons' goal was one of the best goals never captured on tape.
Five minutes before the end the whole ground was singing "when the whites go marching in", and believe me at that moment, with the best part of fifty three thousand singing and supporting my beloved palace, i was in awe.
I then remember everyone piling onto the pitch, and a great banner being held up saying "Move Over Liverpool, Here Come Palace!", there were flares (both the pyrotechnic ones, and the trousers!!) and fireworks.
I can still remember going home and seeing Sandy Gall on News at Ten showing the heaving pitch.
There is a photo in the "We all follow the Palace" book that shows the pitch mobbed by fans with the pitch not visible and the stands STILL looked packed.
I reckon that with 53000 people there, just one may have had a cine camera, and relives that moment whenever they please. If you are out there, please share it with us!!

Without doubt my greatest day as a Palace fan,yes even above the cup final.Win and we go up as champs,draw and we go up as runners-up and lose and we stay down,52,000 people inside and another 6,000 locked out,you can just Imagine what the atmosphere was like.
I was only 14 at the time and was standing In the Arthur Waite enclosure,I don't think my feet were touching the ground for most of the game as It was so packed,The holmesdale from the view I had was just a sea of heads.
Atmospheres like that will never ever be repeated Inside football grounds because of all-seater stadiums and even If you are lucky enough to go to a game where there's terracing they restrict the attendance.
When the first goal went In I think the noise would have been heard on the moon.
What a night,It's going to take something pretty special to better It that's for sure,I just don't think It's ever going to happen.
Great memorys!!

Edited by monkey (02 Jan 2003 3:56pm)

i WISH i was born for that!