I'm pretty sure they were both league games 'cos the second one was Southend on a saturday. The first was Reading away the previous week.

Apart from the above Dougie's brace in the last minutes against Wolves in the play-off semi - especially after the "oh Sh*t" feeling of Jamie Smith pulling one back for them . Typical Palace.

I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Two other great ones: the Man Utd 5-0 and the Sheff Utd 5-1 (more or less THE John Hughes game) in the seventies. And another great one, the 2-1 vs. Chelsea just before we were relegated. We hadn't won a London derby in the league in our entire four years in the first division, and we finally did it at our last attempt. Not only that but one of the goals was scored by a young Scotsman making his debut for Palace if memory serves me right. Jim Cannon, who went on to play a few games for us.

Another one (can anybody else remember this?). What was the ONLY game Arsenal lost in their 1970-71 double season? League Cup, at Highbury, 2-1 to Palace. The answer to a quiz question if ever there was one.

Here's another: Coventry 1 Palace 4, October 1994. Not often we had an away score like that on any of our stints in the Premiership and can anyone else remember Ricky Newman's sublime fourth goal. Roof of the netter from about thirty yards. I think Andy Preece scored too, so it must have been a surreal night.

(By the way, I could never understand why they played the 95 Man Utd Cup Semi Final at Villa Park, thus making two sets of supporters travel from London to Birmingham at the same time. Wouldn't it have been easier just to have played it at Highbury?)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Although I was there to see the triumphs of 1969, 1979, 1989,1990, and 1997. It still has to be Dougie's goal at Stockport. That goal turned what would have been the worst moment ever as a Palace supporter into one of the best. The tension on the terrace was unbelievable. Great though the villa park win was (that must be our most famous victory)most Palace fans thought we'd lose and were going to enjoy the day and hopefully give a creditable performance. Relegation at stockport was unthinkable, who knows we may still be in Div 2 now if it wasn't for the hand of hoppy and a lifeline from the Doog.

Please don't put us through that again Palace.

Aki Aki Aki Oi Oi Oi

It has to be away to Wrexham, where we had to win by 2 goals to stand any chance of promotion.

We were 2 up then alowed wrexham 2 score twice, before we scored another 2. Absolute pandemonioum everywhere.

Im gonna go for the stockport match.A miracle happened that day, everything went our way for once. It was an unbelievable day for me.

Both the Southend and Reading games were indeed league games. I think we beat Southend 3-1 in the league cup as well.

Hopkin is the special moment, don't see why everyone can't repeat it

Uhm, My best Palace moment isn't a goal. It's a memory of the 6-1 Southend game in-fact, where we were so attacking, that Nigel Martyn basically hanged around on the half-way line. Ol' Nigel actually did that a lot. Just seeing him do it were great moments as you knew Palace were basically not gonna get beat - a great team.

The most recent memory of a meaningful goal (so everyone new & old knows about) was in our 2-1 lose to Leeds. Sorry to bring up Gray, but his deflected volley while not sweet, was an absolute crazy goal to celebrate - as you were thinking we f***ing equalized, thats what we needed, go f off where the sun don't shine Leeds!

But apart from that yeh there's too many good moments in Palace history to put on a simple little message board like this

Edited by Maximus (09 Aug 2003 2:59am)