Don Rogers scoring against Everton on his debut in '72 and then seeing it on MOTD later that night

beating Millwall away in '78 - 3 nil & we could have had 6

Ian Evans having his leg broken by Best

& more recently, Kuqi coming on against Norwich (away) - getting shed loads of grief from the home fans & then scoring the only goal of the game in injury time, followed by his trademark swallow dive

Norman Hunter being sent off for Bristol City at Selhurst Sept '79 and 30,000 people booing and shouting 'you dirty f&^K8$' as loudly as they could as he trudged off.

Big chest and massive boobs

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i remember a player called lawrie craker, playing for watford against us, there was a tackle, he stayed down, and started shouting and pointing at he's leg, the mob on the half way line (we were standing then) started waving at him plus a bit of abuse thrown in, but we soon found out it was serious, and he had in fact broken he's leg, not sure if he ever recovered from it, poor fella.

I recall Steve Kember,during his playing days,when he returned after his spells at Chelsea and Leicester.

We were at home to Notts County and Steve swung a low ball in at goal and it appeared to have gone in,in fact it went under the side netting,but the Ref signalled a goal.
Steve approached the Ref to explain that it went under the side netting,so he changed it for a Goal Kick.
I was in the Arthur Wait,before it was all seater,and could see it clearly wasn't a goal.
A few days later I saw Steve and he said he got a right rollicking off of Venables,as he was captain and should have kept shtoom.

How could he?

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........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................

The 1980/81 season when we had 4 managers. We beat Boro 5-2, Norwich 4-1, United 1-0, Southampton 3-2, had the Clive Allen 'no goal' against Coventry and were relegated.

Not sure what the record for the most Palace players scoring hat-tricks in the same season is but Flanagan got 3 against Southampton and I think Clive Allen got 3 against Boro both before the end of October. The first 3 results that season were 0-3 against Liverpool, 3-4 against Tottenham and the 5-2 against Boro meaning palace had a record of P3 W1 D0 L2 F8 A9

Various defeats against Wimbledon with the 0-5, 0-4 and 0-3 being particularly painful

Michael Hughes (?) knocking out the referee

The Inter Toto cup game against Samsunspoor being delayed because so many people turned up (only Palace really can't cope with an attendance of 11,000)

I remember Mark Dennis 'doing' Gary Lineker in a game aganist Tottenham then getting up and celebrating with the crowd!

The ups and downs of Palace have left me older than my years