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palace64 Flag bromley 14 Jul 11 2.23pm Send a Private Message to palace64 Add palace64 as a friend

Quote Kermit8 at 13 Jul 2011 6.13pm

Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 06 Jul 2011 11.09am

We're all nuts following Palace for so long!
Anyone recall Chris wright with the St bernard dog at the top of the Holmesdale amd other parts of ground?


That's a blast from the past - Palace Action group or summat wasn't he the leader of? Power struggling with Ron Noades in '81. He was on Tv news and everything.
Is he still alive?


Turned up at the FA cup final in a red & blue stripped suit

 

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jcreedy Flag 14 Jul 11 2.51pm Send a Private Message to jcreedy Add jcreedy as a friend

Quote Roonsterocker at 13 Jul 2011 6.06pm

Don't forget "tango man"!! Painted head to foot in orange. Streaked. Across selhurst after Houghtons goal!!..v clownntown in playoffs...then drove up to wembley in a tank!!..appeared in several national newspapers..what a character!!


He was a West Ham fan I think.

 


It was my dream to play for Palace and to make my debut. I've always played for the club so if I'm playing here, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

- John Bostock (Nov 2007)

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jcreedy Flag 14 Jul 11 2.53pm Send a Private Message to jcreedy Add jcreedy as a friend

Quote jcreedy at 14 Jul 2011 2.51pm

Quote Roonsterocker at 13 Jul 2011 6.06pm

Don't forget "tango man"!! Painted head to foot in orange. Streaked. Across selhurst after Houghtons goal!!..v clownntown in playoffs...then drove up to wembley in a tank!!..appeared in several national newspapers..what a character!!


He was a West Ham fan I think.

Or maybe a SWFC fan. This is him yeah?
[Link]

 


It was my dream to play for Palace and to make my debut. I've always played for the club so if I'm playing here, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

- John Bostock (Nov 2007)

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jcreedy Flag 14 Jul 11 2.58pm Send a Private Message to jcreedy Add jcreedy as a friend

Quote jcreedy at 14 Jul 2011 2.53pm

Quote jcreedy at 14 Jul 2011 2.51pm

Quote Roonsterocker at 13 Jul 2011 6.06pm

Don't forget "tango man"!! Painted head to foot in orange. Streaked. Across selhurst after Houghtons goal!!..v clownntown in playoffs...then drove up to wembley in a tank!!..appeared in several national newspapers..what a character!!


He was a West Ham fan I think.

Or maybe a SWFC fan. This is him yeah?
[Link]


Ignore all this. Different guy. Taxi for Creedy.

 


It was my dream to play for Palace and to make my debut. I've always played for the club so if I'm playing here, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

- John Bostock (Nov 2007)

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 14 Jul 11 3.02pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Quote jcreedy at 14 Jul 2011 2.58pm

Quote jcreedy at 14 Jul 2011 2.53pm

Quote jcreedy at 14 Jul 2011 2.51pm

Quote Roonsterocker at 13 Jul 2011 6.06pm

Don't forget "tango man"!! Painted head to foot in orange. Streaked. Across selhurst after Houghtons goal!!..v clownntown in playoffs...then drove up to wembley in a tank!!..appeared in several national newspapers..what a character!!


He was a West Ham fan I think.

Or maybe a SWFC fan. This is him yeah?
[Link]


Ignore all this. Different guy. Taxi for Creedy.


The guy that drove the tank to Wembley is definitely a Palace fan.

 


COYP

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Lewisham Eagle Flag Lewisham 14 Jul 11 3.05pm Send a Private Message to Lewisham Eagle Add Lewisham Eagle as a friend

John "Statto" McBride who used to sit near me at Selhurst. Was a great man!

 

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Jamesey Flag Wandsworth 14 Jul 11 3.20pm Send a Private Message to Jamesey Add Jamesey as a friend

There used to be a father and son near where I still sit in the Main Stand who wore identical deerstalker hats and fawn macs whatever the weather. The son was obviously not quite all there which accounts for the fact that he was obviously dressed in the father's image even though he was in his 20s and later his 30s.

We called them "The pear eaters" because in autumn they would eat highly unappetising-looking unripe pears from brown paper bags.

They never spoke to anyone despite our attempts to engage them in conversation and one day in the early '90s they didn't turn up any more. We assumed the dad had died and the son couldn't really make it on his own.

But they were hilarious and totally oblivious of the non-malicious amusement they provided.

 


Nothing is fool-proof - fools are too ingenious

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Bubbs Flag Edinburgh 14 Jul 11 6.05pm Send a Private Message to Bubbs Add Bubbs as a friend

Great image Jamsey.

Ever since i started going to games as a 5 year old, it was as much the entertainment on the the terraces as on the pitch that enthralled me. Football - and lower league football in particular - is great for attracting real eccentrics.

Does anyone remember Donald Barratt? Ran on the pitch from the Arthur Waite and confronted the ref about a decision he'd made. I think it was against Wolves in '85 and we drew 0-0. It made most of the back pages and was pretty big news at the time.

Think Donald was banned for life at Selhurst but definitely saw him there regularly in the late 80's; infact during the Birmingham riot as the Brum fans scaled the Arthur barriers and chaos reigned, i recall him running past me and fist clenched ordering me to 'come on and get stuck in'.

 


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MPE Flag Maidstone 14 Jul 11 6.37pm Send a Private Message to MPE Add MPE as a friend

in the early 80's standing in the white horse end, there used to be an elderly genteleman, who sporadically shouted out "Bring back Johny Byrnes"
of course being a kid, i never new who he was, and many a time my dad had to explain.. but to be fair to that bloke, he taught me who Johnny Byrnes was, because if i ever hear his name mentioned, i just shout out "bring back Johnny Byrnes"

 


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starks park Flag 15 Jul 11 8.33pm Send a Private Message to starks park Add starks park as a friend

Back in the late 70's there was a bloke who travelled to loads of away matches with Palace but always wore his Norwich scarf and sometimes shirt, always thought this strange.

 

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elbarno Flag Abu Dhabi 17 Jul 11 5.28pm Send a Private Message to elbarno Add elbarno as a friend

Anybody remember a bloke called Geoff who used to stand on the holmesdale always had a jeanjacket on normally pissed carried a bag with a banjo in would end up playing it after the game ,saw him at the Epsom derby busking

 

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The Sash Flag Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 18 Jul 11 9.45am Send a Private Message to The Sash Add The Sash as a friend

Quote MPE at 14 Jul 2011 6.37pm

in the early 80's standing in the white horse end, there used to be an elderly genteleman, who sporadically shouted out "Bring back Johny Byrnes"
of course being a kid, i never new who he was, and many a time my dad had to explain.. but to be fair to that bloke, he taught me who Johnny Byrnes was, because if i ever hear his name mentioned, i just shout out "bring back Johnny Byrnes"

I remember a bloke shouting 'Bring Back the Budgie' in the AW around the same time...


 


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