Did you see any of these superstars play - bit before my time.

Didn't it use to be the the vicar?

One more point

His son Ian Woan is Assistant Manager at Burnley.
I remember his with a terrific left-foot and was great at free kicks over a wall in the mould of Stuart Pearce.

Petchey and Choules would still put in a performance today. They played for peanuts and I was really proud of their style of play because it was entertaining. How can we be proud of football that bores you to death knowing that these guys are earning more in a year than the average guy/girl would earn in a lifetime!
Roy, you remember these players of the fifties and sixties. I was really proud of them when they only lost 4-3 to a full strength Real Madrid, what a team, what a performance!

I have a faint memory of Petchey playing for us in the 60s but I don't recall Choules.

I'm surprised at that, Mr W. I've always thought you were about my vintage; but, that not being the case, I'd better say no more.

Len Choules was an ever-present at centre half for years - till around 1960, I think. I have memories - both good and bad - of a particular home match against Carlisle in 1959. I belonged to a syndicate which bought some tickets at every home game for the draw for the match ball, and at half time when the winning number was announced, we found that we'd won. The bad news that day was that with Palace having been 0-1 down for most of the game, Len put the result beyond doubt with a fantastic own goal at the Whitehorse end, his back pass from about 30 yards clearing the goalkeeper's head (probably Vic Rouse) by about 5 yards. For years afterwards we played with that ball - always known as the Choules ball - in Brockwell Park.