But now WE spend millions on players as well, the early 90’s team was put together on a shoe string, made up of ex-lower league and non-league players. Still for a much better achievement, but I suppose this current story is not yet over, so who knows?

I agree that this will be remembered as our golden period, but it's nothing remotely like the Team of the Eighties. For many years, that team defined our broader public image. Now, for the first time, that's no longer the case and nor should it be.

The Team of the Eighties lasted precisely one year at the top level (well, we were relegated after two seasons but once Kenny left the second season was no longer really "that" team. Its reputation was built in Divisions Two and Three (not the top flight), and the whole thing really only lasted four years. In contrast, this side while now at its best yet is still improving and it's the result of ten years (not four) of steady progress, identity-building, and momentum shifting. It's nothing like the Team of the Eighties which was, in contrast, a flash in the pan.

Compare Wilf, who's given us a decade of leadership and brilliance with his equivalent from the 80s, Vince Hilaire, who really had no more than a year of genuine sustained, really top-flight success. There's no comparison between the two. Compare Billy Gilbert, whose reputation exceeded what he ever really achieved in his career, with Dann or Delaney (let alone Guehi or Andersson), both of whom were top-level players who kept us up for half a decade. Compare FFS Murray and his innumerable PL goals with Swindly, who we lionise but never really matured into a top-division, year in-year out goalscorer. There's no comparison.

The Team of the Eighties is largely a myth in the minds of those who weren't there, fostered by the happy memories of those of us who were. This Palace team, and its achievments, are real.

Without the likes of Hilaire and Cannon, Palace would have undoubtedly gone into the third tier, which in mind comparable to players who that kept Palace up in the premier in the last decade

You need to dust up on your history. Palace DID go down to the third tier with Cannon in the side and were in the third tier when Hilaire started out with the club. Cannon scored on his debut (I was there) in our final home First Division match (vs. Chelsea), was thus in the side that went down to Division Two and that side was then immediately relegated again to Division Three. (Somehow, I can't see that happening with Marc Guehi.)

I like to think that the next ten years will be seen as our golden period! But Steve Parish and Dougie certainly deserve great credit for sustaining our league status for the past ten years...