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ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 29 Aug 22 1.51pm
Originally posted by monkey I do actually look back at that game quite fondly and have always been proud to say I was there. It was a bit of a nightmare for me as well because I had my leg in plaster, but still strangely enjoyed the day I think we can also be proud of the way the team recovered from that, it was a massive reality check. A few days later we travelled away to a good saints side, dug in and got a point I know mate, it actually was an enjoyable day. Liverpool allocated us a few thousand extra tickets. The most away fans I can remember seeing bar play offs etc. Anyway, we blamed Perry Suckling if you remember, so everyone else got off Scot free. I know he wasn't the best goalie ever, but it really wasn't his fault! But them's the breaks. Red and Blue Army!
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Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 29 Aug 22 1.51pm

Originally posted by monkey

I do actually look back at that game quite fondly and have always been proud to say I was there. It was a bit of a nightmare for me as well because I had my leg in plaster, but still strangely enjoyed the day

I think we can also be proud of the way the team recovered from that, it was a massive reality check. A few days later we travelled away to a good saints side, dug in and got a point

I know mate, it actually was an enjoyable day. Liverpool allocated us a few thousand extra tickets. The most away fans I can remember seeing bar play offs etc.
Anyway, we blamed Perry Suckling if you remember, so everyone else got off Scot free. I know he wasn't the best goalie ever, but it really wasn't his fault! But them's the breaks.

Red and Blue Army!

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monkey Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 29 Aug 22 4.08pm
Originally posted by ASCPFC I know mate, it actually was an enjoyable day. Liverpool allocated us a few thousand extra tickets. The most away fans I can remember seeing bar play offs etc. Anyway, we blamed Perry Suckling if you remember, so everyone else got off Scot free. I know he wasn't the best goalie ever, but it really wasn't his fault! But them's the breaks. I agree, it was one of those days you just feel sorry for the keeper, he was so badly exposed that day. It was a strange game, because it was one of those days where Liverpool seemed to score every chance they had, it wasn’t absolutely one way traffic, or maybe with time and age I’m remembering it wrong Edited by monkey (29 Aug 2022 4.09pm)
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Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 29 Aug 22 4.08pm

Originally posted by ASCPFC

I agree, it was one of those days you just feel sorry for the keeper, he was so badly exposed that day.
It was a strange game, because it was one of those days where Liverpool seemed to score every chance they had, it wasn’t absolutely one way traffic, or maybe with time and age I’m remembering it wrong

Edited by monkey (29 Aug 2022 4.09pm)

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Apollofuzz On the edge of reason 29 Aug 22 5.02pm
Weirdly enough one of my favourite away days which made the 4 - 3 even sweeter I can remember the running joke was when is kick off for the Palace v Livetpool game. Every ten minutes was the reply 😆 Originally posted by ASCPFC I know mate, it actually was an enjoyable day. Liverpool allocated us a few thousand extra tickets. The most away fans I can remember seeing bar play offs etc. Anyway, we blamed Perry Suckling if you remember, so everyone else got off Scot free. I know he wasn't the best goalie ever, but it really wasn't his fault! But them's the breaks. I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat I wear my war time coat in the wind and sleet.
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On the edge of reason 29 Aug 22 5.02pm

Weirdly enough one of my favourite away days which made the 4 - 3 even sweeter

I can remember the running joke was when is kick off for the Palace v Livetpool game. Every ten minutes was the reply 😆

Originally posted by ASCPFC

I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat
I wear my war time coat in the wind and sleet.

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mtp1958 Oswestry 29 Aug 22 5.30pm
Originally posted by monkey I agree, it was one of those days you just feel sorry for the keeper, he was so badly exposed that day. It was a strange game, because it was one of those days where Liverpool seemed to score every chance they had, it wasn’t absolutely one way traffic, or maybe with time and age I’m remembering it wrong Edited by monkey (29 Aug 2022 4.09pm) no your not wrong I thought 14-5 would have been about right , did make a change from running from the ground that day they seemed sorry for us
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Oswestry 29 Aug 22 5.30pm

Originally posted by monkey

Edited by monkey (29 Aug 2022 4.09pm)

no your not wrong I thought 14-5 would have been about right , did make a change from running from the ground that day they seemed sorry for us

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YT Oxford 29 Aug 22 5.52pm
I too look back on the 0-9 trip with fondness. The crazy, naive way the team kept trying to attack...the way the lads and lasses never stopped supporting them...the surreality of the whole expedition. One small snippet. As we came out of Anfield, we passed Steve Staunton (if I recall correctly; it was definitely a Liverpool player who hadn't been picked for the game). He was standing there in his suit and raincoat chatting to someone while trying to stay incongruous. A Palace fan spotted him and shouted to him as he passed him: "Aaaaahhhhhh Staunton! You've got no hope of getting picked after that performance mate!! Ha Ha Haaaaa!" In that instant, that guy summed up the indomitable spirit of the Palace fan, and no doubt of the football fan in general. We've just been stuffed 9-0. You think I'm gonna quietly skulk away in silence and embarrassment? No! I'm gonna use even our humiliation to goad an opponent. Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)
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Oxford 29 Aug 22 5.52pm

I too look back on the 0-9 trip with fondness. The crazy, naive way the team kept trying to attack...the way the lads and lasses never stopped supporting them...the surreality of the whole expedition.

One small snippet. As we came out of Anfield, we passed Steve Staunton (if I recall correctly; it was definitely a Liverpool player who hadn't been picked for the game). He was standing there in his suit and raincoat chatting to someone while trying to stay incongruous. A Palace fan spotted him and shouted to him as he passed him: "Aaaaahhhhhh Staunton! You've got no hope of getting picked after that performance mate!! Ha Ha Haaaaa!"

In that instant, that guy summed up the indomitable spirit of the Palace fan, and no doubt of the football fan in general. We've just been stuffed 9-0. You think I'm gonna quietly skulk away in silence and embarrassment? No! I'm gonna use even our humiliation to goad an opponent.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

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Pete53 Hassocks 30 Aug 22 11.22am
In some ways it's easier to have a laugh if you have lost 9-0 than if your side has just lost a close game 2-3 in the dying seconds. The difference between stoic resignation, and expectation dashed.
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Hassocks 30 Aug 22 11.22am

In some ways it's easier to have a laugh if you have lost 9-0 than if your side has just lost a close game 2-3 in the dying seconds.

The difference between stoic resignation, and expectation dashed.

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Nicholas91 The Democratic Republic of Kent 30 Aug 22 11.46am
Originally posted by Pete53 In some ways it's easier to have a laugh if you have lost 9-0 than if your side has just lost a close game 2-3 in the dying seconds. The difference between stoic resignation, and expectation dashed. "It's the hope that kills you". Agree there Pete! Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!
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The Democratic Republic of Kent 30 Aug 22 11.46am

Originally posted by Pete53

In some ways it's easier to have a laugh if you have lost 9-0 than if your side has just lost a close game 2-3 in the dying seconds.

The difference between stoic resignation, and expectation dashed.

"It's the hope that kills you".

Agree there Pete!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

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Ketteridge Brighton 30 Aug 22 12.18pm
I didn’t even get to celebrate getting the penalty , I had gone to the toilet and heard the cheer and came back to see a police men laughing his head off. I was only 15 and I didn’t get home to 4o’clock never loved my mum as much as I did when she told me I didn’t need to go to school the day after. One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A
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Brighton 30 Aug 22 12.18pm

I didn’t even get to celebrate getting the penalty , I had gone to the toilet and heard the cheer and came back to see a police men laughing his head off.
I was only 15 and I didn’t get home to 4o’clock never loved my mum as much as I did when she told me I didn’t need to go to school the day after.

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A

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uncleneal Croydon 10 Sep 22 10.41am
There is definitely a bit of kudos having gone to the 9-0 and it shuts the mugs up who try to take the piss. That season, we also lost 4-0 to Everton and some scouser said “Hey, they don’t like it up Merseyside do dey”. Always hated scousers!
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Croydon 10 Sep 22 10.41am

There is definitely a bit of kudos having gone to the 9-0 and it shuts the mugs up who try to take the piss.

That season, we also lost 4-0 to Everton and some scouser said “Hey, they don’t like it up Merseyside do dey”. Always hated scousers!

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Teddy Eagle 10 Sep 22 11.04am
Spare a thought for Dundee Harp who beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0 then found out Arbroath had just beaten Bon Accord 36-0 on the same day.
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10 Sep 22 11.04am

Spare a thought for Dundee Harp who beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0 then found out Arbroath had just beaten Bon Accord 36-0 on the same day.

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cryrst The garden of England 10 Sep 22 11.07am
Originally posted by Teddy Eagle Spare a thought for Dundee Harp who beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0 then found out Arbroath had just beaten Bon Accord 36-0 on the same day. I remember Stirling beat Selkirk 20-0 a few years back. It was 5-0 at HT. I can imagine the Selkirk manager saying “ well done lads, I thought it would be at least 10”
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The garden of England 10 Sep 22 11.07am

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Spare a thought for Dundee Harp who beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0 then found out Arbroath had just beaten Bon Accord 36-0 on the same day.

I remember Stirling beat Selkirk 20-0 a few years back. It was 5-0 at HT. I can imagine the Selkirk manager saying “ well done lads, I thought it would be at least 10”

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Teddy Eagle 10 Sep 22 11.18am
Originally posted by cryrst I remember Stirling beat Selkirk 20-0 a few years back. It was 5-0 at HT. I can imagine the Selkirk manager saying “ well done lads, I thought it would be at least 10” When Derby beat Finn Harps 12-0 in the EUFA Cup Dave MacKay, who was their manager, said - In the away leg we will be underestimating the opposition.
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10 Sep 22 11.18am

Originally posted by cryrst

I remember Stirling beat Selkirk 20-0 a few years back. It was 5-0 at HT. I can imagine the Selkirk manager saying “ well done lads, I thought it would be at least 10”

When Derby beat Finn Harps 12-0 in the EUFA Cup Dave MacKay, who was their manager, said - In the away leg we will be underestimating the opposition.

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