I was travelling in South America earlier this year and kept bumping into a bloke who seemed to have a collection of shirts that he was wearing throughout Peru and Chile.

The strangest though was checking out sports shops in Buenos Aires where I found a shop selling a Palace shirt! So excited I explained in my very bad Spanish what a great team they were and how I had to take a photo - which I'll send in when I find it - in amongst the Racing, River Plate, San Lorenzo (also Red and Blue) and Independiente shirts. I think they thought I was nuts and indulged me. They didn't even mention the Falklands!

Sod JJB if you want the real thing, even if it was a couple of seasons out of date, go to Argentina.

I've had my pic taken with Mickey Mouse at Disneyland Paris wearing the 96/97 home kit.(cue "mickey mouse club" comments from every non-palace fan who's seen it) - if I had a scanner that worked I'd send it in.

My shirt always goes on holiday with me and always gets its pic taken at the beach/hotel/interesting landmark.

I also wore it in the home end at the g*ldstone once, and won 4 pints of lager for doing so, but I did wear a fleece over the top of it.

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Sorry to go back to the original topic Logic, but my favourite time of wearing a Palace shirt was when I had arranged a business trip to Liverpool when we were playing at Anfield in the League. My host who was an avid Liverpool fan had got us tickets for the game in a Liverpool section of the ground and couldn't believe his eyes when I turned up in my Palace shirt and scarf. The section was quite close to the Palace fans and during one Palace attack when I was jumping up and down some Palace fans spotted me and chanted "Stevie Coppell's red 'n' blue army" up at me. I of course responded to them and then others joined in until most of the Palace end were chanting "Stevie Coppell's red 'n' blue army" up at me with my lone voice chanting it back at them. Excellent! My host and a good proportion of the people around didn't appear to be very happy and I think things could have gone worse for me had it not been for the fact that we got stuffed (3-0?). Anyway, brilliant feeling, and if you were one of the Palace fans chanting up at me, thanks for the memory!

Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

could well have been one of our players around about that time...

I`ve worn one in the home end at the Goldstone and the Den but under my jacket-I`m not a complete idiot.I was still fearful of discovery and the resultant lynching that would have ensued but won a nice wager although I aged several years in 90 minutes.

The famous Alan Mullery went to Rome to SIGN the Pope.

I've also worn my shirt and scarf on show amongst the home fans at Bristol City, but only in the platinum seating, so no riff-raff. I definately wouldn't have risked it in some sections of the ground.

One place where things got a bit scary, even though I wasn't wearing my palace shirt, was Fratton Park. I was on the terracing in the Pompey end and when Palace scored, I forgot where I was until mid-celebration I realised that about a thousand people were staring at me with quite unfriendly expressions. I quickly relocated, being shoved and gobbed at the whole way, until I got to a bit where they hadn't noticed me. I kept quiet after that, even when the final whistle went to signal a 1-0 win.

Edited by Glad All Over (13 Nov 2002 9:48am)

Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.