The professional club did recognise its earlier links with the amateur club and didn't suggest they were a separate club.

In its first handbook in 1906, recalling its past amateur history, the professional club said 'The Crystal Palace Football Team have supplied three internationals, but it occurred in the years 1873 and 1876. In the former year A Morton was included in the international between England and Scotland, and in 1876 A.H. Savage and C.E. Smith represented the old country against Scotland.'

The handbook just refers to the Crystal Palace Football Team, i.e. the amateur and professional sides were both the 'Crystal Palace Football Team', the only difference being that one was amateur and one was professional.

Edited by Phil O'Sophical (20 Dec 2018 7.35pm)

The crowd is outstanding, and especially with the penalty after 44 minutes it was clear when we came out after half-time the welcome would be pretty loud and not too friendly. Crystal Palace wanted to strike back, so that was all clear. This is a wonderful place to play football - Jurgen Klopp

And there are plenty in the world of football that are equally convinced that we are a franchise that started in 2010. To try and claim an alternative history, that has a massive disconnect in it, would make us look like the most deluded football club in the known universe and, whatever his faults, Parish would never be stupid enough to try to rewrite history. Even if he was, the FA would never, quite rightly, accept it. It's just wishful thinking from cloud cuckoo land; let's concentrate on our longest stay in the PL shall we?

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

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How can you say its not the same club??? they are both linked to the Crystal Palace company, were founded at the exhibition palace, played inside the grounds etc. Ok so maybe we can never 100% prove a link, as you said everyone can argue either way, but i would say its 70/30 in favour of the clubs being linked in some way and its definitely worth the Football League or whoever looking at the evidence

5 pages and no one has even mentioned our very own Ian king. Palace Historian. He compiled "Crystal Palace the Complete Record". Been out for years and was sold in the club shop at one time.

Explains all about the other Crystal Palaces, there have actually been Four, including us. Crystal Palace (1861), first fixture was a 1-0 loss to Forest FC and then a break. The second Crystal Palace was the one that borrowed the Aston Villa Claret and blue shirts and was championed by the then Aston Villa chairman, William McGregor, who was known as the father of the football league. He was patron of the club. Then another break. Then in 1883, we see the emergence of The mighty "Crystal Palace Rovers", another incarnation, set up by another group, then a break until 1904 when our club was formed and took the name of the area, as the previous clubs did.

I recommend anyone who doesn't know the club's history to read it. It has details of every fixture our club has played and who scored the goals, hence the title, the Complete Record.

There is also another Palace book with every known newspaper report about Palace from the Historic Newspaper Archive. First entry, The Daily Mirror, January 14th 1907.The headline Read, "Glorious Win for Crystal Palace". We beat Newcastle, at theirs, in the F.A. Cup 1st round, after having knocked them out in the previous two seasons in the same round. Newcastle were unbeaten that season, so it was a bit of a giant killing.

That book is called, "Crystal Palace, A History from 1907".

Both books should still be available...

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Stan Laurel

Totally incorrect!! the players were not part time glaziers, they were businessman who participated in sport, some were already footballers, and it was the Crystal Palace company that formed the team from this. If you actually read Peter Manning's book, then you would know this. Unfortunately, your account is what has been inaccurately peddled for years, that these players were groundworkers, glaziers, bin men!!! you name it, which is why the assumption has been taken, without any previous research that the two clubs are separate. But there is a very plausible link which Peter has gone to great pains to research and produce the facts, maybe if you read his book you might come to a different conclusion

If Liverpool could make such a claim do you think they would be worried about what people might think? You’d never hear the last of it.