Redblue eagle is right. We were winning 1-0 after about 13 minutes when the trouble stared. I was sitting in the far corner of the main stand and could see it building up for about 5 minutes before it all started. The police horses didn't turn up for about 10 minutes, and when the 4 of them turned up, eveyone in the main stand stood up and started clapping them. I'm not sure where they had been, as the police always used to have 2 police horses in the corner between the main stand and the Whitehorse Lane stand.

I remember reading in the Advertiser that some Birmingham City 'supporters' went to the Crystal Palace sports centre and not Selhurst Park.

If I remember rightly the Birmingham City manager, Dave Mackay I think, came out onto the pitch to appeal to them to behave. I think Manchester City were playing Hull away, and we had to win 5-0 and they had to lose to go up. When they scored to make it 1-1, Selhurst Park went really quiet

3-2 was a boxing day game in the eighties!
3-1 was a bank holiday when stan cummins scored and that went off outside.

GT

Eagles S*** on Seagulls, Eagles S*** on Seagulls,
La La La La,!
La La La La!

I remember giving some of them a lift from the NSC and they were good fun but in the ground it was nasty. I was in the Arthur Waite nearest the Holmesdale standing below the seats with Birmingham in. There wasn't that many of them in the seats but i looked behind to see five or six of them walk down the empty rows, a row each, towards the Palace fans and fighting ensued. It was handbags really but seemed to go a while and the atmosphere turned nasty. Palace fans started drifting out of that enclosure, i think there were 3 in those days and suddenly it seemed there was plenty of space around us. Their mass of fans all tried to spill on the pitch and our enclosure started filling with Birmingham. We hung around for a bit as my mate hated running from anything but i was kinda imploring him to leave gracefully and shortly after it became obvious we had to go or we'd be eaten for breakfast. Hundreds of Birmingham spilled on the pitch, many hurt by the crush to get on. A few Palace took them on the fringes but they ran along the pitch towards the mass of Palace singers which was Whitehorse side of the centre of the stand. TV pictures captured that standoff which involved one Palace fan being held by the hair on one side of the barrier as punches rained in. They didn't come over the barrier and no Palace fans particulrly wanted to take them on. Horses eventually arrived and they all sprinted back. I'm not so sure about the game, we went 4-0 up and needed to win by 5 but the other result didn't go our way which i had thought was already promoted Millwall needing to at least draw at home to Blackburn or someone but they lost 1-3 so despite winning 5-1 it was to no avail or was that another season? Anyway very colourful they were and they they got ten out of ten for the costumes. It was their relegation party and they had it at ours, sadly we took a bit of a hammering but you don't get too many points for being a thick as two short planks, dodgy sounding Midlands retrobate so maybe they need them.

I'm sure Palace were already 4 up when the trouble started with City 1 down at Bradford. When Palace came back out they knew City were then 1-1 and took there feet off the gas. I think so anyway, but might be wrong.

"Friend first, Boss second..Probably chilled out entertainer third" - David Brent 2002.

i thought that was one of the biffs you started..

allegedly

Edited by big fat london boy (25 Sep 2004 5:13pm)

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