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dreamwaverider Flag London 30 Aug 22 12.52am Send a Private Message to dreamwaverider Add dreamwaverider as a friend

First game v Brentford early sixties. We won 1-0. Hoping for a repeat tonight! Watched loads of away games through the nineties. Memories of so many cold concrete terraces often uncovered. Freezing cold. Been all round the country to so many different grounds. Rarely go on away days now as I was never a planner. Just went and paid at turnstiles. Favorite game is always my last. Atmosphere at Selhurst just gets better and better. Just love the way the whole ground sings now.

 

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Dubai Eagle Flag 30 Aug 22 7.10am Send a Private Message to Dubai Eagle Add Dubai Eagle as a friend

My dad & Grandad were both Palace supporters - My first game I went along with my older brother, sat on the mound where the AW is now - late 60,s (I was probably about 9) I think we played Middlesbrough, I seem to remember we scored but lost the game, peanut sellers in the ground - warm day, must have been late in the season - I remember my brother talking almost endlessly about Mark Lazarus- in any event it was enough for me to decide that as soon as I was able / old enough I would get a paper round or milk round, pretty much any part time job that would fund my Palace fix -

The next few years I would go when there was a bit of spare cash in the house which wasn't often, at 12 I got a paper round (1972) & the rest as they say is history.

 

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mr. apollo Flag Somewhere in Switzerland 31 Aug 22 1.43pm Send a Private Message to mr. apollo Add mr. apollo as a friend

When I first started going to the Palace in the 60's I was thin, now not so thin. Thick and thin

 



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the silurian Flag The garden of England.(not really) 31 Aug 22 1.54pm Send a Private Message to the silurian Add the silurian as a friend

First match aged 8 in 1962.......stood on earth mound where Holmesdale end is now......ate peanuts from Lou's stall near the gates and had Bovril hot enough to melt your teeth at half time....been going ever since til I moved to France in 2003

 

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Palace 1979 Flag Surrey 05 Sep 22 9.51pm Send a Private Message to Palace 1979 Add Palace 1979 as a friend

My first game was the Burnley home game in 1979. I don't remember much as I was 7 at the time and was amazed by the atmosphere and crowd. Sadly I have never witnessed a crowd of that size since but more recently it's lovely to see the fantastic Selhurst atmosphere returning.

Best and worst games were in the 1989/1990 season against Liverpool. The 9-0 defeat midweek away, having taken another sicky from work to get up there in time was a very humiliating evening, made all the worse by the piss taking when Aldridge came on as sub to take a penalty with his first kick! And I remember Geoff Thomas missing a penalty too. I might be wrong as my memory fades, but I'm sure Eddie McGoldrick played sweeper that night for some weird reason.

However, the Villa Park semi final was the most fantastic match I have been to. The emotions that day were nothing I have ever had before or since. I think partly having witnessed the 9-0 first hand, having Ian Wright missing, and having been 1-0 down at half time, I don't think anyone would have predicted the final result. And to give the scousers a dose of their own medicine was beautiful.

I love going to all Palace matches, so even the 9-0 was never a terrible day as my beloved Palace were playing, although it was hard to watch at times.

The worst period I witnessed at Palace is when that vile man Alan Mullary was in charge. I found it very hard to go to any matches with that moron in charge and the atmosphere was non existant.

 


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Putitout Flag Oxford 05 Sep 22 10.31pm Send a Private Message to Putitout Add Putitout as a friend

It was Christmas 1948 I was five and taken by my uncle, I always remember the gold shirts of Newport county, wasn’t sure for a long time what the score was but now know it was 1-0 to County.
I didn’t let it bother me but we had a habit for losing at the time.I was to young to care.
Whatever I never wanted to support anyone else, and over the years it’s only ever got better.

Edited by Putitout (05 Sep 2022 10.32pm)

 

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Deacon Blues Flag Whangarei/Kerikeri 06 Sep 22 12.16am Send a Private Message to Deacon Blues Add Deacon Blues as a friend

I arrived in UK from New Zealand in mid 1974 and by 1975 was flatting in Streatham, working in Croydon, around the time 3rd Div Palace were on their great Cup run under Malcolm Allison.
Talk at work was nothing but Palace and jeering at the few Hammers fans who were present.
One of my flatmates (a scouse) suggested that, seeing as we were 'local', we take in the coming Palace game against Swindon (or was it Aldershot?). For a novice, it was a wild affair from memory, a 3-3- draw but I was hooked ... and went to most of the home games after that.
I now understood why the blokes at work were always rattling on about Alan Whittle, Dave Swindlehurst, the Hinshelwood Brothers, Jim Cannon, a very young Peter Taylor, Nicky Chatterton etc etc.
I do recall that on one of my last games I went to, I saw a young Kenny Sanson dazzle the opposition with a blinding run from well back in his own half.
Most of all I remember the crowd. A cheerful bunch. None more so than on a freezing cold Tuesday night, total crowd was over 38,000, the Palace mob singing their hearts out as we were drawing 0-0 with Millwall.
I was back in EnZed by late 1976 and been a long distance follower ever since. Thick and thin.

 


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marktillson Flag thetford norfolk 06 Sep 22 5.52am Send a Private Message to marktillson Add marktillson as a friend

51 years,dad took me to first game when I was 5 bless him,always red and blue,now live in Norfolk last 30!years,hopefully get up this season and pass the mantle on to my 12 year old son and yesssssssss he's palace coyp,ps any one nearer the time has 2 spare for a Saturday game please pm me,as has to b Saturday as boy has school,and will come down and stay the Saturday and show boy my roots thank u all coyp,ps haven't come with boy yet cause of financial reasons ,but alot better now,so promised would get him down for a game and see the palace

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Ginger Pubic Wig Flag Wickham de L'Ouest 27 Sep 22 6.53am Send a Private Message to Ginger Pubic Wig Add Ginger Pubic Wig as a friend

All my living memory. First game was a 0 0 draw with Preston in the 70s, about which I remember nothing except the score and a feeling of hope mixed with boredom and disappointment. Must have been Feb. 24, 1979. I'd have been 7. Reckon it could have been a birthday treat, which makes me very happy to think.

 


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Elpis Flag In a pub 03 Oct 22 6.27am Send a Private Message to Elpis Add Elpis as a friend

First game was v Portsmouth at home sometime in the late 60.s ,cant remember much after that, its all just a blur of passion and dissapointment and the odd high .
The best times were no doubt though following the team away from home in my teenage years . 72- 79 and seeing that marvelous side of youngsters grow into a very decent top flight side .

My worst was when I got married and what with mortgage at 15% (you dont know the half of it ) couldnt afford to get to many matches . I did question the sanity of the path I had chosen but 43 years later she is still doing the ironing so maybe it was for the best . I dont think I missed much anyway ,the early 80's were not our best

After then having a season ticket for 30 years I gave it up a couple of years back . Its not the game I love anymore the connection between club and supporter has been cut , its no longer about the passion on a saturday but the bank balance at the end of the month which for me is sad .
I still attend occasionally but its not the same as it was

 

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m/k mick Flag milton keynes 03 Oct 22 2.00pm Send a Private Message to m/k mick Add m/k mick as a friend

1957 but no idea who it was against, although on the day I was born 2/12/1950 we played Walsall at Selhurst, we won, my granddaughter got me an original programme of that game for my 70th, well chuffed, when I took my grandson to his first game made sure we kept ticket and photos for him, he was four,
have a season ticket going back at least 40 years

 

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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 03 Oct 22 2.07pm Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

My first game was Rotherham at home in 1975, my second game was against Hereford and third was Mansfield, it doesn’t get any thinner than that

Edited by monkey (03 Oct 2022 2.09pm)

 

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