We played some excellent, and quite direct, football throughout 93 94 and only had one real dodgy spell at the start of the New Year. The back four was much the same as during the previous relegation season but Southgate, , Osborne, Rodger and Bowry really played well throughout the season. John Salako made a welcome return from his injury but the real star to me was Chris Armstrong. What a season he had and what a player he should have become. He scored some superb goals. Pace, two footted and good in the air. Ultimately a wasted talent.
93 94 was a great season and we should never have been relegated the following season. The building work on the ground probably limited Uncle Ron's ambition to loosen the purse strings and his prickly relationship with Smith didn't help either

Fair enough and ,to further explain Brauny, I'm not as narrow minded as that and in actual fact before I belittle a Man City fan I would actually ascertain just how genuine a fan any Man City fan is before being judgemental and here's why:

I grew up in a small town, Carlow, and I always remember there was this one guy who I didn't know but was probably 2-3 years older than me and I always saw him nearly living in a Man City jersey from as long ago as I can recall !

Yrs later when City got their rich backers and their improvement the first thing I thought was I'm delighted for that guy from Carlow who supported them in their worst of times in a town basically dominated by utter glory hunting only Man U fans

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Smith was lucky to have inherited Sir Steve's team that should have never been relegated on 49 points. The only signing I can remember was Damien Matthew, who didn't really shine... But then Smith pulled off a master stroke in getting Paul Stewart and putting him up front. He held up the ball SO well and added a whole new dimension, even if he wasn't prolific himself.

One of my biggest memories is that Ayrton Senna's tragic death stole our headlines of winning the championship. Seem to remember that before that, a Millwall result sealed our promotion without us actually playing?

Maybe this season is overlooked these days due to Smith's utter incompetence in his second spell, when he inherited a poor team that Sir Steve had got the very best out of - the opposite to Smith's first time!

George Courtney, the World Cup referee, everyone is looking at him. When will he blow....?

Alan Smith? Wasn't he the leader of the Labour Party who previously played for Leeds?

It was a great season - I went to every match, home and away, and we won the league easily.

Too many great memories, one of the best was standing on the terrace at Stoke City after a 2-0 win, singing songs whilst waiting for the Police to disperse the locals, and hearing all the other results had gone our way.

The worst was walking out at Middlesbrough after winning the league, onto the coach and waiting to hear about us on the Sports news, only to hear the tragic news about Senna and nothing else. Talk about high to low.

I suspect that this season is too unlike Palace to feature in many memories, as the team just went out and did what it had to. Most of the best stuff happened away from home as well, at a time when all you'd get on TV was the goals on ITV at 1am and nothing else. It all seemed quite routine, winning most weeks and dominating the league. There was no defining 'cup final' moment.

In fact, some of my strongest memories from the season were other bad ones - 3-0 loss at Millwall, losing at Wolves two weeks running, a dire 1-0 evening defeat at Bolton in the snow with about 70 Palace fans in attendance, and exactly the same at Sunderland (1-0, evening, snow!), where our coach driver got there too late for everyone to get in on time and then got stopped for speeding on the way home, getting back to Selhurst just before 5am.