Morning all,

I am an Ipswich fan who is writing a blog based on former heroes of my childhood and would like the Crystal Palace opinion on Alan Lee,

For Ipswich he was the definition of workmanlike and carried our front line for multiple seasons.

I have seen that for Palace he has become something of a cult hero for a goal vs Sheffield Wednesday, would 'cult hero' be a fair opinion on him?

Thanks for any help - over the years many old Ipswich heroes of mine have made a home at Palace (Ambrose, Garvan, Kuqi, Counago to name a few!)

Best of luck for the season,

Portman Tales

Alan Lee was bought by Neil Warnock for I believe £650,000.
He was at the club at the same time as Kuqi and Scowcroft who of course both played for Ipswich.

Lee was never a prolific scorer for us but was a hustle and bustle centre forward who relished a physical battle and worked hard.Certainly not the quickest.
Don't think he was a stranger to a yellow card !

Edited by Willo (19 Jul 2019 12.40pm)

Put it all on the line; it felt like he permanantly had a head bandage on such was the rate he’d fly into aerial challenges.

Cult hero is about right; limited player but an absolute mountain of a man who gave his all every game, and a Hero of Hillsborough.

We all dream of a team of Alan Lees.

That song still make me chuckle. He never gave less than 100% & for me that goes a long way, if only some of our current strikers had a 1/4 of his effort!
Hillsborough was a great day out, one of our finest.
We showed the world how to support your team.

He was a decent guitar player to boot. I remember I was dropping off a guitar for repair and there he was trying out a few. We had a little jam.

We let him leave a season too early I remember his last goal when we beat Leicester at home 3 2 in the first match with 2010 as owners always gave his all for us

walking down the holmesdale road to see the palace aces!