With so much time on my hands, my mind has been wandering all over the place, and the memory of a very strange incident floated into my mind. A home match against Wolves, about 20 years ago at a guess. An evening match, I think - or at least the lights were on. Wolves had a corner, where the teams come out. In a pre-arranged move the Wolves player passed the ball a couple of yards to a colleague, who tapped it over the line for a goal kick. Cue for loads of applause from the home fans for a very sporting gesture. But I just can't remember what led up to this incident. Any offers?

Think I vaguely remember that incident. One would imagine the the ball had clearly gone out of play from a wolves player but the ref had given a corner and wasn’t going to change his decision.

Also remember another game against wolves probably in the 70’s when a Palace player had a shot into the side netting at the Holmesdale end, the ref gave a goal, the Wolves players naturally went ballistic, after a few chaotic moments the ref asked Steve Kember if it was a goal to which Kember said it wasn’t. Think Kember got some sportsman of the month award or something similar.

It was against Forest actually. Regards, Statto

Old, Ungifted and White

Can you remember what year it was?, and yes about keeper.

Is that a keyboard error? Speroni and Kolinko weren't born in 1971.

Another question. In trying to work out when this incident took place I scanned through our results against Wolves, and I see that in 1996/97 we played four league matches against them: on 23rd November, 15th February, 10th May and 14th May. What was that all about?

Doh! I knew there would be a good explanation. I wonder whether the same will apply to my question about the four league games against Wolves.