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I've only been there twice: the 0-9, and 0-5 in the League Cup SF 2nd leg. So aggregate 0-14 for me.
12th May 1990 28 years ago today... but I remember it like it was yesterday.
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28yrs ago ago..... 7 minutes. 7 bloody minutes
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28 years ago tonight. It was a Thursday as well. Can still recall that pit of the stomach feeling.
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Horrible, horrible evening. Allan Gunn from Brighton, eh?
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14 years ago today. Great memories from a classic Monday night play-off.
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I’m no big believer in fate, but the stars just kept working for us that season.
Tommy Black’s generous penalty with not long left against Walsall AJ misses the penalty but the rebound comes straight back to him to slot home We go to Coventry who have nothing to play for, only needing a point We manage to lose for what seems like the first in months Brian Deane of West Ham scores against Wigan in the dying moments to give us life again The Sunderland home leg - brilliant game, brilliant atmosphere, and we just shave a ding-dong battle Losing the away leg, we need a goal, and Julian Gray gets sent off It is over now, right? Darren Powell, a central defender who hasn’t played a minute for months, comes off the bench to head home It’s also not really noticed that Shipperley is almost certainly fouling the keeper at the time Both teams look finished at extra time, and we manage to win the penalty shootout Gray is now suspended for the final and his replacement Shaun Derry has probably his best game for us in his first spell here Shipperley scores Leigertwood possibly gives away a penalty There’s no real scare from West Ham and that’s it - we’ve done it And I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I liiiiike it, liiiiike here we go, rockin all over the world What a few months they were to be a Palace fan |
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After our amazing run from December, we were actually completely running out of steam at the end of the season and really limped over the line. Thankfully, Pardew sent his West Ham team out thinking they just had to turn up to win in the final.
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We were watching it at a rammed Alma in Crystal Palace. Think there were a few broken limbs at the end as shit-faced fans fell off tables. Great night
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That was a great time. Dowie was a real hero for that play-off winning run.
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Think we lost at home to Crewe in December having just sold Mullins (who was one of our best players) to West Ham thinking what a slog the remainder of the season was going to be. The turnaround in January was crazy, scoring goals for fun and winning 5 in a row. It was Easter Weekend that it felt like it would be our year. We beat Cardiff away on the Easter Saturday, and then we narrowly beat West Ham 3 days later on the Easter Monday. As cpfc4evandeva said in an earlier post it almost felt like it was meant to be. Even when we were two down at Coventry, I was still confident we'd make the play offs, really good memories. We met some Hammers fans at a service station on route to Cardiff in a limo drinking champagne and smoking cigars (this must have been 10am) and their arrogance was something else. The iconic image from their defeat
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Yep, they had those, whilst we had the 'one more round' ones. I know Dowie's gimicky approach came unstuck in the end, but I think the different slogans showed the difference on the day. They thought they should go up by right; we knew we had to earn it.
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