Going increasingly off-topic, but I couldn't resist looking up the games around that period (in Tim Carder's book). The crowd at Palace that night was....2,207!!
WBA/Palce and us were in a FMC round-robin group and I suspect WBA had already qualified so the game was irrelevant to the...
We stopped Millwall taking the all-time unbeaten home record that day, something like 50 games. Think it was (may well still be) held by Forest. The natives were not happy! Your memory slipped up in one respect - it was a saturday afternoon game (I've just looked it up to confirm, saturday 14th...