After a replay. With the first and second rounds of the League Cup still being over 2 legs back then (we lost to Birmingham in the first round) we'd actually played 25 games by December 1st 1996.
That was one of the three shots at winning the title we blew cause the players were drunk for a fortnight. Still at least the crossbar denied that knobhead Alex Pritchard two goals that night.
Palace very nearly lost 1-0 when their opponents didn't even have a shot on target in the entire game. That would have been hilarious, but the draw keeps Newcastle behind us by 4 points so I'll be happy for the twats.