I know this is a long thread, BUT, it has been mentioned many times, and spoken by your club captain (see youtube video I posted some pages back) that the mess was created some hours earlier. Not at the time the team arrived. Sigh.
I doubt you'll get through to him. Seemingly being delayed on a coach (allegedly) caused by a plot to upset the Palace team has time-travelling abilities, and was able to make the coach driver unwell a good 5 hours BEFORE.
There were lots of people who were aware of what turned out to be the truth - myself included. But, if I recall correctly there was a certain degree of concern over speculating on this subject at the time, so people were (perhaps overly) careful about how much the shared (particularly as they...
I remember at the time being intensely embarrassed because someone in the club had supposedly done this out of spite. Palace fans I know were suggesting it was Charlie Oatway that was responsible, and apparently words were written on the wall in excrement. The rumour mill went into overdrive...