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I believe she said he would do nothing for 89 minutes and then pop up in the box unexpectedly to deliver a great finish.

Yup, we were also being bankrolled by Keith Wickenden, who was quite wealthy, but he was killed in a helicopter accident (I think). Bamber talked the talk in relation to finance, but suspect he was in hock to the banks to quite a degree. From then on it was a slippery slope.

Absolutely. It set up the club for the financial struggles a few years later when we were having our transfer policy dictated by Barclays, such as selling Dean Saunders for £60,000, and he went to Liverpool

I'll do some ferreting around about his domestic situation. We were certainly big payers in those days. I was talking to Mickey Thomas about why he signed for us from Everton and by all accounts we offered him a lot more dosh.

Players were not on big money in those days. The season we were relegated from the top division Steve Foster and Mike Robinson were the highest paid players in the country on £1,400 a week. Ryan would have been on far less than that. He was divorced and his wife took him to the cleaners I heard...

My brother in law in Dublin knows him. Says he's not in a good way.

Sad to say that Gerry Ryan, who featured in some of those games against Palace in that era, has had a stroke and is now living with his mum in Dublin, having lost everything.