el punal
Well-known member
The monkey is well and truly off my back! At last, I've seen my first win over Palace since that wonderful Goldstone night in Feb.1976 when we won 2-0 in front of 33,000.
Since then I've watched many Albion/Palace encounters including the infamous FA Cup games 1976 (Challis of Palace), the battles in and around Selhurst and the Goldstone in the 70s and 80s, the match when Gerry Ryan had his career ended by Henry Hughton's horror tackle, all of them either draws or defeats.
So now we come to last season, a beautiful sunny late summer's evening and as you all know we got tonked, cue massive depression.
Fast forward to Sunday morning, cold, wet, miserable and on the back of 3 poor away performances and with Palace flying, I thought what chance have we got.
Oh me of little faith! The boys did their stuff and my life changed at 12.43, got even better at 12.46 and by 13.08 I swear I was not on this planet!
At last, 37 years on I've seen the Albion beat the muppets. So a big THANK YOU to Gus, Leo, Spanish Dave, the rest of the team, St.Patrick, Guinness, the fans and everyone else that I have'nt mentioned - what a game, what a win, what a day!
Since then I've watched many Albion/Palace encounters including the infamous FA Cup games 1976 (Challis of Palace), the battles in and around Selhurst and the Goldstone in the 70s and 80s, the match when Gerry Ryan had his career ended by Henry Hughton's horror tackle, all of them either draws or defeats.
So now we come to last season, a beautiful sunny late summer's evening and as you all know we got tonked, cue massive depression.
Fast forward to Sunday morning, cold, wet, miserable and on the back of 3 poor away performances and with Palace flying, I thought what chance have we got.
Oh me of little faith! The boys did their stuff and my life changed at 12.43, got even better at 12.46 and by 13.08 I swear I was not on this planet!
At last, 37 years on I've seen the Albion beat the muppets. So a big THANK YOU to Gus, Leo, Spanish Dave, the rest of the team, St.Patrick, Guinness, the fans and everyone else that I have'nt mentioned - what a game, what a win, what a day!
