attila
1997 Club
Last night's event at the Theatre Royal was brilliant, and would have been precisely the right time to bring out the big RIP Goldstone banner painted for April 26, 1997 (featured in my avatar and in many media pics on the day) and afterwards stored in our attic after the game in hope and anticipation of days like these and a place in the museum 
But about 11 years ago it was literally eaten by a huge reddish/pink fungus (actually a sort of vaguely Palace home strip colour) and obliterated. Attic dry, nothing else affected. I wasn't aware that there was a type of fungus that fed on plastic, and it was virulent: the reason I noticed was that the top of the box had been split open by this thing bursting through it! I've always wondered how that could happen: surely bacteria only feed on animal/vegetable matter, not synthetic substances? No-one I've talked to had the faintest idea. Any biologists out there? (Sorry, no pics, didn't occur to me at the time)
But about 11 years ago it was literally eaten by a huge reddish/pink fungus (actually a sort of vaguely Palace home strip colour) and obliterated. Attic dry, nothing else affected. I wasn't aware that there was a type of fungus that fed on plastic, and it was virulent: the reason I noticed was that the top of the box had been split open by this thing bursting through it! I've always wondered how that could happen: surely bacteria only feed on animal/vegetable matter, not synthetic substances? No-one I've talked to had the faintest idea. Any biologists out there? (Sorry, no pics, didn't occur to me at the time)
