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The Colonel
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I'm sure that one of their trains turned up late. That Xmas I was bought Brian Moore's football annual and it had a two page account of their day. Other than winning I dont think they enjoyed the day much.i don't think the palace fans enjoyed their big day.
it was the first (and only?) time away fans were put in the fulwell side of the mainstand paddock. people climbed over the fence and got stuck straight into them.
the biggest kicking they got was outside the main stand amongst the parked cars.
for some reason i seem to remember a few of them getting a good hiding near the big roundabout next to the wheatsheaf. i have a vision of them getting pasted on a petrol station forecourt but i can't remember one around there. i didn't usually go that way home so i can't remember why i was even there.
I'm sure that there was some story of a gypsy that Allison had hired to give the team good luck. When they beat Sunderland he denied that the old witch had owt to do with where they ended up and she promptly put a curse on them. They lost in the SF to Southampton.Mind he did the job for Palace. Took all the pressure off his team and put in on himself.
Or maybe it wasn't tactics, just that he was such a big headed bugger he wanted all the attention.
Whatever..it worked.