someone say something to make it better please

[Sir C]

Not at all. But I certainly identified as an Arsenal supporter at 7. Or a Palace supporter. I forget the chronology.

And if, when you were 7, someone had told you that Crystal Palace had won the league the year before, you'd have thought of it as an event from pre-history. I reckon.

[Burney]

And if, when you were 7, someone had told you that Crystal Palace had won the league the year before, you'd have thought of it as an event from pre-history. I reckon.

Possibly true. Mind you, at that time I would have been more concerned about Vince Hilaire, who at that time I was pretty sure was the greatest footballer in history.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Vince Hilaire!
I remember him earning plenty of plaudits back in the day - a very exciting black pearl
Terry Neill tried to sign him one Transfer Deadline day...but ended up with Peter Nicholas instead

[Burney]

Vince Hilaire!
I remember him earning plenty of plaudits back in the day - a very exciting black pearl
Terry Neill tried to sign him one Transfer Deadline day...but ended up with Peter Nicholas instead

Were there deadline days back then? Did the window slam shut?

[Maravilloso Marvo]

So from this thread we have learnt that Sir C started supporting Arsenal because they were the champions at the time, basically the Man City of this moment in 1971 and that Berni was a Crystal Palace supporter before deciding to switch, presumably for the same reasons as Sir C

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Yep
Always around mid March but, as with FA Cup draws heard on Radio 2, we didn't see any of it

[IUFG]

Lord no. Until I was 25 or so it never even occurred to me that we might win the league one day. That was something other teams did...

It just used to be, you know... nice. Watching Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira playing such remarkably attractive football. It made a chap puff his chest out a bit and feel sort of special, if you will. Reflected glory, how very illogical! Still. It was good fun at the time.

I saw Dennis Bergkamp make a most exquisite pass to Ian Wright at Hillsborough; it made me glad to be alive.

Wrighty missed.

[Burney]

So from this thread we have learnt that Sir C started supporting Arsenal because they were the champions at the time, basically the Man City of this moment in 1971 and that Berni was a Crystal Palace supporter before deciding to switch, presumably for the same reasons as Sir C

To be fair to my young self, I think someone deciding to follow the shítshow that was pre-Graham Arsenal would struggle to be called a gloryhunter

[IUFG]

Possibly true. Mind you, at that time I would have been more concerned about Vince Hilaire, who at that time I was pretty sure was the greatest footballer in history.

Good player. Better kit.

[Burney]

Good player. Better kit.

I have only ever been a full-kit wánker once in my life and it was with that kit. The shirt was just beautiful.

I have no idea why Palace have ever worn any other kit, the lunatics.