‘Crystal Palace’ Archives
How good was Tomas Brolin?
In the early 1990s Per Tomas Brolin was the golden boy of Swedish football. When he played his first match when he was just six years old at Forssåtunet, and often played on teams with older players. In one match he scored 15 goals and was noticed by "Buster", a popular football comics magazine. His first professional match was for Näsvikens in [...]
Wednesday night footy: 24th February
Inter Milan 2 - 1 Chelsea Well, yesterday I said that Inter had no chance (wrong) but that they should go for it early on (dead right). In the end José Mourinho's Inter left Chelsea battered and bruised, but breathing. Inter Milan 2 - Chelsea 1 longer highlights- Watch more Sports Videos at Vodpod. Tottenham 4 - 0 Bolton A [...]
The tragic of the Cup: 13th – 14th February
Fulham 4 - 0 Notts County You don't want to mess with Sven, I'm telling you. Fulham 4 - Notts County 0- Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Crystal Palace 2 - 2 Aston Villa Stilyan Petrov's dodgy late equaliser denied Crystal Palace victory after an enthralling cup-tie at Selhurst Park. Crystal Palace 2 - Aston [...]
The tragic of the Cup: 3rd round 2nd – 3rd January
The 4th Round Draw FA Cup (4th Round Draw)- Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Manchester Utd 0 - 1 Leeds Utd Sir Alex Ferguson has expressed 'shock' at his team's performance after their 1-0 defeat to lowly Leeds, who will travel to White Hart Lane in round four as a reward for beating Manchester United. Manchester [...]
Post-hooligans Carling Cup highlights
Who can stop the boys from White Hart lane? Not the lads from Wigan, that's for sure, although maybe Newcastle might be getting a chance sooner than I thought. Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Manchester City The team that cost 200 million quid needed second half goals from Shaun Wright-Phillips and Carlos Tevez to put them into the next round of the [...]
Newcastlewatch: Away win at Palace
Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Newcastle Well, this is starting to get boring. The whole point of Newcastlewatch is that they play crap, lose, and are consigned to lower league ignomony for years. As it happens, the Toon moved in front inside 90 seconds through Kevin Nolan, Ryan Taylor adding a superb second with a 25-yard curler into the corner of the [...]
Neil Warnock in ‘angry with ref’ shocker
People's favourite Neil Warnock reacted with fury after the ref in charge of Crystal Palace's match at Bristol City 'failed to notice' Palace open the scoring after 34 minutes. In a bizarre situation, Palace striker Freddie Sears clearly rifled home into the bottom corner, with the ball bouncing straight back out of the net after hitting the rear [...]
Steve Coppell at 1000 (part two)
This is the greatest match in football history and Coppell's finest hour. Bear in mind that this is the same season as the 9-0 result and that Palace had lost their two league fixtures against Liverpool by an aggregate 11-0 scoreline. This then, came as something of a surprise (settle down for the best part of an hour to watch these extended [...]
Steve Coppell at 1000 (part one)
Big Steve Coppell has just celebrated 1000 matches as a manager. The Reading FC website has an interview with their legendary manager in which he discusses various parts of his management career: 'I go back to my first season in management at Crystal Palace when we ended up finishing seventh from bottom, that was the highest we had been all [...]
