This is one of those books where you think it’s a thin premise which can’t possibly be for anyone not following a specific narrow range of interests. How wrong you would be. As with a lot of memoirs it’s following someone’s sheer love and joy of being involved in an endeavour which opens it up …
”It was the best of times it was the worst of times”. When Charles Dickens wrote those words I doubt he was thinking that one day they would probably apply to all Crystal Palace supporters who went to Stockport for this game. There was pain there was joy there was ecstasy there was agony and …
Written after the first run of six consecutive losses that (2000-2001) season and inspired by our (then) manager’s ability to provide non-stop soundbites it first appeared in the ‘One More Point’ fanzine. Rather than go for a career in journalism which seems too much like hard work I went to work for ‘The Sun’. My …
This was written for ‘Palace Echo’ about how we watched the Crystal Palace / West Ham United play-off final in 2004 on the other side of the world. It’s a pub rammed to the rafters, there’s more cockney accents than you can shake a jellied eel at and the majority are there to watch the …
This was written for ‘Eagle Eye’ in 2005 as Palace looked (correctly as it later turned out) to be heading for relegation. The club owner, Simon Jordan, and manager, Iain Dowie, did not get on well with Routledge’s agent, Paul Stretford, who was keen to move him to that graveyard of young English players – …
Written about Palace’s play-off final game against West Ham in 2004, it appeared in the one-off resurrection issue of legendary fanzine ‘Eagle Eye’ in February 2005. Clement Clarke Moore may have provided some inspiration. ‘Twas the night before Cardiff, when all through the club Not a person was stirring, they were all at the pub; …
This was written for the ‘Palace Echo’ fanzine after the play-off final win in 2004. The person most disappointed with the result was the one who did the most to have it shown in Australia. Originally the play-off final wasn’t going to be shown in Australia. This was going to deprive a number of Palace …
Another season and another long train trip for the opening game. It was with the hope that this campaign wouldn’t follow the script of the last which, despite the amazing twist in the tail, was not one you’d want to be involved with every year – for reasons of health if nothing else. Even if earlier trains …
