FAO Eric

[splott parker]

Need help on a bit of City history mate. Bit of a story, I’ve got a young lad working for me and he loves me giving him renditions of old City Grange End songs. (God knows why:hehe:), anyway one is from years ago, ‘Ha Ha Ha, Hee, Hee, Hee Palace missed a penalty’ (it was still penalty then, not pelanty). The game was Boxing Day 1966, it did backfire on us singing that though as we got beat 2-1 and then lost at Selhurst Park the very next day. The young lad keeps asking me ‘C’mon then who missed the Palace penalty?’. Gareth Williams scored our goal but I can’t find the name of the Palace penalty misser anywhere................Please don’t ruin things though and tell me that they never had a pen in that game, I’ll have to lie to him and just pluck a name out of the Palace line up, he won’t have a clue how to prove me wrong........but there’s the nagging doubt that he knows:sherlock:

[MacAdder]

Re: FAO Eric

Alan Whittle?

Pure guess and don't know why but his name just came to me, 66 might be a bit early though for him.

It seemed Palace were always on "The Big Match"

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FAO Eric

Without doing any research, I'm going to say 1966 would have been way too early for Alan Whittle.
Didn't Whittle play about a decade later?

[MacAdder]

Re: FAO Eric

Without doing any research, I'm going to say 1966 would have been way too early for Alan Whittle.
Didn't Whittle play about a decade later?

I remember him in the 70's but yes, it probably is a bit early for him, I guess he could have spanned the decades.

He had strikingly white white hair which is probably the only reason why he popped into my head.

Eric must've had a lay (lie) in :hehe:

[splott parker]

Re: FAO Eric

Definitely not Whittle, he was Everton as well wasn’t he?

[splott parker]

Re: FAO Eric

Palace team was; John Jackson, Sewell, Long, Payne, Stephenson, Bannister, Robertson, Kember, White, Woodruff, Cliff Jackson.
It couldn’t have been Bobby Woodruff, who later played for and stayed in Cardiff? Surely not.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: FAO Eric

It might need a trip to the records office to look it up in the Echo for definite.

Tom White and Terry Long scored in the second half for Palace. Gregg Farrell was sent off for City, one of only 2 red cards across all 4 divisions that day.

In the return fixture, Barry Dyson scored a penalty for Palace.

[Rjk]

Re: FAO Eric

It might need a trip to the records office to look it up in the Echo for definite.

Tom White and Terry Long scored in the second half for Palace. Gregg Farrell was sent off for City, one of only 2 red cards across all 4 divisions that day.

In the return fixture, Barry Dyson scored a penalty for Palace.

I suppose you could check other palace games that season to see if Dyson took most of the penalties

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: FAO Eric

I suppose you could check other palace games that season to see if Dyson took most of the penalties

He didn't play at Ninian Park, though

[Rjk]

Re: FAO Eric

He didn't play at Ninian Park, though

:sherlock:

[splott parker]

Re: FAO Eric

He didn't play at Ninian Park, though

S’pose that rules him out:hehe:

[BLUETIT]

Re: FAO Eric

Palace team was; John Jackson, Sewell, Long, Payne, Stephenson, Bannister, Robertson, Kember, White, Woodruff, Cliff Jackson.
It couldn’t have been Bobby Woodruff, who later played for and stayed in Cardiff? Surely not.

Out of those names, I’d say Kember

[rich munn]

Re: FAO Eric

Need help on a bit of City history mate. Bit of a story, I’ve got a young lad working for me and he loves me giving him renditions of old City Grange End songs. (God knows why:hehe:), anyway one is from years ago, ‘Ha Ha Ha, Hee, Hee, Hee Palace missed a penalty’ (it was still penalty then, not pelanty). The game was Boxing Day 1966, it did backfire on us singing that though as we got beat 2-1 and then lost at Selhurst Park the very next day. The young lad keeps asking me ‘C’mon then who missed the Palace penalty?’. Gareth Williams scored our goal but I can’t find the name of the Palace penalty misser anywhere................Please don’t ruin things though and tell me that they never had a pen in that game, I’ll have to lie to him and just pluck a name out of the Palace line up, he won’t have a clue how to prove me wrong........but there’s the nagging doubt that he knows:sherlock:

Was that Boxing Day game the one where Greg Farrell was sent off for knocking out one of their players in front of the ref?

:ayatollah:

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: FAO Eric

Was that Boxing Day game the one where Greg Farrell was sent off for knocking out one of their players in front of the ref?

:ayatollah:

Yes. Bit of a fun Boxing day according to the Mirror...

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