Quote Originally Posted by Packerman View Post
Alison made comments about our crowds after we beat them at selhurst in 1976 front of 25000 i think the relegation game was 1974, we had the last laugh with promotion at their expense and 35000 against Hereford
I was at that Palace game in 1976 - for the first time I saw us dominate an away game and Adrian Alston scored a late winner. Allison used to wear a fedora, and when he was popular so did the Palace fans. On the way out the ground was littered with trampled fedoras.

In midweek we had 35,000 plus for a match against Hereford who were also challenging at the top. Allison's comments were one of the causes of that turnout, which I believe was a record for that division. We won 2 - 0.