Crystal Palace v Southampton matchday programme 2223

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Directors

Chairman Steve Parish, David Blitzer, Joshua Harris, John Textor

Chief Financial Officer

Sean O’Loughlin

Sporting Director Dougie Freedman

Club Secretary Christine Dowdeswell Head of Sports Medicine Dr. Zaf Iqbal Academy Director Gary Issott

Director of U21 Development Mark Bright

Chief Operating Officer Sharon Lacey Chief Commercial Officer

Barry Webber General Counsel

David Nichol Head of Ticketing Paul McGowan Head of Retail Foz Bowers

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer James Woodroof Head of Safeguarding Cassi Wright

Head Groundsman

Bruce Elliott

Editor Will Robinson

Design Billy Cooke, Stu Ellmer, Lucas Gough

Contributors Ian King, Ben Bailey Smith, Tommy Macarthur, Ben Mountain

Photography Neil Everitt, Sebastian

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Printer Bishops Printers

I cried because we got relegated but I think I cried more for Malcolm. I felt so sorry for him because I thought he was such a good manager, and I didn’t think he deserved it

John Jackson: 1942-2022

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Crystal Palace’s players, staff and fans paid tribute to legendary goalkeeper John Jackson before kick-off against Tottenham Hotspur, after he passed away aged 80 last week.

Selhurst Park rose to show its appreciation for the memory of one of the club’s greatest servants, with Palace’s ‘keepers donning shirts bearing his name during the warm-ups.

Nicknamed ‘Stonewall’ by the fans at Selhurst Park, Jackson came through as

a young player at the club and replaced Bill Glazier in 1964, going on to make 222 consecutive appearances –including being ever-present in 1968/69 as Palace reached the top-flight for the first time.

He went on to have a successful career at Leyton Orient, before moving to the United States where he played against Pelé’s New York Cosmos, with the Brazilian all-time great naming Jackson as one of the toughest ‘keepers he faced.

Jackson played 388 times for Palace in total, placing

On this day: january 7th

Exactly a century ago today Palace kicked off their FA Cup journey against Everton on Merseyside, with Edmund Goodman’s side upsetting their Division One opponents with a stunning 6-0 victory – including three goals in three wild second-half minutes.

him sixth on the list of all-time appearances makers.

The thoughts of everyone at the club are with John’s family at this time.

Fan update

Due to rail strikes there will be no service at Selhurst or Thornton Heath two hours prior to kick-off or two hours post-match. Please make alternative arrangements for travel, and leave plenty of time to get to and from the ground.

What’s inside

Why Ben Bailey Smith is seeking another dose of FA Cup magic (Page 38), how Peter Taylor fired Palace to the FA Cup semis against all the odds (Page 12) and more...

Welcome to Selhurst Park to everyone supporting us today, and welcome also Nathan Jones, the Southampton coaching staff, directors, players and visiting fans.

The FA Cup has always been a special competition for me, but also for the players and the fans. The excitement around a cup game is something I didn’t find in other countries when I was playing. Of course, last year we managed to reach the semi-finals, and it was a good journey for the football club. We enjoyed every single game until Wembley.

The league table does not always tell the full story, and every time we have faced Southampton it has been a challenging game. Today will not be different. I don’t judge teams based on their position, because the league will change in the next couple of weeks and months, but by looking at their qualities. I like to go into detail and look at how they played, and Southampton have played some good football and have good players.

I am writing these notes before our game against Spurs, but I was pleased with our performance against Bournemouth. From the start to the end we were solid, disciplined and aggressive, and

it was important for us to remind ourselves that those values are crucial to win football matches.

were good. It is difficult for me to praise a player in particular, because I was pleased with every single one of them – even the substitutes who came on kept the discipline and intensity that we wanted in the game. It was a team performance –it is always about the collective.

The players have options when it comes to set-pieces. We bring ideas to the table and then they are the ones who have to execute them; when they are on the field, they see how the opposition organise themselves and decide which one. We talk about decision making, and our concentration and application in the two goals we scored from corners reflect the quality of the game we played.

When you go away from home and you earn a clean sheet, you take three points and the opposition don’t create very much, that means from the striker to the goalkeeper we

In the FA Cup draw, if you have a home game it is a good advantage – but you still have to perform. We know that a lot of teams in the Premier League are ambitious and everyone is looking to have a good run in the cup, and that is why it is always going to be difficult, but we will put out a team that will help us try to reach the next round.

Thank you for your support .

the FA Cup has always been a special competition for me, but also for the players and the fans. The excitement around a cup game is something I didn’t find in other countries when I was playing

The FA Cup is such a special competition, and last year we managed to reach the semi-finals. It was amazing to see you all at Wembley, and we were disappointed we couldn’t go that final step.

so much of our journey took place at Selhurst Park, against Hartlepool, Stoke City and Everton, and your support helped us through each round. Our self-belief only grew with each victory. It is great for us that we have another home draw this year, because the atmosphere you create will be vital for us to make it to the next round.

We have a tough test today. We have already faced Southampton at Selhurst Park this season and it was a tough game for us, which we won by a single goal. They have appointed a new manager since then and so today will be a different game, but will need to be at our best to come out on top again. Form so often goes out of the window in the FA Cup, and we have already seen Southampton reach the quarter-finals of the League Cup this season.

We were disappointed with the result against Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday night. At half-time we felt that we had had the better of the opening exchanges: we had gone toe-to-toe

with a very good side and had a couple of chances to take the lead. Unfortunately we couldn’t make that happen, and in the second-half we were punished by a top team who were ruthless in front of goal.

I’m not sure the scoreline reflected the overall performance, but we will learn from that experience and be ready to go again. Now it is important to focus fully on the FA Cup before a tough run of Premier League fixtures in the next couple of months.

Our result against Bournemouth was a great way to round off 2022. To win away from home in the Premier League is always a tough task, but to keep a clean sheet, to score the goals we scored and to play with such confidence was an important step and is something we want to do again and again this season.

These kind of FA Cup games often come down to big moments, and we hope we can produce the kind of performance that will allow us to take our place in the next round. Your support will be so important once again.

Make some noise! .

It is great for us that we have another home draw this year, because the atmosphere you create will be vital for us to make it to the next round

Welcome to the supporters, players, staff and directors of Southampton to Selhurst Park for today’s cup match, and of course, to each and every Crystal Palace supporter here to get behind the team – especially to those who are with us for the first time today.

we have faced Southampton many times in cup competitions, with the most recent one in 2016 when we reached the final. Last season’s FA Cup run to Wembley was a hugely enjoyable campaign, and I very much hope that we can go a step further this time around. The journey to Wembley and the day itself really united everyone at the club and all of our supporters around the world, and there was such an incredible feeling of optimism. Despite being defeated in the semi-final, it was a great achievement and occasion. Today presents us with a chance to go one step further, and it is very much my hope that we seize the opportunity and win here today. Cup competitions can provide a welcome distraction when league results hit a dip, and obviously both sides come into this game on the back of disappointing results earlier this week keen to make amends and get back to winning ways.

On Wednesday night, we paid our respects to members of the Palace family who passed away in 2022 including a special tribute to John Jackson. John truly was a club legend, clocking up just shy of 400 appearances – and it was wonderful to see the tribute from our goalkeeping contingent, as well as Julian Speroni who knew John well, alongside supporters in the stands. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.

I was also saddened to learn of David Gold’s passing. He was an absolute gentleman, and always had kind and supportive words for me when things were tough despite our two clubs being London and league rivals. He knew how to win with grace and lose with dignity, and I will miss him greatly.

I ask you to throw everything you have behind Patrick and his team, as we look to secure our spot in the fourth round of this magical competition that we would dearly love to win.

Up the Palace .

throw everything you have behind Patrick and his team, as we look to secure our spot in the fourth round of this magical competition that we would dearly love to win

At the heart of Palace’s unlikely run to the FA Cup semi-finals in 1976 was Peter Taylor, the on-field embodiment of Malcolm Allison’s never-say-die attitude. Here, he explains to Will Robinson the delicate art of man management, self-confidence – and why sometimes being written off is the best motivation of all.

got to Crystal Palace and Malcolm Allison said to me: ‘This is the sixth time I have tried to sign you

In 1973, Peter Taylor walked into the manager’s office at Selhurst Park and sat down. The surroundings were unfamiliar, and the stadium seemed vast compared to the one he had left in Southend – it was as if the echoes of the 40,000 strong crowd danced and flickered around the room.

He was still a young player, but already in his mind’s eye he was flirting with a future in coaching. Sitting across the desk was a mentor in waiting. He was about to learn one of the fundamental principles he would carry with him for the rest of his career.

Football management is far from easy. You are dealing with supreme talent, with fragile egos, with the hopes and dreams of young men who have sacrificed everything to get this far and won’t take kindly to someone getting in their way. It’s a dog-eatdog world, after all.

But that doesn’t mean football management has to be aggressive. As they say, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. To get the most out of a player, how about treating him like he is the most important person in the room?

“I got to Crystal Palace and Malcolm Allison said to me: ‘This is the sixth time I have tried to sign you,’” Taylor remembers of that first encounter. “I found that amazing. At that time it was so different to now. Now you would hear it in 10 seconds because of agents.

“It was the first thing he said to me when I walked into his

office – it was the second time at Palace and he had tried four times at Manchester City. It was just so different and exciting. I played in the first-team at Southend but being the young, local player I think it was easier to leave me out because the manager knew I wouldn’t give him any hassle.

“All of sudden now I was going to play in front of a big crowd. I was going to play with Don Rogers and Alan Whittle. There just seemed a buzz about the place.”

This was the genius of Malcolm Allison. You could not help but be caught up in his self-assurance and joviality; his boisterous nature wasn’t an affront to reality or a hubristic expression of overconfidence but an invitation to dream big and stand tall.

“Every time I walked into his office I walked out feeling a better player,” Taylor says. “He gave me so much confidence and belief that I could be a really good player for him, and it was lovely.

“I know there are times when you have to give people a

I played in the first-team at Southend but being the young, local player

I think it was easier to leave me out because the manager knew I wouldn’t give him any hassle

rollicking, and I’m sure he gave me a rollicking every now and then, but lots of times he made me feel 10 feet tall by telling me what I could do, what I should do and how to go for it.

“The first year I got there we got relegated at Cardiff. I cried in the changing room – I cried because we got relegated, but I think I cried more for Malcolm. I felt so sorry for him because I thought he was such a good manager, and I didn’t think he deserved it.”

Palace were marooned in the third tier, but it was here that they had one of their most memorable campaigns. The FA Cup run of 1975/76 was a sporting visualisation of the unending selfbelief of Allison’s side – and at its heart was Taylor.

First up were Scarborough, and of course he scored the winner. Some 23rd birthday present. But then came the draw and Leeds United, who just six months earlier had narrowly lost to Bayern Munich in the European Cup final.

Was there a moment of trepidation? Don’t be silly. “We went there full of belief,” says Taylor. “We had so much confidence that we might cause an upset. The FA Cup was a massive competition and Leeds were a massive team.

“For us it was nothing to lose. If they had beaten us people would have said: ‘Well, they are First Division’. But we knew that player for player if we had a good

day we could match anyone. If you see the start of the game, Jim Cannon gets the ball and beats three players straight from kick-off – that was the confidence we had!”

That confidence was not misplaced. Palace took the game to the favourites and emerged victorious; the margin of victory was a single goal and that flattered Leeds. Next up came Chelsea, and up stepped Taylor again.

For us it was nothing to lose. If they had beaten us people would have said: ‘Well, they are First Division’. But we knew that player for player if we had a good day we could match anyone

“I was really pleased to be in London because until then we were away from home, and I felt for our supporters,” he says. “It was an absolute sell-out. There were policemen with horses there to stop any fighting. It was madness, but what an atmosphere it was.”

Early in the first-half he twisted away from his marker and thundered an effort against the crossbar, for Nick Chatterton to tap home. It may well have crossed the line by its own volition, but there was to be no ‘Geoff Hurst’ luck for Taylor that day (“I could have done with VAR, eh?” he quips).

It was an absolute sell-out. what an atmosphere it was

Taylor got on the scoresheet soon enough, finishing off a sumptuous team move to double the advantage. But disaster struck, and Chelsea hit back. Twice. Character was required, and Allison’s side had that in spades, but they needed something else too: a sprinkling of inventiveness and tactical nous. That’s where his assistant stepped in.

“When we had people like Terry Venables coming in, you could never have dreamt we were in the third division,” Taylor says. “He is one of the best coaches in the world, but he also wanted people to enjoy themselves, to have a laugh.

“On the training field he was far more serious than Malcolm. Venables was the organiser. I’ve learned a lot from him in that respect. Players can have fun, but they have to be serious at the right time and that was Terry. On the training field he was the boss, there is no doubt about that.”

It was here that the work on the training field paid off. “When Terry joined us he was a playercoach, and he was so clever on the

When we had people like Terry Venables coming in, you could never have dreamt we were in the third division, He is one of the best coaches in the world, but he also wanted people to enjoy themselves

I enjoy improving a player. No matter what I’m doing, I will always try to do that

pitch with set-pieces. He made me start thinking about them too.

“When we played Leeds, Dave Swindlehurst had an almighty long shot from the exact same position as our free-kick against Chelsea. I said to myself: ‘They will think he’ll hit it again’. I said to Swindy: ‘Do me a favour, please just run over it’. I’m sure Chelsea will have been thinking about how powerful he was, and then it was a different kind of free-kick. That’s what Terry Venables encouraged us to be: to be different.”

Taylor used the decoy perfectly, floating a dipping, curling effort into the top corner and sending Palace to the quarter-finals. Sunderland came next, and once again were no bother.

Allison’s side had reached the semi-finals for the first time in the club’s history, and had become the first third-tier team to do so. But their meteoric rise had not gone unnoticed, and suddenly – despite facing a Southampton team a division higher – they were labelled as favourites. For the notorious upstarts, this tag did not sit well.

“Before the game people were talking about us winning,” Taylor remembers. “That might have been a slight difference. It just wasn’t a good performance on our part, it might have got to us. I don’t think either team deserved to win. We should have all gone off down the pub and had a replay the next week.”

Despite the ultimate disappointment, Taylor looks back on that FA Cup run as a crucial education for his coaching career. He had founded a Sunday league team aged 17 and managed them to eight straight promotions – he was, by his own admittance, always watching Allison and Venables for ways to hone his craft.

Now, having called time on a successful playing career and gone on to manage at Palace and – the highest honour of all – England, he can look back on a wealth of knowledge gleaned from decades in the game. Much like that first meeting with Allison, the principles are simple.

“Talk to them – always talk to them. Have lots of one-on-one meetings. Be honest and let them know what they need. If someone needs to be quicker, think about how you can help them. If they need to be better in the air, do the same. You have to put a lot of thought in, do things you believe in.

“It was always in my head that I enjoy improving a player. No matter what I’m doing, I will always try to do that.”

It just wasn’t a good performance on our part, it might have got to us. I don’t think either team deserved to win. We should have all gone off down the pub and had a replay the next week

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#40 What is your favourite film?

The Bridges of Madison County, a Clint Eastwood film. It’s a very romantic one with Meryl Streep. It’s a lovely film, but very sad. I’m 70-years of age, I can’t go giving you the latest

#23 Favourite stadium to play in?

Elland Road. I’ve always had good results there as a player. For Palace we beat them in the cup and for Spurs we beat them in the league. I

#1 Who was your childhood idol?

I absolutely loved George Best. I thought he was a joy to watch. He was just so exciting. I always said to myself: ‘I want to be George Best’. I eventually met him one day and had a chat with him – he was a lot shyer than people thought. Rodney Marsh kept saying: ‘Go and talk to him! He wants people to talk to him because he’s a bit shy’. That was a nice afternoon.

#53 If you could relive one day in your life, which would it be?

To manage your country. I never dreamt that would happen to me. When I started my coaching career, as much as I would have been determined to, I never dreamt that would happen. We met three or four days before the game – if I could relive those few days again that would be my perfect situation.

#10 Favourite artist?

Crikey, I’m showing my age here. When I was a younger player it was Paul McCartney and Elton John. I always think about the song Daniel, because when I was in the England squad Elton came to join us in Finland for a game, and I sang it with him and Ray Wilkins on the stage. Not bad that, is it?

Peter Taylor has done it all as a player and a manager, but as we dip into our bag of quick-fire questions, does he feel lucky, punk?

Worth a try? Probably.

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Did you know?

For many years Southampton’s crest was the same used by the city itself, before a competition in the 1970s allowed fans to design a new badge. The winning effort, by Rolland Paris, is still used today – albeit modified – with the halo representing the club’s ‘Saints’ nickname.

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However, with such a tightly compacted league table they know that a couple of positive results could turn the season around, and the FA Cup is the perfect opportunity to gather momentum.

New manager Nathan Jones has had a tough run of fixtures since taking over in November, including facing Newcastle and Liverpool, but his success has come in the domestic cup competitions. Southampton are into the quarter-finals of the League Cup after victory over Lincoln City, where they face eight-times winners Manchester City.

Jones will hope James WardProwse – who took another step towards equalling David Beckham’s free-kick record on New Year’s Eve – and co. can continue their cup form at Selhurst Park.

After playing more than 100 times for Palace as an Academy graduate, winning Player of the Season in 2010/11, Clyne moved on to Southampton where he spent three years at St Mary’s. His form on the south coast earned him a first England call-up

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Born in Morocco, Elyounoussi moved to Norway as a child and has since racked up 47 appearances for the national side. He arrived in the Premier League in a £16 million deal in 2018, impressing on loan at Celtic before establishing himself in the side at St Mary’s last season.

Palace have won back-to-back games against Southampton, and can make it three in a row for the first time since 1965 with a win at Selhurst Park.

The Eagles have faced Southampton eight times in the FA Cup, winning five and seeing one go to a replay - their last defeat was the semi-final in 1976.

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Times have changed over Crystal Palace’s rich and storied history. In each edition, we dust off the archive and reprint a story from one of the club’s historical programmes. Today, we head back to last season’s FA Cup quarter-final to republish an abridged interview with legendary Palace ‘keeper John Jackson.

March 20th, 2022

If John Jackson was better at Latin, he might never have played for Crystal Palace. Oxford or Cambridge University offered Jackson a place as a teenager (“at my age,” he says, “I can’t remember which,”) but with a caveat: he had to pass his Latin A-Level.

While he was still studying, Palace scouted the young goalkeeper in a London Grammar Schools game and invited him to sign. Balancing school with football wasn’t allowed – and Jackson knew he’d never pass Latin – so after two or three months he “knocked [university] on the head.”

Jackson’s struggle with Latin proved to be a felix culpa for the club, but there was work to do yet. The teenager didn’t want to gamble everything on football, so signed a part-time professional contract, continued his education and worked once a week in Chairman Arthur Wait’s estate management company.

Soon enough Jackson had a meeting with his college. One afternoon a week wasn’t enough to build a career on, he was told, so he had to pick a path. Jackson signed as a professional.

“So Bill [Glazier] got promoted to the first-team and I was Reserve team ‘keeper. That’s how it went until I had one [senior] game against Swindon. I ran out onto the pitch and there was a big banner up behind one goal: ‘Bring back Bill Glazier.’ I thought: ‘That’s a good start, Jacko!'" Jackson played half the games in 64/65, but by the start of 65/66 – in which he would play almost constantly – says he still wasn’t

convinced his career lay in football. Then he travelled to Molineux in October 1965.

“After that game I was sitting in the dressing room with the players and manager, who’d had a chat with us. Suddenly the door opened and this guy walked in, turned to me and said that was the best goalkeeping performance he’d ever seen at Wolverhampton. He shook my hand and walked out."

I thought: ‘Who’s that?’ [Palace manager] Dick Graham said: ‘It’s the Chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers!’… Once the Chairman said that to me I suddenly realised I could make it in the game, and if I continued what I was doing I’d have a good career in it.”

The above copy is printed verbatim.

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Ben Bailey Smith, aka Doc Brown, does it all – acting, rapping, writing, directing, you name it. The multifaceted Palace fan is also a patron of Palace for Life Foundation. In each edition, he offers his unique take on the world in SE25.

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And so we turn our attentions to that grand old competition, the FA Cup, and the magic of the third round. If you don’t hear a commentator use the word magic this week, I’ll do 20 laps of Selhurst Park in my Christmas boxers at half-time against Saints. Not traditionally that magical for us, the third round. In fact, since the heroics of 1990, we’ve been dumped out at the first hurdle 17 times, which is more tragical than magical.

And yet I remain a sucker. I’m one of those crazy fools who gets excited by Cup Fairy Dust every year, who thinks “why not Palace?” as we get our behinds handed to us in successive seasons by Preston North End.

Yep, I’m that goofball who just can’t shake the memories of how close we came in those two finals, both weirdly against substandard iterations of the great Manchester United. It all could’ve been so different if just a little more of that magic had been sprinkled our way.

I do a lot of magical thinking. Basically, I often get obsessed with what some call Sliding Doors

Moments – when if one little thing went differently, an entire alternate future could have played out. 1990 was a great example of that. A pre-Sir Alex Ferguson was on the ropes at United – they were frankly a bit rubbish – and losing to lowly Palace may well have signed his marching orders. Maybe he goes back to Aberdeen or comes in as an interim manager at Millwall only to finish bottom. Palace meanwhile march on into the Cup Winners Cup – they don’t win it but they “make a lot of friends along the way” lighting up the Camp Nou, the San Siro, catching eyes around Europe.

A young Ruud Gullit calls us the most dangerous team in England. Maybe we finish the following season a couple of places above where we did in real life (third! Ask your parents!) – in a Champions League position that hadn’t yet been invented.

I’m that kid who’s forever waiting for another hattrick from Danny Butterfield, another near-post crowd-silencer from Martin Kelly

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Maybe Manchester United don’t go on to create an impenetrable empire – maybe it’s the Boys From SE25 who take the inaugural Premier League by storm.

That, my friends, is the awesome power of FA Cup magic. The knock-on effects can be truly profound. But she’s a cruel mistress. There’s no chance of immediate redemption like at Bournemouth after Fulham at Christmas. It’s who dares wins in the moment now, but perhaps more pointedly – who wants it more? Who will be brave enough to perform true wizardry? Generally, a good cup run gains magical powers when a league position is relatively secure. Not to be a weasel here (I definitely am) but who has more stomach for a third round victory today? I hate to say it (I don’t really), but shouldn’t Southampton be under the spell of that dark magic provided by a relegation dogfight? Oh god, now I’ve said that, James Ward-bloomingProwse is gonna slap a perfect free-kick on a Holmesdale postage stamp isn’t he? There’s magic in that wand of a right foot… Joachim! Marc! Get on him!

In one solitary day, with one solitary chance, a single bite at the apple, it’s do or die, kill or be killed, winner takes all

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southampton √ crystal palace - 1965

Cold winter weather, Palace v Southampton in the FA Cup and a football schedule disrupted by a state funeral – it all sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Well, that might be because it has happened once before…

In 1965 Palace reached the FA Cup quarter-finals, a feat last achieved in 1907. It began on a bitter January afternoon with a 5-1 home victory over Bury. The Glaziers missed an early penalty as centre-forward Cliff Holton saw the ball strike the Shakers keeper’s legs, and he drove the rebound wide – but foolishly the ‘keeper had ruffled Holton’s wellcombed locks. A few minutes later he set up David Burnside for the first goal and then further rubbed salt in the wounds by going on to score three himself.

The date for the fourth round was set for Saturday, 30th January, but five days earlier World War Two Prime Minister Winston Churchill passed away following a stroke. Just 20 years after the war had ended, Churchill was awarded a state funeral – the last seen in this country until Queen Elizabeth II herself in 2022 – after four days lying in state in Westminster Hall.

Both Palace and Southampton were in the top

six in Division Two. Palace had not played at this level for 40 years, and such was the interest in the tie that 6,000 Palace fans were in the 26,000 crowd and the Southern Region, not only tasked with arranging Churchill’s funeral train from Waterloo, organised three special trains from the Selhurst area to Southampton.

The day itself was grey, dry and cold as thousands lined the funeral route from Westminster to St. Paul’s Cathedral and millions more watched worldwide on television. Meanwhile, Palace fans were setting off for Hampshire.

Summer signing Roy Horobin was given his debut on the right as Palace faced the Saints for the third time that season. Horobin made his mark after just 25 seconds, crossing the ball for Holton to head home. They

doubled their advantage 10 minutes before half-time, Holton turning provider for Keith Smith to find the back of the net. After the break, Saints rallied but Bobby Kellard appeared to cover every blade of grass to help the team protect

their advantage. While back defending, he was adjudged to have handled the ball in the penalty area and even John Jackson in goal couldn’t stop O’Brien’s spot-kick. Palace held out nonetheless and went into the fifth round draw for the first time in 36 years.

The run continued. First Division Nottingham Forest arrived at Selhurst Park in February and were dispatched on a snow-flecked pitch. The quarter-final pitched us against Leeds United, again in SE25 –and again the winter weather intervened to postpone the fixture for four days. The cup run came to an end with a three-goal defeat, but both these games set record attendances to show that Palace could attract First Division attendances if – or more accurately when – they got there .

cliff holton & roy horobin

crystal palace √ nottingham forest feb 20 1965 | fa cup fifth round

palace for life

last November, 14 young volunteers from Palace for Life’s Get Involved programme, which gives opportunities for young people and adults from the Asian and Muslim communities to participate in football within Croydon, organised a football tournament to fundraise for families affected by the devastating effects of the floods in Pakistan.

A torrential monsoon in June triggered the most severe flooding in Pakistan’s recent history, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes, public health services, water systems, and schools severely damaged or destroyed.

Many of the young Get Involved participants are of Pakistani heritage and so naturally wanted to do something to help. Being volunteers for Crystal Palace’s official charity, it wasn’t long before the idea of a football tournament hosted at the Palace Academy was suggested.

The group got together at Selhurst Park to organise the logistics of the tournament, aiming for a total of 16 teams to take part. Throughout their planning sessions, the volunteers took on the responsibility of getting in touch with

local mosques and other grassroots teams to recruit players, and others took on the role of researching charities and tournament logistics.

to get as much of the community involved as possible.

“The volunteers have done an absolutely fantastic job, and it’s a great experience for them to come and organise such a large event and to raise money for the Pakistan floods,” said Hazmi Bahrin, who runs the Get Involved programme. “Not only is it a really good experience, but they’re also getting something really fantastic out of it that they can be proud of.”

The tournament set-up was a huge part of the planning, with over 150 players expected. Every volunteer did their bit, using their network and connections

The tournament was a huge success. The south London volunteers reached their 16team target, meaning they had over 150 players playing in the Academy’s dome and in the process raised over £2,235 for the Shahid Afridi Foundation.

Saima Khan is Executive Director at the Shahid Afridi

PALACE FOR LIFE VOLUNTEERS RAISE OVER £2,000 TO HELP VICTIMS OF PAKISTAN FLOODS

Not only is it a really good experience, but they’re also getting something really fantastic out of it that they can be proud of

Foundation, a non-profit in Pakistan that aims to improve the conditions of underprivileged communities in terms of Education, Healthcare Services, Access to Water, Sports Rehabilitation and Emergency Relief Response.

“It’s always incredible seeing the youth drive projects, and the football tournament that was organised to benefit those affected by the floods has been nothing short of remarkable,” she said.

“We have been on the ground providing emergency relief, and are now looking to help rehabilitate and re-home those that have lost their livelihood, home and belongings. It’s important for communities to come together during these times of adversity to help make a difference, and we feel honoured to have the support of Palace for Life with this project.”

The fundraiser was also attended by Saima Mohsin, a Sky News reporter who was in Pakistan when the disaster struck.

“People really want to help and what’s really pleased me is that this is not just people who are of Pakistani heritage, this is people who are from south London, from the academy, from the Palace for Life Foundation – all getting together regardless of their heritage trying to do something good and help people who are miles away,” she said.

Palace for Life would like to extend a big thank you to all of the Get Involved volunteers who helped to organise this event, to the Shahid Afridi Foundation, Saima Khan and Saima Mohsin for their support .

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team stats: women / U21s / U18s

Fran Kitching

Kitching kept a clean sheet in her final game before the winter break, and will hope to add a fifth of the season against Watford.

Killian Phillips

After a brace against Newcastle United in December, Phillips has joined League One Shrewsbury Town for the remainder of the season.

Home fixture Away fixture Cup fixture (Crystal Palace score shown first)

AUGUST

Mon 8 Brighton & Hove Albion W 3-2

Fri 12 Manchester United W 5-1

Fri 19 Fulham D 2-2

Fri 26 Wolves W 2-1

Tue 30 Swindon Town W 2-0

SEPTEMBER

Sat 3 Tottenham Hotpsur W 3-0

Sat 17 Chelsea D 3-3

OCTOBER

Sat 1 West Ham United W 1-0

Tue 4 Bristol Rovers L 0-2

Sun 9 Everton L 3-4

Tue 18 Plymouth Argyle L 0-1

Sat 22 Manchester City D 3-3

Mon 31 Arsenal D 1-1

NOVEMBER

Fri 4 Leicester City D 0-0

Mon 14 Sheffield United W 2-1

Mon 21 Newcastle United W 1-0

Mon 28 Bristol City D 2-2

december

Mon 5 Bristol City L 2-5

Mon 19 Newcastle UnitedL 2-3

JANUARY

Sun 8 Brighton & Hove Albion

Fri 13 Sheffield United

Mon 16 Fulham

Sun 22 Liverpool

Mon 30 Manchester City

FEBRUARY

Mon 13 Leicester City

Mon 20 Manchester United

Mon 27 Tottenham Hotspur

MARCH

Fri 3 Everton

Fri 17 Arsenal

APRIL

Mon 3 Chelsea

Fri 7 Blackburn Rovers

Mon 17 West Ham United

Mon 24 Wolves

MAY

Mon 1 Blackburn Rovers

Sat 6 Liverpool

SEPTEMBER

David Obou Obou signed his first professional contract with the club after turning 17-years-old, and hopes to return to action after injury in pre-season.

AUGUST

Sat 13 West Ham United L 2-3

Sat 20 Aston Villa W 4-0

Sat 27 West Bromwich Albion W 3-0

SEPTEMBER

Sat 3 Brighton & Hove Albion W 3-0

Sat 17 Southampton W 3-2

OCTOBER

Sat 1 Chelsea W 3-2

Sat 8 Sheffield United W 2-1

Sat 22 Leicester City L 1-5

Sat 29 Fulham D 2-2

NOVEMBER

Sat 5 Leeds United L 2-5

Sat 19 Norwich City D 2-2

Sat 26 Tottenham Hotspur L 1-3

DECEMBER

Sat 3 Brighton & Hove Albion W 5-0

Sun 11 Manchester UnitedL 1-3

JANUARY

Sat 7 West Ham United

Sat 14 Fulham

Sat 28 Aston Villa

FEBRUARY

Sat 4 Arsenal

Sat 11 Tottenham Hotspur

Sat 18 Brighton & Hove Albion

Sat 25 Arsenal

MARCH

Sat 18 Leicester City

APRIL

Sat 1 Southampton

Sat 15 Norwich City

Sat 22 Chelsea

Sat 29 West Bromwich Albion

u18s u21s women

Chloe Arthur 8

Paige Bailey-Gayle 7

Kirsty Barton 81

Annabel Blanchard 11 1

Charley Clifford 1

Rianna Dean

Polly Doran 11

Aimee Everett 7

Anna Filbey 81

Fliss Gibbons 61

Shauna Guyatt 9

Coral-Jade Haines 91 Elise Hughes 11 4

Annabel Johnson 10 Fran Kitching (GK) 10 Natalia Negri (GK) 1

Leigh Nicol

Ellie Noble 6

Hollie Olding 4

Chloe Peplow 6

Kirsten Reilly 8 Molly-Mae Sharpe 11 2

Isabella Sibley 71 Hope Smith (GK)

Lizzie Waldie 8

Tayo Adaramola 12

Josh Addae 4

Victor Akinwale 16 3

Kofi Balmer 13

Ryan Bartley 2

Freddie Bell 1

David Boateng 1 Maliq Cadogan 10 1 Owen Goodman (GK) 16

John-Kymani Gordon 16 13 Seán Grehan 18

Danny Imray 10

Jackson Izquierdo (GK) 3

Fionn Mooney 3 Adler Nascimento 2

Jake O’Brien 2

Ademola Ola-Adebomi 18 3

David Omilabu 19 7

David Ozoh 17 1 Killian Phillips 19 7

Dan Quick 1

Jesurun Rak-Sakyi 1

Jadan Raymond 8 Kaden Rodney 17 Laurence Shala (GK) Cardo Siddik 3

Rob Street 42

Matthew Vigor 2 Noah Watson 12 Jack Wells-Morrison 18 1 Joe Whitworth (GK) 3

Cormac Austin 8

Kalani Barton 10

Freddie Bell 13 2

Rio Cardines 7 1

Junior Dixon 1311

William Eastwood (GK)

Joseph Gibbard 12 1

Jake Grante 13 Jackson Izquierdo (GK) 11 Eyimofe Jemide 14

David Ozoh 2 1

Caleb Kporha 14 2

Giulio Marroni 2

Zach Marsh 12 4

Hindolo Mustapha 11 1 Adler Nascimento 13 5

Kaden Rodney 21

Laurence Shala (GK) 4

Basilio Socoliche 11 2

Vonnte Williams 13 1

1 ars11 650 2412+1223 2 liv11 641 2212+1022 3 mci11 632 2918+1121 4 che12 552 2920+920 5 cry11 551 2617+920 6 ful11 542 2511+1419

7 eve11 614 2118+319

8 bha11 443 2318+516

9 wol12 426 1826-814

10 bla12 318 1625-910 11 mun12 174 2136-1510

12 lei11 236 1425-11 9

13 whu13 229 1527-12 8

14 tot13 0679 27-18 6

1 whu1010 00 3816+2230 2 ful10 523 3316+1717 3 cry10 523 2619+717 4 che10 514 1920-116 5 tot10 505 2021-115 6 nor10 334 1317-412 7 wba 9324 1516-111 8 bha10 325 1124-1311 9 sou 9234 2022-2 9 10 ars 9234 1619-3 9 11 avl10 235 2232-10 9 12 lei 9216 1122-11 7

Home fixture Away fixture Cup fixture (Crystal Palace score shown first)

Started Used sub Unused sub Goal(s) Yellow card Red card

AUGUST

Jack Butland Joel Ward Tyrick Mitchell Luka Milivojevic James Tomkins Marc Guéhi

DateOpposition attendance/ KICK-OFF ResultPosition 010203040506

Fri 5 Arsenal 25,286 L 0-2 17th

Mon 15 Liverpool 52,970 D 1-1 16th

Sat 20 Aston Villa 25,012 W 3-1 9th

Tue 23 Oxford United 9,564 W 2-0 Second round

Sat 27 Manchester City 53,112 L 2-4 12th

Tue 30 Brentford 25,043 D 1-1 13th

SEP Sat 3 Newcastle United 51,863 D 0-0 15th

Sat 1 Chelsea 25,125 L 1-2 17th

Sun 9 Leeds United 25,002 W 2-1 15th

OCTOBER

NOV

Sat 15 Leicester City 31,298 D 0-0 13th

Tue 18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 25,099 W 2-1 11th

Sat 22 Everton 38,939 L 0-3 13th

Sat 29 Southampton 25,130 W 1-0 10th

Sat 5 West Ham United 62,451 W 2-1 10th

Wed 9 Newcastle United 51,660 D 0-0 (3-2) Third round

Sat 12 Nottingham Forest 29,045 L 0-1 11th

DEC Mon 26 Fulham 25,176 L 0-3 11th

JANUARY

Sat 31 Bournemouth 9,972 W 2-0 11th

Wed 4 Tottenham Hotspur 25,169 L 0-4 12th

Sat 7 Southampton 12:30

Sun 15 Chelsea 14:00

Sat 21 Newcastle United 17:30

Sat 4 Manchester United 15:00

FEBRUARY

March

Sat 11 Brighton & Hove Albion 15:00

Sat 18 Brentford 15:00

Sat 25 Liverpool 19:45

Sat 4 Aston Villa 15:00

Sat 11 Manchester City 15:00

Sat 18 Arsenal 15:00

Sat 1 Leicester City 15:00

Sat 8 Leeds United 15:00

APRIL

Sat 15 Southampton 15:00

Sat 22 Everton 15:00

Tue 25 Wolverhampton Wanderers 19:45

Sat 29 West Ham United 15:00

Sat 6 Tottenham Hotspur 15:00

Sat 13 Bournemouth 15:00

MAY

Sat 20 Fulham 15:00

Sun 28 Nottingham Forest 16:00

TBC Manchester United TBC

TBC Brighton & Hove Albion TBC