We all follow the Palace, Over land and sea, And Brighton…
For a long many years I’ve followed the fortunes of Crystal Palace F.C. For many years I went along every saturday afternoon when they were playing at Selhurst Park to watch them play, sometimes mid-week night games, sometimes even getting a coach to watch them play away.
The New Years day match in Brighton, the long weekend double headers, cup games.
Sometimes I even went to watch other teams, at other grounds.
But I’ve always followed “The Palace”
I watched them when they had Ian Wright, Mark Bright and Andy Gray playing, and scoring some of the most spectacular goals, lots of them.
They had John Salako, Alan Pardew, and Geoff Thomas. I saw Phil Barber, Micky Droy, and Jim Cannon.
I saw legends, and I saw donkeys.
I drank more warm bovril and luke warm pies than I care to remember.
And I saw them win, and I saw them lose.
Today they beat an “Old Foe”, and that reminded me that I’ve never stopped following them, over land and sea….. and never will, and the strange way that an event that you have no control over can make or break your day.
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