Vince Hilaire, Hello Hello

Vince Hilaire, Hello Hello

Sometimes there is a very tenuous/weak link and this next one has to be the poorest excuse I've ever used to post some music in relation to football. But it is also gives me a great excuse to shine a light on a Crystal Palace legend: photograph copyright © of George Herringshaw & sporting-heroes.net Vince Hilaire, who was a member of

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Ooh Ah…My Goodness Me!

Ooh Ah...My Goodness Me!

Everybody remembers well that night of the 15th of January 1995, which was fifteen years ago now. It was where their chase for the title took a kick to the head when they drew at Crystal Palace. With this result and the loss of their talismanic (or just manic as it was) captain for the rest of the season, their grip of the trophy slipped

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Eagles Flying Low ?

Eagles Flying Low ?

...or something about their wings being clipped ? I dunno... I'll come back to this when I've got a better title. This is the other post looking at two teams with two common denominators: 1) They are in a financial crisis and 2) but they are still in the FA Cup. The club featured yesterday are close to being wound up in court. Late Update:

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Venables Is A Swinger

Venables Is A Swinger

Another run out for Dagenham Dave and his penchant for belting out the occasional tune. I don't have anything to add what I previously wrote so I'll repost the quote from an article about him: “... He’s [Venables] not new to crooning. As a nightclub owner he used to treat the punters to a regular SingalongaTel, and as a teenager he sang

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Stranger Than Fiction

This one starts out as strange and then gets a whole lot weird... Here's a chant that Palace fans would have heard a few years back: "He's fat, he's round, he's taking Crystal Palace down..." The Swede with a turning circle of the Titanic came to our attention when he scored the winning goal in their match against England which knocked us ou

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A Tale Of Two Bosses

Today's post looks at two troubbled English managers who were at one point mentioned, or in one case actually had temporary custody of The Big Chair. In both cases their flight in the top tier was fleeting and afterwards both spent time rebuilding their reputations lower down before taking positions with teams which both had an outside chance of

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