£6.30 in today's prices if going with inflation.
Think my first Palace Away day was the same year as you, only memory of that day was a Brighton fan wearing those shitty espidrils straw soled canvas shoes got his foot trodden on by a Police Horse and was howling, it was the blood that makes that stick in my memory Went to the 5 penalty game, Mc Shane goal game, the 5-0 with Coppell as our manager, and other less memorable matches. Went there once when for some reason the Met had decided it was best if they had all the high risk games on one day, and they ended up shifting loads of coppers from Arsenal v Tottenham to Palace v Brighton as it was kicking off more in Selhurst.
An LP was £2.25. Three times the cost of a match day ticket.
First game of the season on a lovely summer day with a perhaps undeserved 1-0 win with a rebuilt team including Fred Binney and Ian Mellor who scored the only goal. With Clough gone and Taylor's changes, our greatest days up to then weren't far away.
I was over for that game (from Copenhagen) , as I recall Peter Grummit played a blinder.
I was at that game but my only memory of it was getting my scarf pinched by some palace scum at the train station after the game! I was also at 0-1 game in 2005, absolute limbs when McShane scored and I lost a necklace in the carnage, but that was made up for when Wayne Henderson threw his gloves into the crowd at the end I caught one of them, still have it to this day.
After said incident there was a further incursion by Palace fans who stormed the turnstiles (they do have previous) and there was the obligatory ‘tearing lumps out of each other’ at the top and bottom of the WHLane end. Over 34,000 at Selhurst that day and Hilaire ran riot.
Remember that, was it Neil smilie scoring a blinding goal for us? I think it was 84/85. I remember the fighting in the seats during the game too.
