For Christmas I was given all of the home programmes from the 1965/66 season. On Tuesday I read the one from the final day against Carlisle. Football programmes have changed a lot of the years and and these could be fitted in your coat pocket unlike the 80 page version you get now. I was also given from someone else a programme from March 1975 and that had many changes.
I saw some names I recognised including John Jackson, David Payne and Steve Kember and other players I had not known about before. Bert Head arrived as manager in the later part of the season.
It was funny to look at some of the adverts to see how things have changed including getting £10 off a new car if you showed them the programme before the end of the season.
Some things seemed to be rather different (as I expected) therefore I have a few questions about Palace around that time and you can also tell me about any personal experiences. I know that some questions do sound a bit silly but I'm just interested to know a bit more.
Firstly, in the programme for the opening home game there is a comment from Arthur Wait and the club getting permission for a new covered stand in Park Road. Was the Crystal Palace Football Club Building Fund (adverted at the start of ever programme) part of the stands fundraising or was that for a different part of the ground?
In a lot of the early season programmes they asked schoolboys not to throw toilet rolls on the pitch. Did anyone on here do that and if so why?
I noticed a page in every programme was given to the supporters club where they talked about different things they were doing for the club including the club shop and raffles. Apart from what I have mentioned how different were they from the supporters trust we have today?
I noticed that coach travel would sometimes leave late on a Friday night ahead of a Saturday game. Why did that happen as now they would just go early on the Saturday?
In many programmes they advertised a weekend trip trip to Great Yarmouth for an away match against Norwich leaving on Friday evening and returning on Sunday afternoon. Was this an annual event and if anyone did go on a weekend away (in any season) with Palace what was it like? I got the impression that they choose somewhere different every season.
Over the Easter weekend we played three games. Home on Good Friday and Saturday and away on Easter Monday. Did we always around that time of the season play three games in four days? Managers would go mad if they happened now. In that season the only thing they didn't like was how much travelling was involved in such a short space of time.
There seemed to be a bigger mention of reserve games compared to the currently under 23 league equivalent. Did these games get big crowds when Palace were away and did they always happen on Saturday afternoons, or was it just a short term thing?
As we went out of the F.A Cup in round 3 (a 3-0 defeat away at Carlisle) they arranged a friendly against Nottingham Forest. Was this a regular thing most teams did or more likely a one off because it suited both clubs?
Lastly did anyone shop in Brake Bros in Croydon? It was the back page advert on every programme.
You don't have to answer all questions and if you know about other season you can tell me about that as well. The first game I went to was in November 2003 so I don't know that much about going to watch Palace before then but would be interest to find out more. If you know of any good websites you can post them on here.
If anyone is interested we finished the season in 11th.
Thanks
I saw some names I recognised including John Jackson, David Payne and Steve Kember and other players I had not known about before. Bert Head arrived as manager in the later part of the season.
It was funny to look at some of the adverts to see how things have changed including getting £10 off a new car if you showed them the programme before the end of the season.
Some things seemed to be rather different (as I expected) therefore I have a few questions about Palace around that time and you can also tell me about any personal experiences. I know that some questions do sound a bit silly but I'm just interested to know a bit more.
Firstly, in the programme for the opening home game there is a comment from Arthur Wait and the club getting permission for a new covered stand in Park Road. Was the Crystal Palace Football Club Building Fund (adverted at the start of ever programme) part of the stands fundraising or was that for a different part of the ground?
In a lot of the early season programmes they asked schoolboys not to throw toilet rolls on the pitch. Did anyone on here do that and if so why?
I noticed a page in every programme was given to the supporters club where they talked about different things they were doing for the club including the club shop and raffles. Apart from what I have mentioned how different were they from the supporters trust we have today?
I noticed that coach travel would sometimes leave late on a Friday night ahead of a Saturday game. Why did that happen as now they would just go early on the Saturday?
In many programmes they advertised a weekend trip trip to Great Yarmouth for an away match against Norwich leaving on Friday evening and returning on Sunday afternoon. Was this an annual event and if anyone did go on a weekend away (in any season) with Palace what was it like? I got the impression that they choose somewhere different every season.
Over the Easter weekend we played three games. Home on Good Friday and Saturday and away on Easter Monday. Did we always around that time of the season play three games in four days? Managers would go mad if they happened now. In that season the only thing they didn't like was how much travelling was involved in such a short space of time.
There seemed to be a bigger mention of reserve games compared to the currently under 23 league equivalent. Did these games get big crowds when Palace were away and did they always happen on Saturday afternoons, or was it just a short term thing?
As we went out of the F.A Cup in round 3 (a 3-0 defeat away at Carlisle) they arranged a friendly against Nottingham Forest. Was this a regular thing most teams did or more likely a one off because it suited both clubs?
Lastly did anyone shop in Brake Bros in Croydon? It was the back page advert on every programme.
You don't have to answer all questions and if you know about other season you can tell me about that as well. The first game I went to was in November 2003 so I don't know that much about going to watch Palace before then but would be interest to find out more. If you know of any good websites you can post them on here.
If anyone is interested we finished the season in 11th.
Thanks
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