Easter 1969

It being Easter takes my mind back some fifty two years, to one of the best seasons in our history. We were in a good position in the league and had two tough matches for our Easter programme, but they were at home and I couldn’t wait. Good Friday started sunny but with that chill you get with a spring morning. I was up and out to Wallington station early, couldn’t afford to miss the train especially with it being a Sunday service and an 11.00 kick off. As I got off at Selhurst there seemed to be more people than usual and I worried that I might be late. Fortunately it was because the crowd was well over 40k that day, against a very good Middlesbrough side who were up there with us. The game itself was a bit of a stalemate with both sides happy with a draw rather than risk defeat. The good thing I thought on the train home was that I only had about twenty six hours to wait before I would be back watching us take on Pompey.
When I got into the ground on Saturday I remember seeing the ITV camera trucks, so knew we would be on the telly later! The game relatively easy for us,Cliff Jackson scored if I remember correctly but the highlight of the game was Steve Kember’s turn and volley from about fifteen yards into the back of the net at the Holmesdale end. The crowd of about 30k went home happywith a 3-1 win, and as I spend the journey home working out how many points we need etc.What I didn’t realise that i would never see my beloved team play on consecutive days ever again.

Rotivators

Does anyone have any experience or expertise?

Friend of mine is branching out into landscaping from general building and is going self employed, and was asking what is most reliable and what to look for in the things.

Any advice or experience to pass on? Thanks

Democracy under Siege

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Following on from the police UK thread.

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The countries experiencing deterioration outnumbered those with improvements by the largest margin recorded since the negative trend began in 2006. The long democratic recession is deepening...With India’s decline to Partly Free, less than 20 percent of the world’s population now lives in a Free country, the smallest proportion since 1995.

Jones Knows

Has anyone noticed Sky sports website’s premier league predictions guy, Jones knows, always predicts Palace to lose and week in week out gives a little comment as to how bad we are. I recall one week he expressed amazement that we had the points total we have. His latest prediction for out game against Everton takes the biscuit altogether though. Jones seems to ‘know’ we will lose 8 of our last 9 games and that every club will have marked us down for an easy three points. Has he something against us or what? I think we’d be on single figures points if his predictions for us were accurate.

Crystal Ball: Everton Away

It seems to be ages since our team played in the Premier League, but we travel to Goodison Park for a 6pm kick off on Monday night.

Still no fans allowed, so predictions of the score and scorers. COYP

Incident at US Capitol (02/04/21)

A person has been shot and is believed to have died after a car drove at police officers at a barricade outside the US Capitol.

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Wedding Suit Shopping

Number 1 question, what is the situation with Moss Bros? There was some talk a while back that they were in trouble so would it be unwise to get anything from there?

Just when I thought this would be pretty boring and tedious, I didn't factor in the added complications that have no doubt stemmed from a year of Covid!

Getting married in late September (I hope) and trying to find suits for the wedding party but it appears every retailer is having a massive sale on anything worth having at a semi reasonable price and of course have cleared massive amounts of their stock. So I am now playing the game of sizing bingo...

Any recommendations on places to buy wedding suits, grey (medium/charcoal kind of colour), three piece and regular fit with ideally a budget of less than £150 each (for the 3 piece itself)?