Your favourite players side

[SirBloody Idiot]

Roberto Abbondanzieri

Gareth Bale
Jaap Stam
Ned Zelic
Philipp Lahm

Marc Overmars
Rafael van der Vaart
Edgar Davids
Aaron Lennon

Shaun Goater
Bobby Despotovski

Bosnich and Ronaldo stiff to miss.

Manager: Bernd Stange

 

[grecian]

BTW, reading back through this thread makes mr miss Aussie, whens he due back?

 

[salman85]

GK -Buffon

RB -Maicon
CB -Chielleni
CB -Vidic
LB -Bale

MR -Krasic
MC -Aquilani
MC -Alonso
ML -Robben

FC -Cassano
FC -Trezeguet

 

[Tom Halsey]

Schmeichel

Nev
Irwin
Bruce
Vidic

Ronnie
Giggseh
Scholes
Keane

Ole
King Eric

I'd be surprised if its changed much.

 

[BoyBrumby]

rassclath, a wa diss. Cole should go & shoot up all yall. Stop the dumb hate..

Seems Ashley reads CW.

 

[sledger]

BTW, reading back through this thread makes mr miss Aussie, whens he due back?

Not for another annum and a half iirc, thank god.

 

[wpdavid]

Martyn

Payne
Evans
Cannon
Sansom

Taylor
Thomas
Murphy
Rogers

Wright
Swindlehurst

 

[BoyBrumby]

Palace fan?

Team of the 80s, etc.

 

[wpdavid]

Palace fan?

Team of the 80s, etc.

Yup. Team of the 80s was always a silly tag, not least as everyone knew that the team of the 80s was going to still be Liverpool. But the speed of our decline in 1980/81 still came as a surprise. The 1990/91 team was actually far superior - 3rd in the old 1st division was by far our best end of season position - but that went downhill sharpish too. Didn't help that your lot kept pinching our best players: Sansom in 1980, Wright in 1991.

Beyond that, it's occasional highlights in the 1970s. The Peter Taylor inspired cup run in 1976, and putting five past Man. Utd in 1972, with Don Rogers at the absolute peak of his powers. I was there for that, fwiw.

 

[BoyBrumby]

We did give you Clive Allen, tbf and very sportingly actually paid cash money for Eddie McGoldrick.

Was devastated when you couldn't hang on versus ManUre in (IIRC) 1990 so must've been genuinely heart-breaking for a fan. Again, if memory serves it was Wrighty's first game back after a broken leg and he bagged a couple as sub.

Fergie's first trophy for the Evil Empire too. Sigh.

 

[wpdavid]

We did give you Clive Allen, tbf and very sportingly actually paid cash money for Eddie McGoldrick.

Was devastated when you couldn't hang on versus ManUre in (IIRC) 1990 so must've been genuinely heart-breaking for a fan. Again, if memory serves it was Wrighty's first game back after a broken leg and he bagged a couple as sub.

Fergie's first trophy for the Evil Empire too. Sigh.

All true. Unfortunately, Allen's claim to fame at the Palace was that goal against Coventry which the ref thought had hit the woodwork when in fact it bounced back out of the goal after hitting the stancheon. No wonder he didn't see the point in bothering after that.

As for the 1990 cup final, yup, we should have won the first game. Especially as you know full well as a Palace fan that these occasions aren't going to happen again in your lifetime. The team from 12 months later would definitely have held on for the win, with Andy Thorne and Eric Young looking after central defence.

We never did a thing against Arsenal though. I remember our last game of the 1992/93 season was at Highbury, needing Southampton to beat Oldham unless we got something at your place. Le Tissier got a hat-trick, but Oldham still won. Naturally we didn't trouble the scorers and down we went. Other than that, I remember Wright's return to Selhurst Park - equally naturally he scored the winner. He was a seriously good player.

 

[Nate]

So you still like Ireland, Sm00tang?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Ja

 

[Nate]

GK - Pepe Reina
RB - Luke Wilkshere
RCB - Jamie Carragher
LCB - Lúcio
LB - Fabio Aurelio
RM - David Bentley
CM - Jack Cork
CM - Raul Meireles
LM - Dario Vidosic
CF - Diego
ST - Mathew Leckie

Somehow forgot about Kolarov. Get him in there.

 

[Nate]

GK - Pepe Reina
RB - Martin Kelly
RCB - Jamie Carragher
CB - Lúcio
LCB - Daniel Agger
LB - Aleksandar Kolarov
RCM - David Bentley
CM - Jack Cork
LCM - Dario Vidosic
CF - Steven Gerrard
ST - Mathew Leckie

12th man - Charlie Adam

 

[vic_orthdox]

Pilkssssss.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

GK: Joe Hart (won me over Shay)

LB: Aleksandar Kolarov (***iest man alive not named Nathan Patrick)
LCB: Sylvain Distin (kept us in the Premier League for 2 seasons in a row)
RCB: Richard Dunne (c) (as above)
RB: Micah Richards (beast)

DM: Nigel de Jong (could work for the Mafia)

LAM: David Silva (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)
RAM: Sergio Aguero (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)

Second Striker: Mateja Kezman (Batman baby)
Front Man: Edin Dzeko (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)

 

[sledger]

Arsenal from 03/04.

+ Kun.

 

[Uppercut]

GK: Joe Hart (won me over Shay)

LB: Aleksandar Kolarov (***iest man alive not named Nathan Patrick)
LCB: Sylvain Distin (kept us in the Premier League for 2 seasons in a row)
RCB: Richard Dunne (c) (as above)
RB: Micah Richards (beast)

DM: Nigel de Jong (could work for the Mafia)

LAM: David Silva (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)
RAM: Sergio Aguero (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)

Second Striker: Mateja Kezman (Batman baby)
Front Man: Edin Dzeko (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)

Only ten men. I presume that's because Balotelli's been sent off again.

 

[Nate]

pilkssssss.

gk: Joe hart (won me over shay)

lb: Aleksandar kolarov (***iest man alive not named nathan patrick)
lcb: Sylvain distin (kept us in the premier league for 2 seasons in a row)
rcb: Richard dunne (c) (as above)
rb: Micah richards (beast)

dm: Nigel de jong (could work for the mafia)

lam: David silva (are you shocked? You shouldn't be)
ram: Sergio aguero (are you shocked? You shouldn't be)

second striker: Mateja kezman (batman baby)
front man: Edin dzeko (are you shocked? You shouldn't be)

kun

+1!