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Category Archives: Football
Croydon’s list of great residents omits David Lean. Why?
The saddening/maddening thing about Croydon Council is that, when given some of the simplest of tasks in their attempt to promote the borough, they still manage to balls it up. Take, for example, this week’s half-cocked announcement on the council … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Athletics, Chris Robshaw, Cinema, Cricket, Croydon Council, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace FC, Danny Brierley, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Education, Environment, Football, History, Libraries, Music, Roy Hodgson, Rugby Union, Sport, Surrey CCC, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Arthur Conan-Doyle, Croydon, Croydon Council, Donna Fraser, London Borough of Croydon, Oscar, Ralph McTell, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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High spots and progress offer hope for Palace future
The football season for Crystal Palace had its usual share of contradictions: moments of pride, passion and the inevitable disappointments that fans have all come to know and – in some cases begrudgingly – love. THOMAS HUGHES, of Five-Year Plan … Continue reading
Roy Hodgson, Croydon and the “impossible job”
A former Crystal Palace youth player appointed as England manager? ED AARONS delves back more than 40 years to outline Roy Hodgson’s childhood in Selsdon Roy Hodgson, England manager. It’s a sentence that even the 64-year-old son of a Croydon … Continue reading
Dancing Palace fans raise £5,000 for Sport Relief
Nine Palace fans who strutted their stuff at half-time during the game against Barnsley on Tuesday have raised more than £5,000 in aid of Sport Relief. The fans, all but one of them men, donned mini-skirts and leg warmers, strutted … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Comedy, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Comic Relief, Eddie Izzard, Simon Cowell, Sport Relief
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Back of the net! Croydon FC offers Athletic fans free entry
By Andrew Pelling Croydon FC is reaching out in solidarity to Croydon Athletic fans to offer free entry to all its home matches in January to anyone wearing Athletic colours. Croydon Athletic looks to be doomed to drop out of … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon FC, Football, Sport
Tagged Croydon Athletic, Croydon FC, Isthmian League, Mazhar Majeed, News of the World, Thornton Heath
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Twitter exposes O’Connell’s priorities over £1bn incinerator
Earlier this week, Inside Croydon posed the question: where was Britain’s most overpaid local councillor, Steve O’Connell, when he absented himself from the crucial Croydon Town Hall vote on the waste incinerator? Only 10, handpicked councillors from the Conservative group … Continue reading
Palace’s League Cup draw revives memories of Cantona
From a loftier perch than usual, GOLDIE looks ahead to the end of the month, and Palace’s League Cup quarter-final trip to Old Trafford, offering a flavour of the promised land of the Premiership In 41 matches against Manchester United, … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Football League Cup, Manchester United F.C., Old Trafford, Palace, Premier League, Selhurst Park, United
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Court out? Croydon’s cricket fixer undone by a tabloid
The trial of the three Pakistan cricketers accused of spot fixing at last year’s Lord’s Test match concluded yesterday at Southwark Crown Court with prison sentences for them and their Croydon-based agent who orchestrated the fix, Mazhar Majeed. Majeed had … Continue reading
Palace begin to believe after the journey to Hull and back
GOLDIE’s feathers are ruffled: his eagle eye is not used to seeing Palace immune from travel sickness So it’s finally happened. A Saturday away win for the Palace. Other than fish, you have to wonder what was in the Humberside … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged AFC Wimbledon, Crawley, Crawley Town F.C., Humberside, London, The Football League
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Late, late show revives Palace fans’ great expectations
GOLDIE wings in after the opening three games suggesting that Palace might just take off this season I left the away terrace at Peterborough after the first game of the new Championship season in complete dismay, supplemented with more than … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Darren Ambrose, Dougie Freedman, Jermaine Easter, Owen Garvan, Sean Scannell, Wilfried Zaha
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