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Neil Witherow

Palace Blog

Neil Witherow, editor of www.palace-echo.net, writes his exclusive blog for the South London Press.

Blog Entries:

Tuesday, 08/Dec/2009

I’m sure you’ve all seen the climax to the Italian Job, where the coach hangs off the Alpine precipice.

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Monday, 17/Aug/2009

TWENTY-NINE years ago, Clive Allen scored a perfectly good goal for Palace in a league game against Coventry.

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Tuesday, 21/Jul/2009

ARRIVING in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for the encounter with Harrisburg City Islanders, we are greeted with signs boldly proclaiming 'A World Class Soccer match!'

Our travelling party wonders aloud who else might playing there.

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Wednesday, 15/Jul/2009

AND so the story begins… the close season passed by in a blur and now we find ourselves already two pre-season games in to the 2009/10 campaign and it's a case of so far, so good.

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Thursday, 11/Jun/2009

ACCORDING to the closing remarks made on ITV’s (frankly awful) coverage of the England v Andorra game, the 2008/09 season has now officially ended.

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Wednesday, 01/Apr/2009

I WAS disappointed to read in the South London Press that it would be unlikely Palace could afford to make a permanent move for Anthony Stokes.

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Thursday, 19/Feb/2009

IT'S been a funny couple of weeks without a Palace fix.

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Wednesday, 28/Jan/2009

Neil the Eagle’s ‘Terrible 20’ - the answers

Sorry they’ve been a while coming!

1.

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Monday, 26/Jan/2009

LIFE begins at 40.

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Sunday, 21/Dec/2008

AND in my final blog of 2008, a little bit of festive fun…

Neil the Eagle’s ‘Terrible 20’…

1.


Thursday, 18/Dec/2008

DEAR Santa,

As the year draws to a close, things have been looking up of late and so, in hopeful mood, buoyed by a festively large tot of Dalmore, I’ve started to write my Christmas list:

1.

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Thursday, 20/Nov/2008

THIS weekend, we face Bristol City, for the fifth time in this calendar year and, barring postponement, they also will be another match before 2008 is out.


Friday, 07/Nov/2008

LONG time, no blog.

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Friday, 03/Oct/2008

WHAT makes a proper football rivalry? I’m talking about an enduring abhorrence based on mutual loathing here, not simply the issue of local bragging rights or as a result of recent perceived injustices.

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Wednesday, 24/Sep/2008

JUST when I hoped we might have turned the corner, Saturday brought me back down to earth with a bang.

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Thursday, 04/Sep/2008

DUE to a technical fubar, last week’s blog entry disappeared up its own fundament, much like our defence at Leeds.

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Monday, 18/Aug/2008

MY MISSUS loves the Olympics.

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Friday, 08/Aug/2008

MY DEAR old dad, God rest his soul, was quite adamant: pre-season friendlies are meaningless.

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Thursday, 07/Aug/2008

ONE of the joys of pre-season, for me at least, is the chance to check out the youngsters coming up through the academy ranks.

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Tuesday, 29/Jul/2008

IN AN unusual pre-season move, the whole club decamped to the West Country last week.

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Monday, 21/Jul/2008

A WEEK into the pre-season and I write this gazing out over an amazing sea vista in North Cornwall, bathed in glorious sunshine.

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Friday, 11/Jul/2008

£700,000 - are you sure? My thoughts on the John Bostock tribunal are simply unprintable.

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Tuesday, 01/Jul/2008

BEFORE Euro 2008, you would have to go back 24 years to find a European Championship or World Cup without a former or current Palace player named in at least one of the squads.

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Friday, 27/Jun/2008

THE publication of the new fixtures is always a bit of a high point of close season for me and, I suspect, a good many others.

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Monday, 19/May/2008

AND so our rollercoaster season ends.

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