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Palace Blog Neil Witherow, editor of www.palace-echo.net, writes his exclusive blog for the South London Press. |
Blog Entries:
Hang on lads, we’ve got a great idea... 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. |
By far the Greatest Team the World has ever seen... 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. |
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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. |
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Friday, 07/Nov/2008 LONG time, no blog. |
Charlton? Frankly, I couldn’t give damn… 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. |
Depression hasn't kicked in. Yet. Wednesday, 24/Sep/2008 JUST when I hoped we might have turned the corner, Saturday brought me back down to earth with a bang. |
Gremlins - on the pitch and off it 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. |
Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside 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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