Palace were most definitely the underdogs on Monday nights play-off game against Watford due to the unfortunate absence of Glen Murray, who scored thirty spectacular goals earlier in the season. The game ended 0-0 after full time which was a surprise as Palace played brilliantly throughout. Watford had the pressure

I still have to pinch myself just to make sure that it is not all a dream. I travelled back from Wembley in quite a daze. Even witnessing the events of that bank holiday Monday afternoon, it is still so hard to comprehend. Even watching the re-runs and highlights several

It was finally the 27th May 2013 and the incredibly long wait for the Championship play-off final had arrived at last. At 07:30am the alarm went off. I had had a fairly bad night’s sleep, went to bed feeling quite relaxed on the surface but inside my head, the cogs

Thank you Wilf (picture courtesy of @hulfie) It was a two week wait and what a long two weeks it was. Plenty of time to get over the long regular season and bath in the play off semi final result, at least that was what us fans were doing. For

Wembley where the drama will unfold … As football games go this is perhaps one of the biggest in world football. Perhaps not as fashionable as the Champions League Final or indeed the World Cup Final. But the rewards are simply immense. The winners secure promotion to the Premier League

It’s been quite a love hate relationship. More love than hate I must admit but I am proud to say that I have seen them all in some capacity or another. Since the introduction of the play off system in 1987, you cannot deny that it adds a thrilling end

Be honest Palace fans – who really thought we would be going to Wembley this season?! Even when we briefly reached the giddy heights of top, back in what seemed an eternity ago, I never really thought we would stick in the top six. That was not me being negative

 The scene was set in the first leg at Selhurst (Picture courtesy of @cpfcmarcus) After the tense viewing of the first game at Selhurst the build up to this one did not feel quite the same. We had lost something. Not a game but a player. A player that

It’s good to be here. The play-offs. It did look at one stage that we would miss out with our terrible end of season form. But Palace have a special affinity with the post season games so we should not have worried. An evening game is special at Selhurst especially

For those that follow my tweets, I fall into the category of ‘Holloway isn’t the manager for us’ – although I do feel, in his defense (as do many of the faithful down at SE25) that this judgment should be reserved until he has at least started a season on