The Palacetician
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Crystal Palace fan since 22 April 1967. Matches Played: 5,279; Major Trophies Won: 3 (FA Cup 2025, Community Shield 2025, UEFA Conference League 2026)
Croydon Common v #CPFC at The Nest, Selhurst Wednesday 10 April 1910 London Professional Charity Fund Palace won 1:0 (George Garratt)
Nathaniel Clyne's 6,427 days between first and last appearances for #CPFC is a club record. Rooke 6,144 Cannon 5,561* Speroni 5,279* Kember 5,152 Dawes F 4,966* Zaha 4,795 Long 4,749* Ward J 4,662* Freedman 4,560 * One single spell with the club
Crystal Palace Trivia Time: #CPFC have never lost to Portuguese opposition. Which current league manager was a linesman for the 1993 match?
There are 30 days in the calendar when no #CPFC player or manager is known to have been born. In the final 10 days of July there are four: 22nd, 23rd, 27th and 31st, with another five in August. Relative Age Effect.
101 years ago, new #CPFC manager Tom Bromilow wrote to his hometown newspaper, The Liverpool Echo, confirming that regarding the new (1935-36) season "everybody here is as keen as mustard" and also to humblebrag about his top score of 68 in a cricket match v Croydon 'Busmen. 1/2
Top 20 #CPFC all-time rankings for appearances (subs on / off included) - weighted by tier / competition / round. Tyrick Mitchell poised to move up this season.
Maybe it's me, but I'm just not seeing the resemblance
The +/- for full #CPFC players at World Cup Finals before 2026 was -9 (Jedinak -6, Ayew -3, Andersen -2, Berhalter +1, Milivojević +1). Post-2026 it is +10 (Lerma +4, Muñoz +4, Richards +4, Kamada +3, Henderson +2, Riad +2, Mateta +1, Pino +1, Sarr +1, Strand Larsen -3).
By "the only previous time that a #CPFC goalkeeper conceded four goals in a game won 6:4" I, of course, meant first-team, competitive game because as many of you will no doubt point out, Dean Greygoose also achieved this in the 1987 Gravelines Tournament against Grand Synthe...
The only previous time that a #CPFC goalkeeper conceded four goals in a game won 6:4 was on Wednesday, 22 March 1939 when Palace defeated holders Reading in a Division Three (South Section) Cup Quarter-Final Replay at Selhurst Park in front of 2,071 fans.
In World Cup Finals matches, two countries have won after being 0:3 down: 1954 Switzerland 7:5 v Austria 1966 Portugal 5:3 v North Korea
England concede three goals in a quarter for the first time in 82 WC Finals matches.
England score four goals in a half for only the second time in 82 WC Finals matches (led 5:0 v Panama at HT in 2018). London born players have now scored 30% of England goals in WC Finals. Saka joins Geoff Hurst on 5, tied 3rd all-time for ENG.
Dean Henderson becomes #CPFC's 19th World Cup Finals player all-time, and 39th in all major competitions. Henderson is the second Palace player to play in a Third Place game - Ruben Loftus-Cheek played 45 minutes in 2018 v Belgium (L 0:2).
1926 #CPFC. 100 years later and Palace have now played 80 matches with five players sharing the same initial letter of their (last) names. Not yet a match with six. In order of occuring and total matches: W 2, H 28, C 28, B 2, S 6, M 11, D 3
Under Oliver Glasner, only one #CPFC player made a winning debut in a Premier League match.
No one cares, but England's 14 goals in this World Cup (with one match to come) beats the previous record of 13 in 2022, and not one was scored by a player with an English club. Other double figure WCs - 12 in 2018 and 11 in 1966.
Maxence Lacroix moves up to 12th all-time for #CPFC player World Cup Finals minutes. First Palace player to play in a WC Semi-Final but goes out along with Jean-Philippe Mateta. Yéremy Pino moves on to the Final.
Jean-Philippe Mateta becomes the first #CPFC player to win a World Cup Quarter-Final and the first to win a World Cup Finals match on a Thursday. Updated Palace World Cup minutes / matches:
AI tells me that an overwhelming majority (estimated at over 95%) of footballers with Spanish surnames use their paternal surname. Nine of #CPFC 's 11 such players have done this, with the two "mummy's boys" being Pablo Couñago and José Campaña.
Óscar Mingueza becomes the fourth current #CPFC player born in Spain, the eighth all-time, and the first Catalan.
John Lockton was an amateur with Corinthian FC. He played for #CPFC reserves but never played for the first team. He was a Surrey cricketer from 1919-26. "Knickers holding" has, for the most part, been replaced by "shirt pulling" in the modern game, which is much more manly.
#CPFC Selhurst Park : World War Two Bomb Incident map www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/subje...
#CPFC players in WC Finals by minutes after R16. Lerma leads, but is out. Can still be topped by Chadi Riad, Jørgen Strand Larsen, Maxence Lacroix and Yéremy Pino, but three of those possibilities are in the 'highly unlikely' category:
#CPFC players in WC Finals by minutes after R16. Lerma leads, but is out. Can still be topped by Chadi Riad, Jørgen Strand Larsen, Maxence Lacroix and Yéremy Pino, but three of those possibilities are in the 'highly unlikely' category:
Lerma needs 36 minutes to top the WC minutes played as a Palace player. #CPFC players v Switzerland in major tournaments:
