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Selhurst Park
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
 
League One
Attendance: 22,869
     
1-2
   
 
Watson 87 (pen)
 
Carey 53, Noble 92
 
     
 
     
 
 
 
 
2007
/08

 
Managers
View complete set Neil Warnock
View complete set Gary Johnson

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Carey and late Nobel winner in Play Off Semi Final First Leg (City win second leg 2-1 aet).
Chris H
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ian345
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Barney Brick
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Ronnabe91
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OTIK
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Ciderads
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What a day this was!   I had queued for over an hour at Ashton Gate the previous week (taking a day off work in the process) to obtain tickets for this match.  I had bought two thinking that at least one other person I knew would want it...but I was wrong.  In the end I sold it on the One Team in Bristol Forum to a fellow City fan.   The day was gloriously sunny and I ended up getting on the train from Twickenham in just my City shirt.  Not too worried about wearing my colours.  I changed at Clapham Junction and got a train to Thornton Heath station.  Enroute the stadium I had spotted a robin (which I took as a good omen) and a horse with a lucky name (which I put a bet on).   I made my way towards the stadium but had to wait at a pub on the main road for the chap who was buying my ticket.  There was a good number of City fans already in and around the pub and seemed to be no problem with Palace and City fans mixing freely.  After a few pints of cider with this chap, I made my way to ground.  Ended up joining Gareth Chilcott (former Bath and England Rugby player) and his entourage as they asked for directions to the away section.   I had seen Selhurst Park numerous times on TV before but it was very different being there with a near capacity crowd on a hot sunny day.  The away section was quite large towards one corner of the side stand.  Facilities were quite basic (the smoke coming out of one of the toilet cubicles at half time was laughable!) but you could get a pie and a pint pretty easily.  Away to our left was the big, double-decker home end with thousands of Palace fans singing there hearts out.  One annoying thing, when I went to move into my row was that the seat No on my ticket was actually covered with meshing as the crowd segregation was literally one seat and an aisle at this point.  My thoughts went back to the West Brom match! A fellow fan told me they were moving anyone with these seats to the back.  Thankfully a guy with a small son agreed to move over as his soon didn't need much room on the seat, which was great as I didn't fancy moving from my nice position about 10 rows from the front.   The game itself was a treat.  Palace started quite brightly and we had our hearts in our mouths once or twice.  City ended the half brightly with the better of the efforts on goal. Early in the second half a fantastically worked free kick saw Louis Carey fire into the top right hand corner and the whole away section went ballistic!!  1 up and as the game wore on we looked more and more confident that we would take a lead into the second leg.  With that in mind a mix up between Basso and Orr saw a bad clearance land at the feet of a Palace attacker.  He jinked into the box and Carey lunged at him.  The ref pointed to the spot.  Ben Watson converted and all that good work was seemingly going to go unrewarded.  The Palace fans to the right of us, who had been quiet all game suddenly came to life which saw lots of posturing and gesturing flying back and forth across the aisle as the PA system blasted out that stupid "Glad all over" song.   With the game seemingly over and facing the prospect of starting from scratch in the second leg.  A seemingly innocuous ball was won in midfield by Nick Carle.  The ball came to David Noble about 30 yards out.  With little backlift he shot.  The ball could not have been struck more sweetly and rocketed into the top left hand corner beyond the despairing grasp of Peres in the Palace goal.    The City faithful disbelievingly erupted into mass hysteria!  Seconds later the whistle blew.  The fans and players all celebrated, even though we knew that t
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