Thursday, April 07, 2005
it's Gray with the corner...
Thorn flicks it on..
And Pardew, Alan Pardew and Palace are in front again.
Yep, it seems like only yesterday but it's 15 years tomorrow since the greatest football match the world has ever seen. The greatest day ever no less. Crystal Palace 4 Liverpool 3. The same Liverpool that 8 months earlier had beaten us 9-0.
Mark Bright's vest, John Pemberton's crazy run up the wing, only Malcolm Allison reckoning we had a chance, Ian Wright rushing onto the pitch with his leg in plaster, Andy Gray pushing the policeman out the way as he celebrated. I could go on....
Nigel Martyn, John Pemberton, Richard Shaw, Andy Thorn, Gary O'Reilly, Geoff Thomas, Andy Gray, Phil Barber, Alan Pardew, Mark Bright, John Salako and of course Stevie Coppell... We salute you..
Elsewhere we made it to Indonesia with Bali the first port of call. Only having 36 hours here before flying east to Flores, we stayed in the tourist capital, Kuta. Absolutely teeming with brainless Australian self styled surf 'dudes. They've all got long curly blond hair like that guy from Neighbours, the really thick one whose name I forget. It could have been Home and Away. Same difference.
Anyway, we've spent a day dodging the grey skies and torrential rain. Plus catching up with the sleep denied us last night when, having gone to bed relatively late for us (11pm) we were awoken hours later by various drunken revellers returning home. One particularly gormless couple - I think they were Scandinavian - had to be paid a visit at 4am by yours truly. When told, politely I might add, that there were making too much noise, the stupid girl offered to... turn their bedroom lights off, 'Would that help?'. Silence reigned after I pointed out that turning the stereo down or preferably off might represent a more effective action.
And to cap it all, today we shell out a small fortune on a guidebook to Indonesia, which reveals our intended weekend destination doesn't even have telephones. So all plans to watch the Palace game on Sunday night have been rapidly downgraded. It seems merely finding out the score is going to be difficult enough.
And Pardew, Alan Pardew and Palace are in front again.
Yep, it seems like only yesterday but it's 15 years tomorrow since the greatest football match the world has ever seen. The greatest day ever no less. Crystal Palace 4 Liverpool 3. The same Liverpool that 8 months earlier had beaten us 9-0.
Mark Bright's vest, John Pemberton's crazy run up the wing, only Malcolm Allison reckoning we had a chance, Ian Wright rushing onto the pitch with his leg in plaster, Andy Gray pushing the policeman out the way as he celebrated. I could go on....
Nigel Martyn, John Pemberton, Richard Shaw, Andy Thorn, Gary O'Reilly, Geoff Thomas, Andy Gray, Phil Barber, Alan Pardew, Mark Bright, John Salako and of course Stevie Coppell... We salute you..
Elsewhere we made it to Indonesia with Bali the first port of call. Only having 36 hours here before flying east to Flores, we stayed in the tourist capital, Kuta. Absolutely teeming with brainless Australian self styled surf 'dudes. They've all got long curly blond hair like that guy from Neighbours, the really thick one whose name I forget. It could have been Home and Away. Same difference.
Anyway, we've spent a day dodging the grey skies and torrential rain. Plus catching up with the sleep denied us last night when, having gone to bed relatively late for us (11pm) we were awoken hours later by various drunken revellers returning home. One particularly gormless couple - I think they were Scandinavian - had to be paid a visit at 4am by yours truly. When told, politely I might add, that there were making too much noise, the stupid girl offered to... turn their bedroom lights off, 'Would that help?'. Silence reigned after I pointed out that turning the stereo down or preferably off might represent a more effective action.
And to cap it all, today we shell out a small fortune on a guidebook to Indonesia, which reveals our intended weekend destination doesn't even have telephones. So all plans to watch the Palace game on Sunday night have been rapidly downgraded. It seems merely finding out the score is going to be difficult enough.
// posted by courtney and pete @ 10:56 
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As I said before ,probably a blessing in disguise that you'll be listening to "desert island discs" rather than the footie this weekend, although I'm sure Ms Love is gutted.
Anyway, in other news, you'll be pleased to know that I have contacted TRavelodge on your behalf. They are impressed with your 'poacher turned gamekeeper' episode in Kuta, and have accordingly agreed to lift your "worldwide ban" - perhaps there's one in Flores, with a TV .... stranger things .... er...anyway.
Keep it real dudes
KA Mortimer Esq
PS are you angling for a job in the BBC newsroom when you get back. Its only ever the BBC (usually at new year) that use the word "revellers". Just make sure you don't tell them that your best mates with Blair in the interview!
Got your postal vote sorted yet?
Anyway, in other news, you'll be pleased to know that I have contacted TRavelodge on your behalf. They are impressed with your 'poacher turned gamekeeper' episode in Kuta, and have accordingly agreed to lift your "worldwide ban" - perhaps there's one in Flores, with a TV .... stranger things .... er...anyway.
Keep it real dudes
KA Mortimer Esq
PS are you angling for a job in the BBC newsroom when you get back. Its only ever the BBC (usually at new year) that use the word "revellers". Just make sure you don't tell them that your best mates with Blair in the interview!
Got your postal vote sorted yet?
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: 12:56 pm
And you could have at least done us all a favour and won the final. Or had you already started supporting plc utd by then?
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