2025-26: Crystal Palace’s Year of Miracles
This article was originally published in Penny Post. I’ve only been to two FA Cup Finals: both replays; and both involving Manchester United winning after previous drawn matches that they should have lost. In 1983 I saw them beat Brighton 4-0 and, in 1990, Crystal Palace 1-0. The fact that (a) I’ve never liked Man Utd and (b) the people who’d taken me to the games were die-hard fans of the losing clubs made the journeys back to London quite long ones. Crystal Palace was for some time a yo-yo...