Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Palace - The Once a Season Away Day

Even when we aren't in the same division, we somehow seem to get Palace away. And thank god. The hype leading up to this in our group was massive.



An epic drinking session had been promised.



A 1 O'clock start in the Spoons was in order where the Jelly Baby's where ordered:
As well as the San Miguel's (Can't argue with a quid a bottle!):Oh and a few shots of Jager for good measure.As with all Palace aways, there is only one way to get there. TRAIN! Even if it means getting back at silly o'clock.


Joining me was Jamie & Lil'Dev:Ched, Joe & Potter:A few tins of Red Stripe for Pauuul:Stella for Dave:I was clearly already under the infulence!It was a good journey and we had comical moments with dave trying cheds glasses on (Flying scarf too)Cheds reaction:NoLips Paul:Bit of Trainspotting sir?
We arrived at St.Panras. The home of London aways!Champagne Bar:Statue Photos:We headed to Leicester square where we would meet up with the group in Tom's car:We met up for a good ol' Maccies.



Bert, Lofty and Shaun where all in Tom's car:Casuals:Paul and Wee dave tuck in:Shaun's footwear for the evening:A short walk down the road to the Leicester Square spoons!

More Jager was in order:And More Miguel's!
Tom, Shaun and Bert looking slightly tipsyWe met up with Sussex Fox in the pub:As well as Fox in Essex ( Dave ) who joined in with a few songsLil'Dave has more beer :OThe night gets a bit patch here onwards for me after drinking Polish lager and Jagerbombs for a few hours. We left the pub in groups but just outside was Will Smith's premiere for Seven Pounds:We all met up again at Victoria station where we met FezAnd Monk:


And had some more drinks! We also met Alex somewhere along the line! (patchy memory!)
It was a short (atmosphere) train ride to get to Palace, Shaun has some time out to read the local rag:
C-Man and Smuts join us:
How we got to the stadium I don't remember much of either but I do remember it being very empty and cold.We weren't in the usual away end (Pictured below) so the atmosphere was horrifcally poor, much to my displeasure.

We met up with Lisa and co. from FT
A couple of my Barnet supporting mates joined me to, but again, I don't really remember much.
Sporoni did recieve a fair wedge of abusive, one-sided banter too, I've been told!


After a woefull performance from fans & Team we were out of the FA cup for another year. Ah well, at least we're doing good in the league for once! You can't have it all.
After the match is patchy too. Wee Dave & Tom's lot headed to Westminster whilst I headed to the pub somewhere.
We got the last train home which took a stupid amount of time to get home, so everyone was verrrry tired


We got back to Leicester at Silly O'clock and realised we had no way to get back to our villages really so we got a Taxi and stayed the night at Daves house.A good day, shit match. The usual.

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