{"id":368,"date":"2015-09-10T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2015-09-13T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T15:39:57","slug":"billys-blog-palace-post-match-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/10\/billys-blog-palace-post-match-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Palace &#8211; Pre-match thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The managers occupy opposite ends of both the trophy and the charm spectrum. Ours is a true gent with a superb silverware history whereas Pardew\u2019s only trophy was in winning the head butt of the year award in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>There are club similarities however, Maine Road was known as the Wembley of the North and the Crystal Palace was the home of the Cup Final before Wembley. Familiar traits; party gate crashers on Steven Gerrard\u2019s last game for Liverpool as was City at the Swamp on the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Munich disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Also very much like City, Crystal Palace FC holds many of the weird records except that they\u2019ve never won anything other than sympathy and thanks. Even the great Malcolm Allison took them down consecutively. Perhaps through a cousin of mine some of his DNA must be still hanging around Selhurst Park the way the club unexpectedly helped us to the championship by snatching a couple of points from the Scousers in that thrilling 3-3 draw.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t do badly against Chelski either bless \u2018em and another favourable dive into Malcolm The Great\u2019s gene pool this Saturday will be most welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\" alt=\"Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3\" width=\"80\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The managers occupy opposite ends of both the trophy and the charm spectrum. Ours is a true gent with a superb silverware history whereas Pardew\u2019s only trophy was in winning the head butt of the year award in 2014. There are club similarities however, Maine Road was known as the Wembley of the North and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}