The Palacetician
@glad-all-over
Crystal Palace fan since 22 April 1967. Matches Played: 5,279; Major Trophies Won: 3 (FA Cup 2025, Community Shield 2025, UEFA Conference League 2026)
Crystal Palace Trivia Time: #CPFC have never lost to Portuguese opposition. Which current league manager was a linesman for the 1993 match?
101 years ago, new #CPFC manager Tom Bromilow wrote to his hometown newspaper, The Liverpool Echo, confirming that regarding the new (1935-36) season "everybody here is as keen as mustard" and also to humblebrag about his top score of 68 in a cricket match v Croydon 'Busmen. 1/2
Top 20 #CPFC all-time rankings for appearances (subs on / off included) - weighted by tier / competition / round. Tyrick Mitchell poised to move up this season.
Full #CPFC England players in World Cup matches (Qualifying and Finals) all-time:
1926 #CPFC. 100 years later and Palace have now played 80 matches with five players sharing the same initial letter of their (last) names. Not yet a match with six. In order of occuring and total matches: W 2, H 28, C 28, B 2, S 6, M 11, D 3
Maxence Lacroix moves up to 12th all-time for #CPFC player World Cup Finals minutes. First Palace player to play in a WC Semi-Final but goes out along with Jean-Philippe Mateta. Yéremy Pino moves on to the Final.
Jean-Philippe Mateta becomes the first #CPFC player to win a World Cup Quarter-Final and the first to win a World Cup Finals match on a Thursday. Updated Palace World Cup minutes / matches:
AI tells me that an overwhelming majority (estimated at over 95%) of footballers with Spanish surnames use their paternal surname. Nine of #CPFC 's 11 such players have done this, with the two "mummy's boys" being Pablo Couñago and José Campaña.
John Lockton was an amateur with Corinthian FC. He played for #CPFC reserves but never played for the first team. He was a Surrey cricketer from 1919-26. "Knickers holding" has, for the most part, been replaced by "shirt pulling" in the modern game, which is much more manly.
#CPFC Selhurst Park : World War Two Bomb Incident map www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/subje...
#CPFC players in WC Finals by minutes after R16. Lerma leads, but is out. Can still be topped by Chadi Riad, Jørgen Strand Larsen, Maxence Lacroix and Yéremy Pino, but three of those possibilities are in the 'highly unlikely' category:
Lerma needs 36 minutes to top the WC minutes played as a Palace player. #CPFC players v Switzerland in major tournaments:
#CPFC Sarr leads for now, but probably not for long. Sorted by minutes played:
With the USA and Senegal playing later, here's a table with all #CPFC players in 'major' tournaments by minutes played with Chris Richards leading the way. Major: World Cups, Euros, Copas, AFCONs, AFC Asian Cups, Gold Cups, CONCACAF Nations Leagues and (questionably) the OFC Nations Cup...
Daichi Kamada exits the World Cup with two goals and leads #CPFC player (all-time) in minutes played:
At the end of the Group stage, not one of the 25 #CPFC players / former players / rejects / offspring involved in the 2026 World Cup is yet eliminated. Here are the minutes played by active Palace players in WC Finals all-time:
It's tight at the top. #CPFC players in World Cup Finals Tournaments by Confederation:
For a couple of hours at least, Guessand's 15 minutes for Côte d'Ivoire v Germany moves the CAF to the top (just) of the #CPFC player minutes at the World Cup Finals 'by Confederation' table:
#CPFC have played Away to Brighton and Hove Albion in October five time previously and have never lost.
#CPFC have never opened a season against Aston Villa, Hull City, Leeds United or Sunderland.