Ironically, Mullery would later go on to manage Palace in — much to the displeasure of Eagles fans. Arriving for the second-leg the Crystal Palace were greeted with an unsavoury surprise in the away changing room at the AMEX Stadium with excrement all over the toilet floor. The Palace team accused Brighton staff of trying to put off their opponents. Palace went onto defeat their rivals and reach the play-off finals. At the beginning of the s, these two clubs took very different turns.
Crystal Palace got promoted back to the old Division One whilst Brighton spiralled down the leagues before becoming dangerously close to losing their league status, three seasons in a row the club finished 23rd at the bottom of the pyramid. Clinging on to league football, they moved out of their old hold, Goldstone.
The club had to play home games 70 miles away from Brighton for two seasons before moving into an athletics stadium, the Withdean Stadium, much closer to home, until eventually moving into The Falmer The Amex in Palace bounced back and forth between the Premier League and the second tier for a few years before meeting up with their old rivals again after an old year stint without a league game.
In four league games between and , they accumulated 14 yellow and three red cards, Gary Hart contributing to that liberally. So despite the absence, the passion was still there. The rivalry really burst back into life at the beginning of the previous decade, in one particular meeting, a dirty dressing room brought out the best in Palace in a play-off semi-final clash.
The story goes that when the Crystal Palace team arrived at the Amex for the second leg, the away dressing room was smeared in faeces. Yes, poo-gate was afoot. Ian Holloway was said to be fuming and let his anger known to the ground staff. Gus Poyet who was Brighton manager at the time had sent a furious email out but nobody ever came forward.
However, although there was plenty of rumours and speculation surrounding some players. A couple of years later Paddy McCarthy broke silence on the whole messy situation.
The validity of the story is uncertain, so, you can make your own minds up on that. Regardless, the incident spurred Palace on to a famous victory, unbeknown at the time the culprit was actually their own coach driver, apparently. The tie was at deadlock after a draw at Selhurst Park in the first leg, the Eagles ran out winners at the Amex.
They went onto the final to beat Watford, get promoted to the Premier League and have remained there since. They have since remained there averaging just over 30, in their impressive Amex stadium. However, a superb strike from Wilfred Zaha saved the game and levelled late on for the hosts as they shared the spoils. After 25 games the clubs are separated by 4 points and are both looking good enough to keep their respective Premier League statuses.
They meet again on 29th February at the Amex, in a game that will hopefully produce the drama this fixture is very much capable off. The African World Cup journey took its first major step in as Egypt took the honour of becoming With both bosses in place, the two sides met five time across the season, twice in the league and three times in the FA Cup, with Palace going undefeated against their new rivals across all five, winning twice and drawing three. In the summer of the peculiar decision was made to appoint Mullery as Crystal Palace manager, having spent a year at Charlton between the two clubs.
It was a decision which riled Palace fans, with many turning their back on the club and attendances plummeting. Henry Hughton, brother of now Brighton boss Chris, played over games for Palace in the s, but is perhaps best remembered for one unsavoury moment in a clash with the Seagulls.
His first season saw a away defeat to Brighton, however, the home tie ramped up the rivalry more than anyone would have imagined. And plenty of fans still do. Andy Johnson scored a hat-trick in a hammering of Brighton and sent Coppell back to the south coast facing accusations that he broke capitulated intentionally on his old stomping ground.
The Seagulls their moved to a new stadium in Falmer and welcomed Palace to the ground in late September with an unbeaten home record in the league.
The hosts led until the 80th minute, but former Brighton man Glenn Murray sealed a comeback win for Palace after late goals from Wilfried Zaha and Darren Ambrose. Yet the nouveau riche perception of the 30,seater Amex, a host stadium for the Rugby World Cup, has added recent spice to the rivalry.
As you would expect, this is a claim Seagulls fans reject. Now we have 21, season ticket holders at one of the pricier places to watch football in the division. Yet the rivalry has become a part of both clubs identity. But as a fixture, it has nothing like the bile and hatred of a tie, home or away, against our local rivals, Millwall.
Millwall fans, however, have more truck with former cross-river dock worker rivals West Ham United than with Crystal Palace. For Brighton, Portsmouth is too far removed and Crawley Town too new and irrelevant to factor as rivals. Is it a case that they almost need each other?
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