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Old 9th February 2018, 10.35:35   #35-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: Wrexham v Crystal Palace 1977

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Originally Posted by GoJohnnyGoGoGoGo View Post
The goal difference issue was important at the time. Palace needed to win by a two goal margin to put us under pressure in the last game. Conceding the third goal was bad but the crushing blow was their fourth going in, as it suddenly meant we needed two points in our last game. I also remember a complete feeling of numbness lasting for several weeks after the fourth goal hit the net.
I could be wrong, but my recollection is that I don't think we actually necessarily needed to win that last game.
Positions were decided on goal average in those days and I seem to recall that the 4th Palace goal was important insofar as it meant that we needed to score a goal and not lose our last game.
So a scoring draw would have been good enough.............as I say I could be wrong, after all this time. Or it may have depended on other results going in our favour too.

Apologies for the double post.

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