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Vetch Field
Vetch Field - Swansea
Swansea City
2 – 1
Crystal Palace
Monday 14 January 1980
FA Cup Rnd 3
D W W L L
Recent record
W D L L L
SWANSEA CITY
CRYSTAL PALACE
Starting XI
Starting XI
1979
/80

DT92 Members at this game:

Jackbaggie
49

FA Cup second replay at a neutral (?) ground, Ninian Park. Went with my mum and dad on a coach, snowy day if I remember correctly, and a history mock O level the next day. Crystal Palace had been promoted to the old First Division the season before, with Terry Venables the manager, and his predicted ''team of the eighties''. Swansea beat the ''team of the eighties'' that night, and were themselves promoted from Division Two the following season to join the top league. Good but scary atmosphere - hooligasnism was rife in those days. Sadly, a Swansea City fan was stabbed and killed by a Palace supporter at this game.