1959 was far from a glory year for Crystal Palace F.C.
Following the unification of Division Three North and South ‘relegating’ two sets of teams in their league’s bottom half, Palace were stuck in the fourth tier of English football and spent two campaigns - 1958/59 and ‘59/60 - pushing but failing to earn promotion.
When Barrow travelled nearly the length of the country to face them, however, the south London club recorded their greatest ever victory: a 9-0 drubbing on home turf.
After a prolonged summer, the first rain of the month fell that afternoon after 10 dry days and, to the detriment Barrow, the floodgates truly opened.