With Palace in FA Youth Cup action against Bolton Wanderers on Friday night, we rewind the clock 41 years to celebrate the last time the Eagles got their hands on the silverware.
Having beaten Everton to win the FA Youth Cup for the first time in the club’s history in 1977, youth coach John Cartwright was still able to call upon the services of most of his players again for the 1977/78 campaign, some of whom were already gaining plenty of first-team experience in the Third Division under Terry Venables such as Kenny Sansom, Ian Walsh and Vince Hilaire.