Official Site of Crystal Palace · Jun 3, 2019
Geoff Thomas reveals secret behind Wright and Bright partnership
With Crystal Palace's promotion-earning victory over Blackburn Rovers falling on this day in 1989, we've taken a look back at that iconic season with the Palace programme's chat with legendary captain Geoff Thomas for 'Glory Years'.
A big change ahead of the 1988/89 season saw Jim Cannon depart, what did you make of that?
On the last day of the previous season we just missed out on the play-offs because we were dependent on Millwall’s result. You could tell that Steve Coppell was looking for a bit of a changing of the guard and even though Jim was putting performances in week in and week out, his departure was more a statement from Steve.