With Crystal Palace legend Geoff Thomas turning 55 today, we've taken a look back at the iconic 1989 season with the Palace programme's chat in 'Glory Years', exploring the relationships and moments that defined the campaign.
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.