Glory Years: Jim Cannon recalls amusing John Burridge tale

All this week, as we look forward to welcoming our heroes from 68/69, 78/79 and 88/89 back to Selhurst Park for the Everton game this Saturday, Crystal Palace will be looking back at the anniversaries of those three glorious promotion campaigns for the Eagles.

To kick start the trip down memory lane of the famous 1978/79 promotion, we caught up with Jim Cannon to relive some of those magical moments.

You’d been at the club for six years before the promotion season, could you sense something was brewing?

I made my debut in 1973 when Malcolm Allison first arrived but it was a time of struggle as we were relegated twice to the Third Division. It was certainly a culture shock because Malcolm gave…