Mark Bright chats promotion and THAT game with Brighton

In 'Glory Years', an ongoing section in the official Palace programme, club legend Mark Bright spoke about the Eagles' promotion in 1988/89, and, of course, that remarkable game with Saturday's opponent Brighton.

Having missed the play-off places two seasons before, how determined was the changing room at the start of 88/89 to ensure you got over the line?

"It made the squad more determined, we’d been so close for two seasons. I think we all thought this was our time; we had a good young team and a manager who had learnt a lot from the previous two seasons. It’s easy to say now but we were driven and focussed on promotion that season."

At the end of the year, Eddie McGoldrick and Stan Ternent…