‘Everywhere was red and blue,’ proclaims Palace’s much appropriated Blaydon Races. The chant paints a brief but vivid picture of matchdays at Selhurst Park - ‘Everyone was running, All the lads and lasses, All the smiling faces, Walking down the Holmesdale Road, To see the Palace aces…’
The chant may have lost its popularity somewhat by early 2020 and, by summer, wouldn’t have been heard on Selhurst’s terraces for over four months.
Its description of colour and activity instead became a fond memory as Selhurst Park and its surrounding roads lulled without the buzz of matchday fans.