“I’d not watched it back until I caught up with the re-run on Palace TV,” Shaun Derry reveals that the 10th anniversary of Hillsborough 2010 was the first time he had relived that era-defining match.
And you can be certain that our current Under-23s manager will be tuning into to Palace TV again, today, for the live watchalong of the 2004 play-off final against West Ham; another huge moment for the Eagles that Derry played in every second of.
That day, Derry would line-up in the Millennium Stadium on the left-side of midfield, a position he’d never played before but a role he was very willing to carry out: “I was just delighted to be pulling on the shirt,” he says.