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Stockport County's Aaron Wilbraham on that Palace day in 2001

The anniversary of Survival Sunday a few days ago and now the 19th anniversary of when Dougie Freedman scored in the final minutes against Stockport County to prevent Palace returning to the third tier in 2001.

Palace have certainly had their sensational curtain closers.

Rather remarkably, there is still one player from that Stockport County game still playing in the Football League: then-future Palace striker Aaron Wilbraham was a 21-year-old leading the line for the club standing in the Eagles’ way of avoiding the drop.

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What’s even more remarkable is that Wilbraham has quite vivid recollections of that day.