Kevin Day, writer, broadcaster, comedian and Palace for Life Trustee, talks to Richard Foster about going to watch Palace away at Southampton in two memorable years.
Kevin Day harbours a simmering resentment of how Southampton ruined his dreams as a 15-year-old boy.
“During the glorious FA Cup run of 1976,” he says, “I was convinced it was written in the stars that we would become the first Third Division club to win the FA Cup once we had disposed of Second Division Southampton in the semi-final at Stamford Bridge.”
Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be as Palace rather limply lost 2-0 to the Saints after their blistering cup run before.