While great players embed themselves into football clubs’ history like stitches in the fabric of a timeline, not every one is properly remembered.
One great player only featured 63 times for Palace, but would enjoy a career worthy of an icon’s legacy. He finished the 1949/50 season as top scorer in the role of player/manager, netted a hat-trick in a 6-0 triumph over Brighton & Hove Albion and received a red card as manager against south London rivals Millwall.
He held a solitary England cap to his name, battled his way up from Palace’s reserve team and played with the club aged 38, going on to continue his playing career into his late 40s.