『Episode 3 : The Wilderness Years Two Decades in the Shadows of English Football (1945–1966)』のカバーアート

Episode 3 : The Wilderness Years Two Decades in the Shadows of English Football (1945–1966)

Episode 3 : The Wilderness Years Two Decades in the Shadows of English Football (1945–1966)

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Crystal Palace spent almost twenty years after the Second World War in the lower reaches of English football, twice in danger of losing their place in the Football League altogether. By 1958, when the Football League was reorganised into four divisions, they were placed in the newly formed Fourth Division — as low as it was possible to go and still be a professional club.

This episode covers the long post-war obscurity: the re-election applications, the sparse crowds, the managers who came and went, and the particular culture of a club that felt almost invisible even to its own city. But it also covers the moment the tide began to turn — the arrival of Arthur Rowe, the architect of Tottenham's push-and-run championship side, and the extraordinary evening when Real Madrid came to Selhurst Park for a friendly and five thousand South Londoners watched the best team in the world play on their pitch.

Player of the Era: Johnny Byrne — the striker who emerged from the Fourth Division years and became the first Crystal Palace player to be capped for England.

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