Sunday, 17 September 2017

Unofficial Champions of England: Crystal Palace 4-1 Bristol City, 22/02/1994


Dean Gordon equalises for Crystal Palace

Since winning the Unofficial English Championship from Liverpool, Bristol City had retained it for four matches in games against Tranmere Rovers, Stockport County, Sunderland and Charlton Athletic.

Game 5 brought them to a swamped Selhurst Park to play table-topping Crystal Palace. It started well enough for City when Mark Shail nodded them ahead on 21 minutes. The joy was short-lived however as Palace equalised through a Dean Gordon penalty just a few minutes later.

Crystal Palace took the lead in the second-half when the Bristol goalkeeper made a bodge of trying to clear the ball outside the area and John Salako had an empty net to lob the ball into.
Then Chris Armstrong got a brace to seal the game for the Eagles.

Palace already looked good bets for promotion from Division One and now they were the English Champions as well.

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