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.

Highlights:

Unofficial Champions of England: Liverpool 0-1 Bristol City, 25/01/1994

Brian Tinnion scores the upset goal

Liverpool were Champions but this was mid-90's Liverpool, always straddling that line between brilliant and awful.

This FA Cup Third Round tie was the third time these sides had met. The first had been abandoned due to floodlight failure and the rearranged game had ended in a 1-1 draw. Still, the replay at Anfield was expected to be a formality for the Super Reds.

Bristol City had other ideas though. Liverpool largely dominated the game but couldn't find a way through the City defence. Then in the 65th minute, the ball broke loose on the edge of the Liverpool area and Brian Tinnion was on hand to sweep the ball past Bruce Grobbelaar into the Liverpool goal.

Bristol City would hold on for the win which would have deep consequences as Liverpool manager Graeme Souness would resign following the defeat.

Bristol City were the new champions and were bringing the title back to Division One.

Match Hightlights: