Before Wembley Stadium THIS PLACE held the FA CUP Final For 20 YEARS 😲 

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Ian wright turned up for his Crystal Palace trial at this stadium, then was told it was the wrong stadium and he had to run to Selhurst park before playing his trial match. At the time he was just a builder.

I am 59, I remember the stadium "In the state its in now" in the early 1970s as many athletics meeting were televised ... it has not changed.

I used to live the Crystal Palace area, and have a love of football history, and the history of that park. The whole park is filled with history due to it being the exhibition area for the Victorians. The size of the original "glass palace" was stunning, and when it burnt down the UK lost one of its most impressive buildings. As you said, the site the stadium was originally the site of one of two lakes with the biggest fountains in the world. Other lake site now has the big square sports centre you can see in the video. By draining the lakes they created natural stadiums due to the slopes. A large water cascade ran down the hill between the two lakes. The clubs that played there had different "status" compared to now. Man Utd were not a big club at that time, and I believe Man City were the far bigger club, and won a trophy there early on. (Good evidence that these two clubs were not rivals at this point, and shared many facilities, and supporters. Sharing of supporters went onto the 60's) Other interesting facts I remember about the whole site, is that its where the first person was killed by a car, which had reached the terrifying speed of 8 mph , and caught people by surprise. You might have noticed the road down to a behind the stadium is very wide. It was because it's the remains of motor racing circuit built there. Had to be stopped as it was too loud. Bottom area of the park hosted for a short time an experimental underground pneumatic railway. The single railway carriage was shot along a tube by air pressure, or you the carriage was like a pellet in a air gun. Would have loved to have seen that. And one of the great film quotes happened near the spot you were stood above the stadium. It's where Michael Cain stated "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" Don't want to go down the rabbit hole regarding the history of the existing CPFC, but it's attempts to link its history to football played in the park before 1900 are disappointing.

Hey Ry! I am so happy you made this video. As in 2015/6 I completed my City & Guilds Horticulture Certification in that stadium as Capel Manor College have a campus and classroom facility in the main stand. You probably missed it? Crystal Palace Train Station attached to the park is cool too. Love the vest Pal 👏

my nan lived in south norwood, she remembers it burning down, she said the smoke filled the air for miles and miles

Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester held an FA cup final,too. It was completely demolished, so it probably wouldn't make a great vid.

Up the Glaziers!

Crystal Palace is very much run down. It was completely neglected after the London Stadium opened and all of the facilities are in a very bad condition. That report was put out in 2020 so let's have invested loads of money which I doubt they have because they still will use the London Stadium for athletics now the money is not there to fix it

121000? Doesn't look like it on the original footage

Do add “crystal palace national sports centre “ in description or title Rhy. So more people when searching crystal palace national sports centre on YT will see this. 😮 Wait, did you go into this for free?😅 How do you enter this crystal palace national sports centre? 5:54 yea, Crystal in South East London say they were formed in 1861 now. Crystal Palace in South East London done well being in Premier League for over ten seasons now.

Time to do the Oval mate and learn cricket. We’ll get you to experience other sports one day lol

Got to do the Oval next?!

Awe little ole united didn't win the cup till 1909...City did it in 1904💀

If a club disappears without trace for 30 years you can't come along and pretend you're the oldest Professional football team in the world. The Nigels really are special!

Used to live in Sydenham i have run at that stadium for my school, played football there and watched graham hill race on the track that runs round the stadium and crystal palace park, great memories

Love a Ry history lesson 👌🔥🔥🔥

Bury are now a non-league club, and won the FA Cup twice at Crystal Palace 6-0, and 4-0.

I live near Crystal Palace Park and I had NO IDEA about this!

One of my favourite RU-vid channels. Very informative. Reminds me of another football RU-vid channel "Footy Adventures" with Sam North.

What an absolute beauty. Football in Soviet style athletics stadiums is just so perfect. I don’t get why people hate them. Beats a big plastic bowl like the Emirates or that Spurs thing.

That stadium looks very nice bit like the tenerife stadium in pes like a bowl stadium

Thanks for this highly classy tour Ry.

Nice work. Love it . I ❤ very old football history .

Manchester United won their 1st FA CUP at Crystal Palace.

Man city were the first Manchester team to win the fa Cup in 1904

I hadn't realised that the modern athletics stadium is a modernisation of the old FA Cup venue on the exact same site and therefore is still the same stadium; much like how Deepdale still is, even the location of the pitch is the only unchanged thing.

What a terrible thumbnail, it didn't make me want to watch this video , I left a thumbs down just fir the thumbnail I didn't watch the video

The vest aside, another great video👍