A long day out and another defeat
The response to the 5-0 home defeat proved to be another defeat yesterday with Crystal Palace beating us 3-0 at Selhurst Park with three goals in eleven minutes just as we went into the final quarter of the game.
It was a game that we had to play with ten men from the 35th minute when Josh Brownhill became the fifth Burnley player to receive a red card this season and just as we were beginning to think that our stoic defending might just win us a point.
Selhurst Park always proves to be on of, if not the most, difficult of grounds to reach by road and again there were late supporters group coaches yesterday. We?ve long given up trying to drive there and yesterday?s journey was via two cars and a train. Car number one picked me up at 7 a.m. for the first part of the journey to Halifax via a pick up in Barrowford. There, a change of car, made the journey, with one more pick up at Worksop, to St Albans from where we took the direct train to Norwood Junction. We took in a quick visit to the fanzone outside the main stand before making our way round to the Arthur Waite stand and to our standing area for the afternoon. We had by then heard the team news and it was as expected with Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson coming in for the injured Aaron Ramsey and with Charlie Taylor replacing Hannes Delcroix at full back. Delcroix was on the bench that saw Hjalmar Ekdal return to fill the other space left by the two starting players.
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