Now, a 1 – 1 draw might sound a bit rubbish to someone who knows nothing about the subject, but to a Palace fan, thats something of a big result.

Arsenal have won the Premiership title count­less times, were top of the table until this weekend, and have a team whose collect­ive value is almost certainly higher than the whole of Crystal Palace — players, staff, stadium, the lot. Palace, on the other hand, came up to the Premiership the hard way — after just scrap­ing into the Division One play-offs. In fact, this time last season, we were staring releg­a­tion from that division in the face. We didn’t even get a win for the first eight games of this season!

So to get a draw there is a huge result. And by the looks of Soccernet’s match report we might even have won it! Rock right on!

We face Manchester United and Liverpool in our next two games — one in the cup and the other in the league. That’s another two of the biggest teams in the country. Thats the same Liverpool that inflic­ted out biggest ever defeat upon us all those years ago in 1990 (though we beat them in the FA Cup semi-final later that season) .

Bring them on!