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Not 1/61
The probability of getting Man Utd away was 1 out of a possible 4032 pairings. ( (64 x 64)-64) so those moaning we didn't draw them is even more ridiculous.
I agree that it's a great Cup Tie and a good day down in London at one of the best atmosphere grounds in the Premier League. We shouldn't win, but you never know! We shouldn't have beaten Steve Bull's Wolves, or Middlesbrough, or West Ham either!
Your maths is wrong. The chances of the first tie out the hat being Man Utd v Grimsby is 1/(64x63) or 1/4032. But there are 32 ties all of which produce the same outcome (combinations not permutations if my mind stretches back to school). The chances of Man Utd being drawn at home is 1/2 and We are 1 of 63 possible opponents, so I think it is 1/(2 x 63) which is 1/126. |
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Bit of a disappointing draw in a way. Was hoping for an 'easy' tie or a bigger money spinner. Not as bad as getting someone like Walsall though.
Still I'll be there. Subject to ticket availability.
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It's an omen....for a great cup run. I wasn't there, but well remember us beating Palace back in the League Cup back in 1965-6, and they were then Second Division while we in the Third - and that was in the days when the numbers genuinely meant what they said in terms of leagues. We then put four past both Bolton and Preston, who were also from the Second Division, and the atmosphere at those games was electric....and when we drew West Ham out of the hat with England captain Bobby Moore, and also Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst who would go and win the World Cup at the end of the season the town went crazy. Fairly sure there were around 16,000 there to witness us being unlucky not to gub West am, who were extremely lucky to go away with a 2-2 draw.
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What % of the gate money do the away club get?
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Away at Palace reminds me of many visits to this place in the 90s and early noughties. https://www.whatpub.com/pubs/CRO/11494/cherry-tree-south-norwoodAlways used to be a good laugh in there. Mixed Town and Palace fans. Says they don't allow away fans. Ironic when it was a Palace fan who assaulted the landlady's daughter there in 2012! |
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great draw, can't understand some of the negative comments. Prem League club, will be a great day out.
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It could be a lot worse couldn’t it?
My mind went back to the 70s when they came to BP with Malcolm Allison in charge. He took the team to the Kingsway and they wouldn’t serve him dinner unless he went and put a tie on! He wore his fedora at the match but I think he sat in the stand, maybe it wouldn’t fit in the dug out or maybe it was his head that was too big.
They had just come down to Div 3 and led us for much of the game before we equalised and Jim Lumby got the winner. Palace had at least one sent off and Big Mal went ballistic. I remember we had Keith Brown, another Nunsthorpe lad like Fordy, on the left wing and he might have got the other goal.
A game like that would make for a good day out.
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What % of the gate do the away club get?
Up to 15% subject to subject to the local Safety Advisory Group,police etc. Generally at palace its around 3700. |
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It could be a lot worse couldn’t it?
My mind went back to the 70s when they came to BP with Malcolm Allison in charge. He took the team to the Kingsway and they wouldn’t serve him dinner unless he went and put a tie on! He wore his fedora at the match but I think he sat in the stand, maybe it wouldn’t fit in the dug out or maybe it was his head that was too big.
They had just come down to Div 3 and led us for much of the game before we equalised and Jim Lumby got the winner. Palace had at least one sent off and Big Mal went ballistic. I remember we had Keith Brown, another Nunsthorpe lad like Fordy, on the left wing and he might have got the other goal.
A game like that would make for a good day out.
3 sendings off that game, possibly Alan Whittle, Jim Cannon and Mike Czuczman??? |
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Palace have a late ko against Wolves on the 2nd of Jan so a fair bet the game will be moved to Sunday.
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