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37- Scunny, Selhurst & Killer

 I'd never been to Scunthorpe before but just three-days after beating Liverpool, we were off to "Sunny Scunny" on a beautiful late September evening to face "The Iron" in the 2nd round 1st leg of the League Cup. Someone was blasting out dance music on the coach, I'm surprised Barry didn't tell them to turn it down. The locals were cranking up the noise as Leeds were in town again, they nearly has a memorable evening as I felt we were lucky to come out with a goalless draw against the Fourth Division side. We moved into October and I threw a sickie at work on Tuesday October 1st praying my  boss didn't tune into Midweek Sports special or something like that and spot me, despite proclaiming to be sick, bouncing up and down on the Selhurst Park terraces - this was our opening day fixture rearranged because Palace couldn't get their ground redevelopment finished in time, not that you could tell as it was a dump. We left about 2pm and only just made