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- Villa Park 1990, our defining moment
- We're proud of you, we're proud of you, we're prou...
- Gabor Kiraly - the vampire keeper
- Level playing fields and how to create them
- David Bowie chart
- Tiny chinks of light?
- Worst excuses for missing a match?
- Sorry excuses for a sorry excuse for a season
- Exclusive: preview of a review
- How Palace defend corners
- Halfway up the league
- Whatever happpened to Brighton?
- Premiership Idiot
- An air of realism descends...
- What if? The Palace team paid homage to Lewwis Spence
- Overheard at Leeds
- The Assassination Bureau
- Cause for concern
- Rhyme and reason (well, not much reason)
- All together now...
- Bye then Jon Macken, thanks ever so much for your ...
- First impressions – an editorial
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Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye was among the earliest of the original wave of British football fanzines that appeared in the late 1980s to give disenchanted fans a voice. Hundreds of fans contributed to the magazine during its seven year lifespan although most of whom had never written before.
EE ceased publication as a magazine in 1994, but its replacement Palace Echo continues to this day and the philosophy of both fanzines remains unchanged... 'the more the merrier, feel free to contribute'. We hope we're open minded enough to welcome articles and works of art spanning a wide range of views and opinion.
The aim of this blog is to reflect the trials and tribulations of being a Palace fan, and its all-too-brief moments of unbridled joy, with sharp humour, an eye for the absurd and with a brief to rip the piss out of the Seaweed at every opportunity.
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Eagle Eye Books
Eagle Eye has produced two books about Crystal Palace FC – the supporters' history We All Follow the Palace and a collection of work from the original fanzine written between 1987 and 1994 Palace in the Big Time.
They are available from the Palace Echo Book Shop
3 comments:
I love this website. I wish Eagle Eye was still going, it is a ton more witty than anything else out there.
Be nice if the best bits made it into the echo
Seems that just now is the perfect time to ressurect the EE - you could hardly say we're still here through gloryhunting, or just here for the glamour - this is good old warts and all Palace, 2nd tier, raise our hopes one week, lose the next, just how I love it!
Keep up the great site
Dorking Eagle
Thanks, Dorking. The problem was one of time, which is why a blog seemed to be ideal for us – it's the lazy man's way of doing a fanzine. It means we can post rubbish up as and when we think of it (which might give us a little more immediacy than we used to have).
With everything else going on we just couldn't afford the time and effort of producing a fully fledged fanzine (not to mention that at least one of us, i.e. me, got a bit grumpy having to stand in the rain selling it rather than sitting in a nice warm pub before games).
Where it goes from here depends. I'm hoping it will take on a life of its own and that contributions will be forthcoming, I'm going to rattle a few cages for submissions, obviously there's room for comments as well, which might alllow to go off at tangents.
There's plenty of other sites out there doing a better job of covering matches, reports, scores and news than we can. The way I see this is to just have fun, and continue to develop that sense of culture and community that surrounds Palace. I feel it is special and something that few clubs have and we should enjoy it.
Just on the Palace Echo front, obviously Neil the Eagle was always close to the EE team in any case and generally speaking if there are good ideas worth developing for the Echo he will be offered them.
The 'statues' cartoon for example was offered, but wasn't needed for space reasons so rather it gets a run out here.
I don't know what will happen to PE after Neil moves on to other projects, but hopefully we'll enjoy a good relationship with whoever takes it on. We're all on the same side after all.
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