Terrace Talk: Man United - Eternal hope is the curse of the football man

Whenever United play Palace these days, I always find myself thinking of the loyal Irish Examiner reader out in Clonakilty once described to me as “the only Eagles fan in Ireland”. (Hello there, James.)

He’s a man ‘approaching fullest maturity’, as one might politely say, who will have seen a lot of Palace’s best displays going back decades.