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Cyrille fires past future Baggie Paul Barron to secure three points at Selhurst Park, 4th October 1980

We all go down, we all go down, we all go down together. The journey that began eight years ago, and has lasted most of this decade, comes to an end on Sunday afternoon at Selhurst Park with what may be Big Dave's last game at the helm. On the day we commenced this spell in the Prem with a 6-0 hammering at Stamford Bridge, Darren Moore was still in his playing career at Burton Albion. Few of us had heard the names Peter Odemwingie or Saido Berahino. Twenty-year-old Salomon Rondon had just made his debut in the Spanish top flight, while lifelong Albion fan Sam Field had just celebrated his twelfth birthday.

It's been a long and not entirely happy voyage to this sorry conclusion, but we've had our pride restored in recent weeks, and can still avoid finishing bottom. If this is the end for Big Dave in the dugout as well, then it'd be great to see him finish his time in charge unbeaten, too. We know that Roy is a professional and we'll get no favours from him, but here's hoping we can get the better of Palace on Sunday, as a statement of intent that in twelve months' time, we'll all once again be going up together.