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Geoff Thomas reveals secret behind Wright and Bright partnership

With Crystal Palace's promotion-earning victory over Blackburn Rovers falling on this day in 1989, we've taken a look back at that iconic season with the Palace programme's chat with legendary captain Geoff Thomas for 'Glory Years'.

A big change ahead of the 1988/89 season saw Jim Cannon depart, what did you make of that?

On the last day of the previous season we just missed out on the play-offs because we were dependent on Millwall’s result. You could tell that Steve Coppell was looking for a bit of a changing of the guard and even though Jim was putting performances in week in and week out, his departure was more a statement from Steve.