All this week, as we look forward to welcoming our heroes from 68/69, 78/79 and 88/89 back to Selhurst Park for the Everton game this Saturday, Crystal Palace will be looking back at the anniversaries of those three glorious promotion campaigns for the Eagles.
One of Crystal Palace's finest ever shot-stoppers, John Jackson here talks about just how he joined the club in the first place and his career up until promotion in 1969.
How did you initially come to be a Crystal Palace player?
Arthur Rowe spotted me playing for a London grammar school against an FA youth XI made up of players from other London teams and he got in touch with my teacher, and from that conversation I ended up having a couple of games with the Palace reserve side aged 18.