Today marks 75 years since VE Day – Tuesday 8th May, 1945 – and despite World War II, football seasons we were still being played out during the period.
Club Historian, Ian King, provided us with the programme from the club’s final home game of the 1944/45 season against Brentford.
You can read the final paragraphs from our then-manager George Irwin, with his closing message particularly poignant.
This afternoon we conclude our home League programme with a visit from Brentford, old friends and rivals whom we are once again pleased to welcome to Selhurst Park.