If you were to walk up from Selhurst Park in the mid 1970s, you'd find a greasy spoon cafe filled with lorry drivers and top-flight footballers.
The windows are dripping with steam and grease and, inside, Malcolm Allison is bellowing out for more salt and pepper shakers to demonstrate a tactical point with 11 'players' across the cafe's white table pitches.
At his side is Terry Venables, just months away from taking over as manager, and the local club's squad are dotted around eating "chips and bacon butties and ham and egg."
It's a fry cry from today's world of football, but Solly's Cafe was the place to meet for Crystal Palace's 'Team of the Eighties'.