Eagles Through The Ages - A Brief History Of Crystal Palace F.C.
Crystal Palace Football Club have been in existence for 120 years. For most of them, nothing much happened. Then, in May 2025, they won the FA Cup for the first time in their history.
Eagles Through the Ages tells the full story — from the club's founding in 1905 in the grounds of the original Crystal Palace building, through the wilderness years in the Fourth Division, the Malcolm Allison rebrand that turned the Glaziers into Eagles, the Venables era, the FA Cup final of 1990, two administrations, the fans who saved the club, the Wilfried Zaha decade, and the May afternoon at Wembley when Eberechi Eze scored the only goal against Manchester City and Crystal Palace finally won something.
Ten episodes. 120 years. One club from South London that refused, repeatedly and against considerable odds, to stop existing.
Episodes
6 episodes
Episode 6 Wrighty & Brighty — Steve Coppell, Ian Wright, and the Day Crystal Palace Nearly Won the FA Cup Duration: 30 minutes (1981–1991)
Steve Coppell arrived at Crystal Palace in 1984 with no managerial experience and a set of weightlifting equipment. Over the next decade he built something that had never existed at the club before: a team with a genuine identity, a style of pl...
Episode 5 : The Team of the Eighties - Terry Venables, the Birth of the Brighton Rivalry, and a Night at the Top of English Football Duration( 1976–1980)
Episode 5: The Team of the EightiesTerry Venables, the Burnley Night, and One Week at the Top of English Football (1976–1981)In the summer of 1976, two former Tottenham teammates were appointed as rival manag...
Episode 4: The Glaziers Become Eagles Bert Head, Malcolm Allison, and the Birth of an Identity (1964–1976)
For most of their history, Crystal Palace had been the Glaziers — a name inherited from the glass industry surrounding the Crystal Palace building. In 1973, Malcolm Allison changed that. He changed the kit, changed the name, and changed the ide...
Episode 3 : The Wilderness Years Two Decades in the Shadows of English Football (1945–1966)
Crystal Palace spent almost twenty years after the Second World War in the lower reaches of English football, twice in danger of losing their place in the Football League altogether. By 1958, when the Football League was reorganised into four d...
Episode 2 : Survival, Selhurst and the Shadow of War - From the Trenches to the Third Division (1915–1939)
Crystal Palace emerge from the First World War into a transformed football landscape — and a transformed club. The Crystal Palace ground is commandeered by the military during the war and never returned to the club as a viable football home; th...
Episode 1 : The Birth of the Palace 1861, the FA, and the Oldest Question in Football (1861–1914)
Look at a modern Crystal Palace shirt. The badge says 1861. It said 1905 for most of the club's history — and then in 2022, after five years of archival research by historian Peter Manning, the club changed it. The Football Association reviewed...