Crystal Palace v Blackburn Rovers 15-08-1992

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Premier League new boys Blackburn Rovers play their first Premier League game of the season. *NB* This coverage is NOT edited. Recorded live off the tv at the time of broadcast by pressing record and pause. Before the days of home editing.

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00:00Told it's about to be Blackburn's latest signing.

00:02First though, he was trying to beat them.

00:04Tony Gubber was at Selhurst Park.

00:09Palace leaving their keeper Nigel Martin to take that kick,

00:13just outside his area.

00:15That came off the defender, that'll be a throw to Palace,

00:18which Sularco will take, back after injury.

00:21Missed most of last season, as did the full-back here, sure.

00:25Looking for Mark Bright!

00:26Oh no!

00:27The nearest glance on that header from Mark Bright.

00:33And Palace's top scorer last season with 21 goals

00:37has taken just 37 minutes to open his account.

00:43Palace have pumped so many of those high balls into the Blackburn area.

00:48Something just had to come eventually from one of them.

00:51And the ball did appear to take a very awkward bounce

00:55right in front of Bobby Mims.

00:57which must have made it especially difficult.

01:06And the defender can hoof this one upfield,

01:09where Shearer will chase, having come out of the middle.

01:13Swap positions temporarily with Mike Newell.

01:15Cross for Newell a little long, but he can turn and look up, and Ripley's free!

01:231-1!

01:26Stuart Ripley scores on his debut,

01:29having been signed from Middlesbrough in the summer for £1.3 million.

01:33A perfect response from Blackburn with three minutes to go to half-time.

01:40And Ripley had dropped off Eric Young, and no other defender had picked him up.

01:45And you might also question Nigel Martin's positioning, because he does look to be well to one side of his goal.

01:51Oh, Palace benefit from the rebound there, this is Sularco, pursued by Price, and he's got three.

02:05And that'll be a corner.

02:08But Sularco has proved to be a real handful to Blackburn.

02:12And it looks like Chris Coleman will take this corner.

02:19And again, the penalty area is very crowded.

02:24Mims punches clear, but only to Southgate!

02:34And Gareth Southgate, his first goal for Palace.

02:40He's buried under an avalanche of teammates.

02:42Mims came a long way, but he only palmed it out just clear of the area.

02:50And Southgate steadied himself, before hitting it back perfectly into that top corner.

03:05Newell's header.

03:06This is Shearer.

03:08Oh, fantastic goal from Alan Shearer!

03:10That's what the money was for!

03:13And that's the sort of goal to ease the pressures of that £3.4 million price tag.

03:22A goal out of nothing.

03:23And after 67 minutes, Palace are stunned.

03:32And both of the Blackburn new boys have now scored on their debuts.

03:39Shearer hit that, he had one thought in mind, and it went right over Martin and in and into the crossbar.

03:44Shearer, Shearer, Shearer, Shearer, Shearer, Shearer!

03:47Shearer!

03:52The defenders winning that one.

03:55And will Shearer win the chase for this?

03:57comes inside John Humphrey

04:02how can he do it again

04:04oh he can

04:05Shearer

04:06two in the space of 15 minutes

04:16but are right out of the top drawer

04:18and he kisses the shirt

04:20and it may well have been a shirt

04:21of a different colour

04:22but the other clubs felt that 3.4 million

04:26was too much to pay

04:27and that's what they've missed

04:28he looks up

04:30picks his spot

04:31and Martin is beaten

04:33well this is well into stoppage time now

04:38almost three minutes on our clock

04:40but Roger Milford allows the kick to be taken

04:44and Paris has stolen an equaliser

04:46it's the substitute Simon Osborne

04:5020 years of age

04:52three minutes into stoppage time

04:55and seeing from that angle

04:58what a good goal it was

04:59from one of the smallest players

05:02in a crowded box

05:03and he's made it 3-all

05:05what a dramatic finish

05:10he's made it 4-yard line

05:14theLING

05:14and a lucky way

05:16get the job

05:16on the sideline

05:17and he's done

05:18a 300-year-old

05:19here in the next

05:20place

05:20and the

05:20look at the

05:21address

05:23and what a good place

05:24is

05:24and he's done

05:25a duro

05:26and that was

05:26an Ideas

05:27and the

05:28downs

05:29and the

05:30and the

05:31and the

05:32and the

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