were formed as a professional outfit in 1905, they asked Villa for help in setting up the club.

The West Midlands club offered Goodman to Palace and he helped to appoint their first manager and also chairman.

[1] Palace were relegated from the Second Division in 1925 and in November that year Goodman resigned and reverted to his original position of club secretary.

[1] He retired in 1933 and subsequently ran a grocery shop in nearby Anerley, South London.

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