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How can you not know how to spell Crystal when you're a Palace supporter?
What our opponents' fans are saying
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How can you not know how to spell Crystal when you're a Palace supporter?
robbiedee
Mama said knock you out
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yeah...and I'm guessing he meant ball rather than bowl!!!
Lighty64
I believe
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but not at home, its been something like 10yrs in the league
rossdapep
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My aplogies, I misunderstood.
stonecolddeanaustin
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That sounds awfully familiar for some reason...
Phonetic spelling. Accent.
Mr Pink
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Completely agree. I can't stand the other contenders but City have decent fans for the most part and play really exciting football on their day - and in Aguero and Silva, just what football is all about really - a joy to watch.
McFlash
In the corner, eating crayons.
- Oct 19, 2005
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I do worry about utd.
They've been playing some dire football and getting a lot of stick for it but they're still hanging on in there.
They're in a good league position, especially considering the football they've been playing and the criticism they've had.
They've been playing some dire football and getting a lot of stick for it but they're still hanging on in there.
They're in a good league position, especially considering the football they've been playing and the criticism they've had.
McFlash
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Snarfalicious
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I lump them into the Leicester category. I simply don't think they have much quality apart from Mata, Martial, DeGea. They're getting by on De Gea keeping them in matches. If that were to change, I could see them dropping down the table a little bit. They are on just as slippery of a slope as Leicester for me. And I don't see how they all the sudden start to click and make a title challenge. Simply put, I think they suck.
Timberwolf
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Same here. I seem to recall is was the same last season - they played shite football in the first half of the season but scraped results, then turned it on a little in the second half (that bastard 3-0 win still hurts a little) and finished comfortably in 4th. This season they've been notably worse, but I wouldn't be remotely surprised if they put a run of wins together and finished in the top 4.
I think in the most likely event Leicester will slowly slide out of the top 4 over the next 10 games (I know everyone has been saying this for months, but Mahrez and Vardy have finally stopped scoring, which is a huge loss for them) leaving us and Utd to duke it out for 3rd place.
riggi
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South of the river mate
worcestersauce
"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
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Just picked up on some of the bogey team talk and where it would be fair to say Bolton were a bogey team for us at one time, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal were not, they were just better than us, they were very good for all time we were shit.
Things have changed now thank Christ.
Sounds a bit like the Palace fans are a little bit in denial.
Things have changed now thank Christ.
Sounds a bit like the Palace fans are a little bit in denial.
McFlash
In the corner, eating crayons.
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I agree but it just worries me that they're still lingering and they surely can't get much worse, only better.
I love your closing statement though!
Mr Pink
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Worth nothing that our record away to Newcastle reads much better than at home to them in recent seasons - also I expect them to be comfortably mid to lower mid table by the time we play them - they'll have very little to play for.
But as others have said, having a few big games can be an advantage sometimes as well, it sharpens the focus. Its the bus parkers I dread most, especially when we're desperate for the win.
And above all, the 'tough' games arn't so tough anymore either, like you say anything could literally happen. United and Chelsea are not the forces they have been, actually looking forward to those games as opposed to dreading them.
Mattspur
ENIC IN
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I imagine they're saying they're not concerned about us because we'd never be able to match an acceptable bid.
spurs9
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That is true, and hopefully Newcastle will already be in holiday mode.
On the flip side, I fully expected Chelsea to be well on their way back to becoming a force again and we haven't won at Stamford Bridge for 26 years. I haven't watched them under Hiddink, so don't know if they park the bus still but they certainly have the players to do so and despite probably being mid table still then, they will be playing for pride still, especially against us.
Man Utd seem to be efficient against the teams above them, only losing to Arsenal and we are yet to beat them under LVG. They can be really organised in defence, hard to break down and have a top GK, so that will be just as difficult as the bus parkers IMO.
We have only won at Anfield 4 times in 69 league games (the last being 2011), so it's still a tough place to go and we have struggled against Liverpool in recent years. I really hope Sturridge is injured for that game (odds are in out favor on that one).
Something I don't think we will need to worry about, but worth keeping in mind, is that if we do well in the FA Cup & EL and make the final in both comps, that will add 7 games (doubling the amount of games we need to play) in April & May.
IMO, we need to be quite a few points, possibly as many as 9, ahead of 5th place going into the Liverpool game.
With all that being said though, this has to be the most unpredictable season I have ever known, but being a Spurs fan and experiencing what I have, I will always look on things with a slight pessimism.
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