Crystal Palace

[Delboy75]

Actually had a search and can’t find a thread. Had a mild obsession for ages in theory they could become a very big club. Great fan base ( although I’m not sure exactly how big ) huge potential catchment in south london. A real hotbed of young players. Plans progressing to take stadium from 24k to 35k. What kind of interests me is if we’d ever see them as real rivals. You’d kind of think a North London/South London rivalry should be a thing. But personally I’ve never felt it in anyway. Tbh being born and bred in North London maybe I should feel some sort of animosity to South London, but I really don’t. May have made the odd snide joke about South London but nothing very deep. Although I must say it weirdly feels almost like another country. When you meet someone from proper south london feels like they come from another world. So if Palace ever became a really serious club, could you see a tribal rivalry that would match Arsenal Chelsea West Ham ?

 

[hughy]

For starters they need a proper rivalry. One with a club 4 counties away isn't going to cut it.

 

[Nine while nine]

For starters they need a proper rivalry. One with a club 4 counties away isn't going to cut it.

The rivalry didn't even come about because of Palace or Brighton. It came about because of Tottenham.

Terry Venables was vice-Captain to Alan Mullery in Nicholson's Spurs side, yet reportedly felt he never got the adoration of the fans, nor the respect of Nicholson that he deserved, in part because Mullery got the lion's share of both. When Venables took over Palace and Mullery Brighton, both with the same aim of promotion from the third division, there was bad blood between the two and the nascent rivalry between the two clubs intensified as a result.

Still, without it, we'd never have got Attila the Stockbroker's 1990 FA Cup Song for Palace, so I'm all for it. Attila called it 'Roll Up For The Donkey Derby'. He is, as you may have guessed, a Brighton fan.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I don't know how Palace feel about it, but Charlton consider themselves to have a rivalry with them.

I never really understood feeling animosity towards something based on geography though. Seems unnecessary.

Except for Lancashire, fuck that lot.

 

[sim simma]

Palace fans seem entrenched in their ultra culture with wearing black banging the drum and ramping up the sing along. For a lot of young lads that's what going to the football is all about. But when you're a half decent mid table team with no expectations it's easy to just go along and enjoy yourself. I don't know how much work they do in the community though cos crime stats show Croydon and Thornton heath are in an appalling state.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Palace fans seem entrenched in their ultra culture with wearing black banging the drum and ramping up the sing along. For a lot of young lads that's what going to the football is all about. But when you're a half decent mid table team with no expectations it's easy to just go along and enjoy yourself. I don't know how much work they do in the community though cos crime stats show Croydon and Thornton heath are in an appalling state.

I'm not sure a football club, no matter its community work, can be expected to clear up local crime. Unless Wilfried Zaha and Steve Parish are a secret crimefighting duo.

 

[muppetman]

I'm not sure a football club, no matter its community work, can be expected to clear up local crime. Unless Wilfried Zaha and Steve Parish are a secret crimefighting duo.

Made me think of a version of this.

 

[Gassin's finest]