No idea about this - the feeling is it was chinese whispers but that is just the speculation I have heard. Certainly no evidence at all that the albion did anything wrong, so why all the disgraceful deflection ? ???
A lot of groundless blame was pointed at the albion by palace fans and the FSF that were sucking up to them.
It was pretty disgraceful deflection to be fair - when the real issue that needed to be looked at was the behaviour of the palace goons and hoolies on the night.