But that's because Man United have a massive income and have done all that despite the Glazers taking millions out of the club.
The opposite of what these Americans are supposed to be doing at Palace. So it's not relevant.
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The opposite of what these Americans are supposed to be doing at Palace. So it's not relevant.
That's right we think we're the "Whitehawk" of Croydon. And we've abandoned ideas of being renamed Croydon United or similar.
The bit in caps surely sums up Bloomton and Hove Albion, no?
Hillian1
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Streatham is nearer the Thames than Finchley I would guess. South London is essentially the SOUTH of LONDON.
And as for calling Brentford a local derby, what map are you looking at? For Bees it's QPR, then Fulham and ultimately Chelsea. They even had a bit of a thing with Wycombe Wanderers!
Palace was always the Millwall hate team until the mid-1970's, for proof read Eamonn Dunphy's revealing book about the 1973/4 season. Did Albion have a hate team before Venables v Mullery kicked off in 1976?
Bloomton it surely is. Who actually owns your ground? Who provided all the money for your wonderful training facilities in Lancing? Who's going to finance this hotel to be built alongside the AMEX?
Who basically keeps your club afloat every year? And who do you moan at when you can't attract the kind of big-money player who would probably get you promoted?
Bevendean Hillbilly
New member
Laugh it up tit. We all know that you have made it to the promised land. We all know that you are the ones playing the top teams, and winning, in the most watched league in the world.
We also know that it won't last. We all know that, currently, you are doing well, but form is temporary. When you (inevitably) slide out of the top flight we'll be there to laugh you out of town. And we also know that, one day, the tables will turn and it will be us in the top flight.
Sometimes I look at what you've done, the famous victories you've achieved and I almost, ALMOST have some grudging respect. Then I remember the bad smell that accompanies your club, the rip offs, the dives, the cheating and lies. And I just think that you'll come unstuck one day soon. karma. Innit.
Ermm perhaps you could describe what exactly your "cheerleaders" do and who they are designed to appeal to...Danny Baker?
BensGrandad
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In my young days, long before you emerged and jumped on the BHA band wagon because nobody else would give you the time of day, our rivals were and to me still are Portsmouth.
Stato
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Ermmm, perhaps I could if we had any.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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You miss the point. I'm saying that, Eamonn Dunphy aside, the other London teams think you are a joke and not local rivals. Over the years even Millwall and Charlton have decided that they can't be arsed giving Palace the respect of local rivalry. They ALL laugh at you mate. And you know it.
It's a real thorn in your side that you are left with Brighton as your big rivals because the capitals teams ignore you in your stripy pyjama outfits, Dave Clarke five, ultra bellends. Tits.
The more you insist you are a London team the more pathetic you look.
I'm not laughing, I just wonder why an Albion website has to subsist on the bile of supporters who have only ever had four years in the top league, a shorter time in fact than they had in the bottom tier in the last 50 years - check.
They had then a club-owner (Bamber) who rather than improving their historic ground (as Arthur Wait had the foresight to do in 1969 at Selhurst) just (presumably) took the fans' money and ran, leaving you with a pathetic rusting heap which was only suitable for a redevelopment.
Now you have Tony Bloom who at least and at last has given you a decent ground to play on. Enjoy it. While you can...
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
What is so wrong with being a Surrey club?
Is it because you see yourselves as cheery, cheeky cockerney geezers, and not the stockbroker, suburban, belt small time, provincial, club with fickle fans who were Chelsea, , Arsenal and Spurs supporters, and who will no doubt return to tthat allegiance when you fall out pf the top flight?
Is it because you see yourselves as cheery, cheeky cockerney geezers, and not the stockbroker, suburban, belt small time, provincial, club with fickle fans who were Chelsea, , Arsenal and Spurs supporters, and who will no doubt return to tthat allegiance when you fall out pf the top flight?
The Kid Frankie
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What cracks me up about Palace is they claim to be against modern football - but then they have a few hundred utter randalls behind the goal calling themselves ultras. Now I am only in my late 20's but I don't think there was ever noddys claiming to be ultras back in the day?
BensGrandad
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This is the same Mike Bamber who you were in consultation with to get a joint ground at various sites betweeen Gatwick and Hickstead none anywhere near Croydoin or Sth Norwood.
Bevendean Hillbilly
New member
An excellent point. The fact our ground was sold out from underneath us is our fault is it? The palace way is to run up huge debts and desperate creditors the jib the lot of them.
Brighton fought an honourable fight that brought us to to our knees but we never shafted anyone in the process. We spent years in the wilderness but we did it with dignity, earning the respect of every team in the leagues whereas you...well, let's not go over it again because it's just embarrassing.
You should have been flushed away with the other shit years ago but some sharp practice and double dealing kept you hanging on just long enough for you to slip through a crack into the top flight.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Very well said.
The bold bits have a particular resonance.
JesterVille is just a flimsy House of Cards.
They are doing well this year, but the certainty is that it will not last. A couple of bad recruitment decisions, and it all comes crashing down. How low will they fall is the question for the crystal ball.
And yet they think these Americans are going to choose them as their charity of choice. No chance, they are in it for the money, and the balance will be minimum funding to preserve the PL revenue. A very, very fine balance and when it goes wrong there will be tears - and it couldn't happen to a worse set of gloating goons
Stato
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"Took the fans money and ran."
They say you can't slander the dead, but it seems that you are going to give it a damn good try.
Forced out of the club in 1984, diagnosed with cancer two years later, dead two years after that, but presumably, using the word presumably excuses you from any responsibility for your unfounded accusations, which you could have confirmed were not true with one minute on Google.
It would probably be best if you left this board and just took a long look at yourself.
Miami Seagull
Grandad
What an outstanding post brilliantly sums up what Palace have become.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
A serious question for all the Palace on here who insist you are a London club, if you are, ergo Croydon is part of London
JSo how come three times in the last 15 years Croydon has applied for City status, and how would that work.
JSo how come three times in the last 15 years Croydon has applied for City status, and how would that work.