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Blimey I haven't got time to wade through the whole thread again. However start with post #47 (when it started to go off-piste) and work from there. Post after post after post saying how lucky Palace were and how much better we are. However, no, in the bits I re-read I haven't seen anybody...

Well this has been any many-faceted thread, and it's gone WAY off it's original topic about whether Palace will be allowed to compete in the Europa League or not. However my post that you quoted wasn't just made 'stand alone', it was a reply to this statement: "Spurs have also had a ‘successful...

Yes, I do. I would gladly have sacrificed some league places for a Cup win. Ditto when we were in Europe; I wouldn't have minded finishing where Spurs did if we'd won the Europa League. After all you can't put '8th in the league' in the trophy cabinet, and in ten years' time only the statos...

Yes. If it wasn't for the fact it was a Bond film (and I've always had a soft spot for Bond films no matter how bad as my Dad taking us to see the latest was always something I looked forward to as a child) I might have claimed it as well. Not helped by the fact it was FAR too long, which is IMO...

Oooh good call. I missed it in the cinema, but being a big Python fan I was keen to see it when it came on TV as (at the time) I loved Cleese and Palin. Jeez what a load of shit. I can't claim it as 'worst film I've sat through' as I didn't make it to the end. Very very disappointing. Tried it...

You're right, but It's quite a feat though. Farage is managing to be Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn at the same time.

Oh yes. That and 'The English Patient' are probably the worst two films that I've actually watched all the way through, both at the cinema. Watching at home at least you can turn off if it's shit, I've done that more than once. Recently I just about made it through 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice', but...

Oh I take your point. For years on NSC (long before 2003 when this current incarnation started) I've banged on about taking the FA Cup seriously and was always shouted down. "The Cups are a distraction", everyone would say, "We're not going to win them so League points are far more important so...

Yes, like Man City if they've broken the rules they should be punished, and no pointing that out isn't 'sour grapes'. Agreed. However I think the point that @JBizzle was making is the Cup Final itself where Palace enjoyed the rub of the green. That's what happens in football, and moaning about...

That's very true. And also fans always ignore the wins and draws where the result could/should have gone the other way. Those points are seen as immutable as if the gods of football only ever work against us. EDIT: Some good instances summarised by @The Colonel in post #20

Yes. I'd swap our season for yours in a heartbeat and some of the straw-clutching on here from my fellow Brighton fans is frankly embarrassing. ("Ah but we finished higher than them in the league so therefore our season was better"). You had a good league season, a decent finishing position...

Oh yes, I remember all that very well. Apart from the Home Internationals and the ONE single televised club game every year (FA Cup Final) it was pretty much all we had. And no, I wasn't allowed to stay up for MoTD either, but when I was older I was allowed to watch the football highlights...

Exactly. You can't put 'Finished 8th' in the trophy cabinet. And unlike a major trophy you can't boast about it for years afterwards when (almost) everybody will have forgotten which also-ran position we finished in.

It is an outside chance, but I'm going to say 'no' simply because way too many stars will have to align for it to happen. We (obviously) have got to improve, and not only will we need all the Big Six to have less-than-good seasons, we also need the likes of Villa and Newcastle to be off the pace...

I think it's only permanent managers. Bob Booker isn't there either, and I think he did it twice.

Archie Macaulay (1966) for me as well. So are we calling that 31?

They're talking about 'Britain' rather than 'England'. 1801 was the Act of Union with Ireland. (Scotland having been 'unionised' in 1707). To show we were all one nation the red saltire of St Patrick was added to the union flag to give it the design we know today. But you are right about the...

I'm now going to have to pretend that I don't care about the FA Cup and say it's now a Noddy two-bob competition that no one takes seriously. So Palace won it, who cares? Much more important to get league points than win Cup ties. And worse, how we laughed at that ridiculous banner they had a...

Oh yes indeed! As that was the shirt when I first started going in 1966 it's always been my favourite design.

You weren't the only one, I wasn't too sure but yes, it seems to be true as it's in the Argus now. Yes, he was one of those players like Graham Winstanley who never let us down, but always seemed to be in and out of the team. I too was a fan, especially as he came to professional football late...