That's the Guardian binned then! used to like that paper
Real fans my @rse - real fans turn up when you're not in the Premiership. Palace's only turn up for the Premiership football then disappear again
Yes, totally forced. Spontaneity and response to the football being played is what football atmosphere is all about for me. The Euro model seems to be about stadium announcers orchestrating the fans, drums, music played to start fan charts - not for me but they seem to love it.
Each to their...
They also had the support of the club to do this in the first place. This may have been due to the board being so concerned at the poor showing from fans that they would do anything to get people in, which certainly doesn't apply to us and now they are not going to be able to control it...
Seems to be a lot of self congratulation among the Palace TV supporters (they never seem to be at the game...) over the noise generated at Selhurst despite not being able to fill it.
I understand that this resulted from a number of their 'match attending' supporters deciding they'd had enough...