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That and the fact that we've dared to LOSE a couple of games recently. Welcome to modern football. It's shit.

I have a solution for you now: Make up lies about evidence that doesn’t exist, to demonise football fans in the press and justify the reduced allocation and failure to prevent a few idiots breaking into one of the most modern sports stadiums in the country under the nose of the police. Nobody...

I think it's fairly unlikely that the police would issue a public apology for lying (sorry, accidentally recording something in good faith that wasn't true) if they hadn't actually lied (sorry, accidentally recorded something in good faith that wasn't true).

I'd love to know how you could log that you recovered 'knives and knuckledusters' and then suddenly realise afterwards that, actually, you didn't. It seems an extraordinary thing to happen. I can't imagine for one minute that the police could be LYING to deflect from their performance on the...

Oh what a surprise, the police were talking bollocks. "Made in good faith". Yeah right. Fair play to Palace for calling them out on this. I'm surprised Palace aren't trying to sue them for that, it was a blatant attempt to make things sound worse than they actually were, to deflect the blame for...

Ah but you couldn't hear the tone of the "if" that I said as I typed it. Which changes everything.

I'm not sure I had trouble believing it, I said I would be surprised if it was true. Which has proved to be a correct prediction, because I am.

If it is a bubble match, will they still reduce the allocation, I wonder?

Surprised if this is true, I was sure it was going to be midday on the Sunday. At least they won't be banning away fans altogether if it's on TV, the TV companies wouldn't want to show that.

Zero chance, I would imagine. After the police’s bleating about ‘the most serious disorder in recent history’ or whatever it was, they can hardly announce that this time they’ve decided to give Palace twice the allocation they had last time (although maybe if they did then people wouldn’t need...

Of course it was down to the Palace arsehats, I don't think anyone is suggesting the police actually caused the trouble themselves. If you answer my genuine question, rather than side-stepping it with a question of your own, then I'll answer yours. Actually, forget that, I will answer it. I...

I honestly can't believe people feel that unsafe around this fixture. How many people have been hurt at it in the last 10 years? Why can the Met and other forces successfully police big derbies without restricted number of away fans, but Sussex police can't? The Old Firm games have 7000 away...

It's not the worst idea in the world. Plus, it would be another sport that we invented, used to be the best at, and have now been overtaken by other nations who have taken it to the next level. So the same as pretty much every other mainstream sport.

Most animals like to fight, or at least are able to have a scrap from time to time. We're animals, we're no different. You can't switch off the way we are hard-wired. Some express this urge by competing in sport, some in business, some through computer games, some by actually fighting. I think...

It always annoys me when I read this. It's complete bollocks. Why aren't they football fans? Some of the 'faces' you see at the Albion that are always likely to be present when there's any bother having been going home and away for 30 years. How are they not football fans? Are the 15,000 extra...

This 100%. It is a bit pathetic how they don't seem to be able to handle 2000 away fans for the 14th biggest derby in the country. The Old Firm games allow about 7000 away fans and there are 4 of them a year! Spurs v Arsenal, Liverpool v Man Utd, Newcastle v Sunderland etc. all manage with 3,000...

If I were Sussex police I'd just say "Rules are rules, give them 15%". 4600 Palace come to town, all hell breaks loose, everyone agrees afterwards no more away fans at this fixture for at least the next 5 years. Problem solved. Short-term pain for long-term gain.

..........................Krul Schellotto..Goldson....Duffy.... Suttner Izquierdo.....Kayal..Stephens... .March ................Baldock....Hemed....... We still want to win this game, we need a relatively strong lineup.

Fa Cup draw round 3 Palace at home please. And give them the 15% allocation as per FA Cup rules. 4600 of them. Imagine we’d have to play it at 6am on a Wednesday morning.