Look, we can all contrive various scenarios to fit your argument. If we really needed a favour on the final day then of course, if needs must, unpleasant as it would be. They still dine out on "saving" us a few years ago when they beat Cardiff with a couple of games to go, after we'd Hughton'd...
And ?
Sure like all clubs there are decent fans supporting their local team. There is also an abnormally large section of them who are spotty black-clad dickheads who delude themselves into thinking they're in the upper tier of the San Siro every other week, and travel round with banners and...
Our views of what a rivalry means are fundamentally different. I always want to see them lose. You can always unpick various results across the season for it to benefit us, but where we finish is ultimately down to us, not them, just as it is for everyone else.
Like everyone else across the footballing spectrum (outside of Africa at least with those ridiculous online gloryhunting goons) I despise Chelsea. But my desire to see Palace suffer and decline still overrides that.
Anyway, looks like Palace have lucked out (again) in facing the SHIT Chelsea...
Its pass-pass-pass-THUMP
Bollocks is it. How can anyone on here watch Palace actually cheering them on ?? Behave.
We're good enough to look after our own interests these days without needing favours from that filth.