I'd be disgusted if we refused to do it, whoever the opponents were, even in the hugely unlikely eventuality that Palace would ever win a title.
As for the toilet trouble, the pathetic actions of one unidentified oddball are hardly representative of how the CLUB carries itself. Ask Parish...
To claim it helped them win the game is rubbish. We were 1-0 up and in control when Davis took out Murray, for what should have been the match sealing penalty. The ref turned it down, Murray limped off injured, and they stole the game in the last ten minutes.
The 'keep up' comments betrayed an arrogance, but COULD have been a joke. COULD.
Refusing the guard of honour smacked of bitterness and lack of grace. And no, there should never be a rule to make it mandatory. The whole point is that teams should freely CHOOSE to show respect to their...
We were asked why we don't like him. The guard of honour is why, for me (amongst other petty stuff). His refusal to do it is VERY rare in recent times, It spoke volumes about the man.
In fact, his lack of class, when his TRUE CHAMPIONS were beaten to the title, by undeserving Brighton, was VERY, VERY similar to Pardew's when the same thing happened between us and Reading a few years earlier.
Its because he talks like David Brent, has a face nobody could ever tire of smacking, and specifically, because he showed a huge lack of class, in refusing to allow his Southampton team to give us a guard of honour when we played them in League One, 2 weeks after we'd beaten them to the title.