[Albion] Are you up yourself?

[LamieRobertson]

Do they want a two goal start again….oh hang on they still lost

 

[A1X]

Well you are very posh.

Right, outside

The outside:

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Have they read the Wetherspoons thread?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

What some folk don't realise, including all Palace fans, is that Brighton do indeed have a major title.

Back in 1910, Albion won the Charity Shield. At the time it was played between the Football League winners (mostly Midlands and Northern) and the Southern League winners. The team that won were officially crowned 'Champions of all England'. Albion defeated Aston Villa 1-0.

So when Leicester City fans sung at us 'Champions of England, you'll never sing that' it was a case of 'Well....'

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They weren't "officially" called "Champions of all England".

As far as I can tell it's an idea that is only ever mentioned in relation to the time we won it, not the other four or five times that format was used. Also it was played in front of about 13,000 people on a Monday, which doesn't exactly scream "major sporting event".

The most confusing part of all this though, is trying to work out what motivated somebody to rename Aston Villa "Aston Fries" on the match's Wikipedia page:

Which reminds me of the time somebody randomly added something like "Mr Gaylord" to Graham Thorpe's page as his nickname.

 

[Eeyore]

They weren't "officially" called "Champions of all England".

As far as I can tell it's an idea that is only ever mentioned in relation to the time we won it, not the other four or five times that format was used. Also it was played in front of about 13,000 people on a Monday, which doesn't exactly scream "major sporting event".

The most confusing part of all this though, is trying to work out what motivated somebody to rename Aston Villa "Aston Fries" on the match's Wikipedia page:
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Which reminds me of the time somebody randomly added something like "Mr Gaylord" to Graham Thorpe's page as his nickname.

The wiki page uses the champions reference and seems to refer to Tim Carder's book. I thought I saw some kind of poster/programme/card from the time with it in print too.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The wiki page uses the champions reference and seems to refer to Tim Carder's book. I thought I saw some kind of poster/programme/card from the time with it in print too.

As far as I remember, it's something that was originally written half seriously in one of the match reports, along the lines of Scotland's claim to be world champions after beating England in 1967.

Incidentally, I just looked it up to check which year that Scotland win was, and the current Unofficial Football World Champions are Algeria. Scotland have held it more recently than England.

 

[Bry Nylon]

The notion that one is up one’s self is, frankly, absurd.

What could possibly make anyone think such a thing?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Bringing us gently back to the OP's question....

Yes. Yes I am.

 

[All Four Grounds]

The more snide comments we get from the so-called ‘big six teams’ the better we are doing. A few years ago they only pitied, patronised or ignored us apart from the honourable exceptions that every fan base has who would have known about our history and nearly going out of the league. Now we‘re getting chippy comments on their fan sites and social media (‘the media loves them but they haven’t won anything’) we know we’re getting under their skin!

 

[MTSeagulls]

Tried but didn't quite manage it

 

[Pevenseagull]

I'm so far up myself, my tonsils just farted.

 

[bhafc99]

Front to back now I’m myself up far so I’m.

 

[dazzer6666]

Bringing us gently back to the OP's question....

Yes. Yes I am.

Who knew ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

 

[Guinness Boy]

I’m good mates with a couple of Spurs fans from a big group who know each other from clubbing and gigging in the 90s. They were getting a lot of shit on our WhatsApp group because of the quality of the game / goal, their season and the Spursy stereotype. Someone posted “still time to blow it lads” on about 89 mins. So I imagine quite a few of their fans were getting similar and are now throwing it back.

Objectively I’d far rather win a European trophy and have a poor (but not relegated) PL season than finish 8th. In fact the big frustration this season is that we’ve beaten two of this season’s trophy winners and finished above the other. It’s really been an opportunity missed.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Another job for Ireland’s most sarcastic priest

 

[Dick Swiveller]

What some folk don't realise, including all Palace fans, is that Brighton do indeed have a major title.

Back in 1910, Albion won the Charity Shield. At the time it was played between the Football League winners (mostly Midlands and Northern) and the Southern League winners. The team that won were officially crowned 'Champions of all England'. Albion defeated Aston Villa 1-0.

So when Leicester City fans sung at us 'Champions of England, you'll never sing that' it was a case of 'Well....'

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I'm not sure Leicester fans sing that. Think it is "you made us sing that" about their chairman who died.

 

[Flounce]

Yep I think I might be as I am now thinking ”we should be beating teams like Spurs” and may have a meltdown if we don’t. Does that count?

 

[chickens]

I’m so far up myself I can’t see daylight unless I open my mouth.* It’s a full-blown Escher-esque nightmare.

* Yes, yes I know. It wasn’t meant to be taken literally. Really, you people.

 

[5Ways Gull]

They weren't "officially" called "Champions of all England".

As far as I can tell it's an idea that is only ever mentioned in relation to the time we won it, not the other four or five times that format was used. Also it was played in front of about 13,000 people on a Monday, which doesn't exactly scream "major sporting event".

The most confusing part of all this though, is trying to work out what motivated somebody to rename Aston Villa "Aston Fries" on the match's Wikipedia page:
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Which reminds me of the time somebody randomly added something like "Mr Gaylord" to Graham Thorpe's page as his nickname.

I went to a dodgy fried chicken outlet the other day that still does Aston Fries