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[Palace] Phantom Sh*tter
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Betfair Bozo
Well-known member
- Jul 24, 2007
- 2,107
It clearly isn't about that. I am sure I was not alone in cringing with embarrassment when this story broke originally and remember Holloway banging on about being "disrespected" and the like. Or was that because you were "misdirected" to the stadium as was suggested earlier? Or to the carpark when you arrived? A clue for next time. The big shiny thing off the A27 is the stadium and the big space for parking cars etc is the carpark. Hope this helps.
ParDieu
Banned
- Jan 18, 2015
- 98
Superphil
Dismember
Have made a few searches, can't find anything, don't recall it being posted at the time myself, but then wasn't overly following all the threads. Are you able to locate the post(s)?
It's not going to be "over 2 years", clearly, as it only happened about 20 months ago, but how about this from June 2013:
http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?280869-Poogate-latest/page2&p=5762909#post5762909
blue'n'white
Well-known member
Sounds like I'm one of the few that didn't know about it (or didn't pretend to know about it !)
At the very least I think that this demands an apology from Parish and from Holloway
But we won't get it from, as Easy 10 put it above, "a truly shabby grubby little club"
At the very least I think that this demands an apology from Parish and from Holloway
But we won't get it from, as Easy 10 put it above, "a truly shabby grubby little club"
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
I remember at the time being intensely embarrassed because someone in the club had supposedly done this out of spite. Palace fans I know were suggesting it was Charlie Oatway that was responsible, and apparently words were written on the wall in excrement. The rumour mill went into overdrive, and nobody was beyond suspicion. As I say, every time someone mentioned it (Palace fan or otherwise) I cringed with embarrassment.
I while later, via a friend I was told about the Palace coach driver info - which of course I couldn't verify.
However, for all this time, people within CPFC knew the truth, but having allowed it to proceed as it did, and was used as a motivational tool by Holloway, they decided not to clear it up (literally and metaphorically). It wouldn't have taken much to draw a line under the incident a couple of days later, would it ? The match was won.
Sad, very sad. And what's even sadder, is that just like a newspaper apology for an incorrect story, most people won't notice the 'truth' but continue to believe the original 'lie'.
I while later, via a friend I was told about the Palace coach driver info - which of course I couldn't verify.
However, for all this time, people within CPFC knew the truth, but having allowed it to proceed as it did, and was used as a motivational tool by Holloway, they decided not to clear it up (literally and metaphorically). It wouldn't have taken much to draw a line under the incident a couple of days later, would it ? The match was won.
Sad, very sad. And what's even sadder, is that just like a newspaper apology for an incorrect story, most people won't notice the 'truth' but continue to believe the original 'lie'.
Superphil
Dismember
Ah, there you go then, I searched Palace coach driver with and without quotes and got this return:
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
"palace coach driver"
The best way to search NSC, given the size of it now, is to let Google take the strain with a site:www.northstandchat.com search:
https://www.google.co.uk/#safe=off&q=site:www.northstandchat.com+palace+coach+driver
You can narrow down the date range too, if required.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
There you go - that's when I heard about it.
http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?280869-Poogate-latest&p=5763528&viewfull=1#post5763528
http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?280869-Poogate-latest&p=5763528&viewfull=1#post5763528
Horton hears a few
Banned
- Dec 3, 2012
- 325
I was at the Speroni do last night and from what McCarthy said it seems that it wasn't known by the Palace staff at the time who the culprit was. So when Holloway ranted about it, he thought at the time it was a ploy by Brighton.
At what point it did become clear I don't know. I can see the point that, to a neutral, they will just remember that "Brighton s***" in the Palace dressing room and that seems a little unfair and a little amusing at the same time.
At what point it did become clear I don't know. I can see the point that, to a neutral, they will just remember that "Brighton s***" in the Palace dressing room and that seems a little unfair and a little amusing at the same time.
Is it possible to embed a google search option into NSC
It is, yes. I have been considering it. One for the list...
DavidRyder
Well-known member
- Jul 23, 2013
- 2,957
Just so you're all aware, because I'm sure you really, really want to know
I'm sure it'll please you to know that Paddy McCarthy revealed at a testimonial evening for our Jules that our Coach Driver was ill the night before and in his words "it was coming out of both ends" when he and the kit man delivered our kit on the Sunday evening.
He tried to clear it but made it worse.
No-one else went it to clear it, and it's still there when the team arrived the next day.
Paddy: "We wouldn't be in the Premier League if it wasn't for that driver. 'Olly wasn't happy"
Cheers to that driver
Thanks for starting this thread, and also to the subsequent commenters - Having a good laugh, just what I need on arrival at my grey office!
nwgull
Well-known member
No. What's being claimed is that the kit was put into the dressing room a day in advance of the team arriving on the Monday evening, and that that's when it happened.
Sounds feasible: Kit man needs to get full kit laid out in preparation for a big match, so he gets coach driver to take him to Amex with kit. Driver gives kit man a hand with carrying kit into changing rooms, but while kit man is laying out kit, the coach driver is approaching Dresden so has to use the facilities. Driver makes a mess of trap 2, but is too embarrassed to say anything on the assumption that a cleaner will sort it; however, following the delivery of the kit the changing room renames locked (as it's already been cleaned and for security) until the away team arrives in the evening.
What's most annoying is that this story was allowed to spiral until it became FACT that Charlie Oatway had laid out a big turd in the middle of the floor and then written 'Palace Scum' on the wall in excrement. Andy Orlandi was even asked by Chappers on 5 live about what he thought about someone having poo'd on the changing room floor in a preview programme of the following season!
Sweeney Todd
New member
The Palace camp must have known, soon after the game that night, who the culprit was, yet were happy to let the world think, and go on thinking, that one of ours was responsible.
Palace fans were also happy to believe that the Albion players accused of rape were guilty until proven guilty - witness that grotesque thread on BBS - but no apologies were forthcoming when the players were acquitted.
So, it transpires that Albion were innocent on both counts.
Add to these matters the spectacle of Gus Poyet's whining on the BBC that he had been sacked on live television, and the BBC's pandering to him for the sake of a good story. What do you know? It turns out that he was not sacked on live television, after all, yet, again, the Albion's name was sullied.
Palace fans were also happy to believe that the Albion players accused of rape were guilty until proven guilty - witness that grotesque thread on BBS - but no apologies were forthcoming when the players were acquitted.
So, it transpires that Albion were innocent on both counts.
Add to these matters the spectacle of Gus Poyet's whining on the BBC that he had been sacked on live television, and the BBC's pandering to him for the sake of a good story. What do you know? It turns out that he was not sacked on live television, after all, yet, again, the Albion's name was sullied.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
They're embarrassed. Particularly as although we'd all told them who it was they gave it out on social media and sang at Gus the other day that it was him. They're trying to act like it never happened by fighting it as if it were some sort of triumph
Indeed Sheebo. You posted it back in Sept 13.
http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...-FFP-and-how-Barber-loves-to-save-money/page3
- Jul 7, 2003
- 48,405
To clarify my position on this: I have no issue with the result of the game (nor do most people I imagine: Palace won, unfortunately, fair & square). What I do have an issue with is a football club knowingly keeping quiet about something which, ultimately, one of their staff is responsible for, whilst a media binfest develops at the expense of the Albion. And they did know, as Glenn Murray was making off-the-record comments about it at the time. I'd heard that one, and was told in person by an Albion employee last year.
People get the shits occasionally, it can't be helped. Nobody would have been upset if they'd just said "Yep, sorry about that, an unfortunate accident which we will of course pay to clean up" (no need). But to wilfully permit the sort of national storm which ensued- shit on the walls, turds in the middle of the dressing room floor, shitty writing up the walls etc is downright shabby on Palace's behalf.
Yes, Palace fans, we get it. You're a Premier League club. But you're a shabby, small, poor excuse for one, with a strange sense of what's right & wrong.
People get the shits occasionally, it can't be helped. Nobody would have been upset if they'd just said "Yep, sorry about that, an unfortunate accident which we will of course pay to clean up" (no need). But to wilfully permit the sort of national storm which ensued- shit on the walls, turds in the middle of the dressing room floor, shitty writing up the walls etc is downright shabby on Palace's behalf.
Yes, Palace fans, we get it. You're a Premier League club. But you're a shabby, small, poor excuse for one, with a strange sense of what's right & wrong.
sams dad
I hate Palarse
Well said,Edna. They've always been a club with no class and no morals.