Unless I've got my 70s football all arse over tit
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
Vince Hilaire is the name flashing in neon on the Sunset Strip George Street within my skull
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
late 70s we'd already slipped back down a division and palace were on the up with venables, then we took venables and switched fortunes again
― r|t|c, Saturday, 25 May 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Kit looks like Barcelona, team of the eighties, incredible 4-3 v Liverpool 90 semi, incredible 3-3 v United 90 final, finished third with Wright, Bright, Salako etc.....erm....Brolin.........keeper with baggy jogging bottoms.....eleventh hour rescue from bankruptcy
― Hearing moyes confirmedare we hearing m (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Selhurst Park looks a pretty good ground
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
have a good friend who's a season ticket holder, says the catering is the worst out of any ground he's been to
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 25 May 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
selhurst park is not a pretty good ground. they are not getting this one.
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Saturday, 25 May 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
te defixio
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Monday, 27 May 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
An email from Des Hinton-Beales: "Surely for this game to be fair Palace should have had infinite loans in the two weeks since the semi?" he writes. "I'd even accept the caveat that we can only borrow ex players. Clyne and Moses would do nicely and who wouldn't want to see the dream duo up front of Kevin Phillips and Ian Wright? Only kidding Watford, you've played some lovely football this season and your manager is a stand up guy. May the 'most deserving'/'club' with the west countriest manager" team win."
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
gotta feel for livebloggah glendenning if thats the best email hes got
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
crissy p should of scored by now
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
idk if i can remember a team running a second half like this and bringing it into extra time
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
kevvy p all my days
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
signori one step pen into the top corner takes some ballz
― r|t|c, Monday, 27 May 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
someone nuke croydon plz
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Monday, 27 May 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
just as i was rereading
London Walks
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
they deserved to win that
still not entirely sure zaha is going to raise himself above the slightly ragged moderately successful english winger tier
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 27 May 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
they will get 10 points next season as a generous estimate
need to walk off this parochial angst tbh, maybe I'll go to Erith
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Monday, 27 May 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I am Zappi's friend with the season (only the Selhurst 12 this season tho' Zappi) and can confirm that the catering is still as bad as ever. We have our own beer though, imaginatively 'Palace Ale', brewed by none other than Neil Morrisey. There is also the now annual 'Palace Beer Festival' that takes palace at Selhurst each summer.
Most Palace fans will be happy to accept relegation back again to the championship, as the money is earmarked to either do up Selhurst, or the (unlikely, but possible) dream of moving back to Cyrstal Palace Park and building a new stadium on the old NSC site. However there is already talk of Livermore on loan; behind the the dreadful accent Holloway seems to know what he is doing (after we looked appalling stumbling into the play offs); he's been there before, and history is littered by teams that go up by accident and stay there.
― Flowersdie, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
hi flowersdie, welcome to ilf
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link
Er, Thanks. I've been here for a while...
― Flowersdie, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
idk about ollie these days tbh
once he lost kenny jackett at rangers he started undermining his good work wrt morale and transfers with some infuriating stubborn things tactically and from afar that pattern has seemed to continue ever since
he has also apparently developed the lethal concoction of simultaneously becoming very cranky and very preeningly self-aware of his ledgebantz status
obv it would be nice to have him back for a predictably disastrous spell someday
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
haha i was just thinking yesterday of sending this thread to you flowersdie
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
There's at least one other Palace fan knocking about on ILE as well, I believe, unless Flowersdie has had a swift name change.
there is a gaping lacuna somewhere around clapton where the eastern vertex of the the CP--QPR--W quadrilateral of mediocrity should be located
Do West Ham have too much history to qualify for this or something? Pretty sure there was a point in the early 90s when all four were playing in the Premiership and I'm pretty sure QPR were the best of the lot at the time.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
ah yeah, 'ambrose'
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
speroni, jedinak, williams, murray seem like a decent base to start from. possibly parr and garvan too
talk of resigning boyce, watson and even aj on the boards i see
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
oh and bolasie
and ward!
the rest of that defence though bloody hell
was frankly distrubing to watch delaney and gabbidon in tandem and looking competent on monday
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
quite possibly they are the least twee club in britain, but never comfortably so - club and supporters alike have an unusually high-strung temperament, quick to lash out at perceived slights, owing not simply to pugilist tribalism but to a particularly palace sense of anxiety.
Always thought of them as the Portsmouth of London, although probably the pre-Redknapp, pre-financial insanity Pompey. There's also that ability to personify their entire fanbase in one man - twat with the bell vs that racist dude that Cantona went ham on.
Kind of hate them tbh.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure there was a point in the early 90s when all four were playing in the Premiership and I'm pretty sure QPR were the best of the lot at the time.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:18 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
top of all london clubs in 93 ta very much
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
haha writing that vaguely sympathetic projection-laden post kinda immediately turned me back against palace tbh
portsmouth comparison is probably spot on actually
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
I was worried about the Holloway apppointment initially. I lived in Leicester when he was there, and can remember how dire they were when he took them down, but after a shaky last few weeks of the season, when we couldn't buy an away goal, never mind a point, he got the tactics at Brighton and against Watford spot on. So far there have been no wacky antics (ok - barring that dance thing that was leaked) but thankfully nothing approaching the 'let's have a coffee' bollocks that he used to come out with in press conferences; I have a feeling he's trying to shake that image.
― Flowersdie, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:20 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol are u implying a suspicion of him being darren ambrose
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
Both clubs have real shithole grounds as well.
I was thinking of that 94-95 season, the most outlying Premiership season ever, where QPR and Wimbledon were comfortably top-half teams, Arsenal and Chelsea in midtable mediocrity, and Blackburn won the Premiership. Also four teams got relegated, including Palace fourth from bottom.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
if only xp
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
surely we're all agreed that just purely as dramatis personae it's better them up than watford tho right
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
darren bent would be extremely palace
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
God yeah, Palace have both pantomime villain and hapless whipping boy potential. Watford would just be in that Derby County category when it wouldn't even be any fun, and you really don't want both Watford and Hull in the Prem at once.
Reckon all three promoted sides will go down next season, even allowing for whatever happens at Stoke or Sunderland.
(xpost - Bobby Z or nothing)
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
no one but no one is stupid enough to take bobby off our hands. plus there's always carlton cole
aj i could see though if they're very, very sentimental
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:18 (36 minutes ago)
yeah i think winning european trophies and all the famous academy names elevate them above the other three, but being bought by gold & sullivan is a good step towards obliquity
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
Let's just throw in Nigel Quashie and be done with it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
i was just thinking of quashie yesterday
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
the three promoted clubs returning call is one I made in disgust at the teams who went up, but Stoke are really, really fucked so basically this is the season for one club - any club - to pull off a jammy survival. it'll be Cardiff, sadly
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
i thought his name was kwoshy for a fair while before i realized it was an eccentric rendering of kwasi
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51536.html
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
names of cricketers that occasionally float through my head
for a very brief period quashie looked like he was going to be the mobile thudd of england's dreams
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
The youngster has already been selected for England at U-19 and U-21 level, and [John] Spencer believes he is the next best thing to hit English football, since current England manager Glenn Hoddle.
"The lad is as good a player as England have had since Glenn Hoddle. I've seen Hoddle in training when I was with Chelsea. He was the other side of 30 and Nigel is under 20, but they can do the same things."
"They can both hit long passes and can run games. In training Nigel can hit free-kicks any spot he likes. You have to stand there in amazement."
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
2004–2006 Scotland 14 (1)
― OH NO, SECONDS LEFT, SECONDS LEFT, AND THERE IT IS. REGRET. (imago), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6JPZ8_mxWg
truly a singular congregation of rangers ghosts
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
...
― imago, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa
I wonder how far down the list they had to go before finding someone who'd answer their phone calls.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
gwan?
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
I’m not really fussed really. Whether this is some kind of post-Pulis syndrome, or the sheer relief that it didn’t end up being Sherwood, I don’t know. Lots of people don’t forgive him for jumping ship to QPR when we went into admin. I imagine all of that will be forgotten if we look like we stand any chance of staying up. Still don’t like the way he talks about himself in the third person though. It sort of makes sense, albeit in a very Palace way.
― Flowersdie, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdycWHhvsQ
Sky Sports News presenter Kaveh Solhekol was forced to abandon his post on transfer deadline day after a Crystal Palace supporters' group let off flares outside the club's training ground.
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
croydon's burning again!!!
― imago, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 11:40 (nine years ago) link
Well, here we go again.
― Flowersdie, Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
worried my fav team might get relegated
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 December 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
This is a potentially glorious time to be a Dover Athletic fan.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 28 December 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
this season is a good example of why crystal palace have never been interesting in the pl, they never really invest enough or try and do anything too interesting
not that they should be spending £40m but warnock's appointment was so craven and hopeless that they might as well not have bothered
vitor perreira would be interesting
how has zaha been doing
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/29/244C4E0F00000578-2890167-image-a-12_1419872480841.jpg
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 08:36 (nine years ago) link
Warnock's appointment screamed of desperation in the first place, but then again they were going to offer the job to Mackay so it's not as if a bold progressive move was suddenly shattered.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAMnMweW0AA3bQz.jpg
http://www.cpfc.co.uk/cms_images/gallery/gallery-0961-3721185.jpg
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAONKpzXgAAcXF-.jpg
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
this is my fav team because of their name
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
the fact that they're called the eagles and their longstanding rivals are called the seagulls making the game between the two "eagles vs seagulls" will never not be funny to me
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
rtc knows what he's doing, i.e. enraging me
― ban violent jinks (imago), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
you'll never have greenwich or bexley you fuckers!
― ban violent jinks (imago), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
and that their grounds are 50 miles apart is bit fucked up on this lil' island.
― calzino, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
I've assiduously never investigated quite how that rivalry came about, though i know it dates to the 70s.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
Smurf @PalaceSmurf 7h Replying to @CPFCYou spelt West Wickham wrong
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
they're more on millwall's turf than ours here tbh but it still galls, we never claimed croydon, lambeth and bromley even in our heyday. i mean why would we want to i guess
― ban violent jinks (imago), Friday, 19 May 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
I've assiduously never investigated quite how that rivalry came about, though i know it dates to the 70s.― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 23:48 (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 23:48 (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
An explanation, of sorts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4CvRDkdp7g
― Flowersdie, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
Technically you can start on the edge of Crystal Palace Park and walk through all five of those boroughs in about ten minutes so I'd say that's fair game.
Less so from Selhurst Park obviously.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 12:34 (six years ago) link
https://sport.bt.com/video/watch-team-of-the-eighties-exclusively-on-bt-sport-91364398083931
― Flowersdie, Monday, 7 October 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link