the fitba team crystal palace

^ key point imo. Even when I lived south of the river I could never bring myself to visit the place, lest it fail to live up to the splendid fantasyland that I still believe it to be.

Did that story about Diddy wanting to buy Palace because he liked the name ever turn out to be true?

The actual Crystal Palace is a strange place full of ruins and headless statues and sphinxes and dinosaurs and a lot of Thai restaurants but the club isn't really in Crystal Palace. That said 'Croydon FC' or 'South Norwood' don't really have the same ring to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VomkssQel8g

cor pards wasnt half a looker tbf to the philandering sod

The actual Crystal Palace is a strange place full of ruins and headless statues and sphinxes and dinosaurs and a lot of Thai restaurants but the club isn't really in Crystal Palace. That said 'Croydon FC' or 'South Norwood' don't really have the same ring to them.

The army kicked Palace out of Crystal Palace Park in 1914; they used to play on the ground the old FA cup finals were held in. After that they went on a nomadic wander around South London, briefly playing at Herne Hill Velodrome and what is now Selhurst train depot (there are still bits of the old stand visible there today apparently), before Selhurst Park was built and opened in 1924.

phwoar xp

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/gallery/prem-managers-young/pa-photos_t_premier-league-managers-young-gallery-pies-1412q.jpg

To be fair, at least two Thai restaurants have closed. One is still boarded up, the other is a Brazilian place, now, I think.

I lived in the area for nearly 13 years now but I haven't been to Selhurst Park since Everton won there in Aug 2004. Rooney "injured". Apparently, it's £35 for category A Championship games, which is what they were charging for the cheapest Prem fixtures nine years ago.

It amazes me that so many people are prepared to pay those prices

the fitba team crystal palace

In the end, Ian Holloway was a broken man. He sat, ashen-faced, in a cinema theatre in the basement of the Soho hotel and all that fizz and exuberance that had marked him out, not least on the touchline at Wembley less than five months ago, had drained away. This time the faded buzzwords were "exhausted" and "tired". "This club needs that impetus of energy," he offered, "but I just feel pretty worn out."

Yeah, from the post match interview he looked like he was going.

Doesn't look like too many credible candidates if we're looking to stay up; I'd rather get someone in to prepare for a promotion push in next season's championship. Looking like it's going to be Pulis though. God knows what he's going to make of Chamakh.

A light supper most probably

yannick bolasie chained to a radiator

lolz and all i guess but still it's been sad to see our formerly tiggerish saviour poisoned so over the years :/

palace look to have really fucked themselves letting ollie run riot in his monomanical panic though, will likely take whoever comes in longer than season to clear through the squad rubble

then again way it is now they'll still financially overmatch everyone in the champo so nbd i guess

Looking like it's going to be Pulis though. God knows what he's going to make of Chamakh.

― Flowersdie, Thursday, 24 October 2013 13:20 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

"oh hi kenwyne you had a haircut or something?"

when we got redknapp in (and again after relegation) there was a lot of supporter talk about getting a young manager in to destroy and reshape and so forth but in truth anyone like that would have been eaten alive

seen some fleeting mentions of sean dyche for this gig but however counterintuitively would you really bet on him stopping the rot sooner than pulis

pour one out for lil jonathan williams though

haha oh yeah and jose campana

INT pulis study

slowly he puts the phone down. he heads to a bust of charles reep, turning it a secret door opens to reveal a lift deep down into the puliscave. there he strides down a long, long passageway past assorted iron maidens, morning stars, cat o' nine tails and the like to a spotlit glass display case where rests the baseball cap. it is time

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71012000/jpg/_71012341_parish_getty.jpg

can never decide whether i like palace more or less for having poundshop green gartside as chairman

More, obv

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/25/article-2513409-19A3656400000578-594_634x435.jpg

the precise moment when reality hits home

aka pulis & psyche 85

Obv looked at soton and thought nah not havin that

this is all, all very gratifying

stoke-on-thames

Hopefully relegation will put a stop to this Pulis menace for good

Back to the underworld hence

did you

did you just claim croydon is on the thames

didn't know hilary clinton was palace chairman. or that she'd had botox done.

The fuck am i spost to know about croydon u picky bastard

did you

did you just claim croydon is on the thames

― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

transpontaneous combustion

✓

Don't fancy actually *playing* CPulis next season. Course, we could just get relegated ourselves if that prospect overly daunts.

exurban and terminus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23404965

unlucky m8

maybe some of those famous ultras will co-opt the 'valencia is not catalonia' banners the mestalla used to have during barca games

south norwood no es croydon

the big controversy is whether CP are S London or SE London. would prefer the former, leave the latter as a personal & painful contention of equals 'twixt us & the 'wall

ah that cameron jerome pic is an old favourite

http://i.imgur.com/K7QbWmF.jpg?1http://www.anesthesiawiki.net/metrohealthanesthesia/MHAnes/images/ketamine2d.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/K7QbWmF.jpg?1

you'll never top salpingitis

the big controversy is whether CP are S London or SE London. would prefer the former, leave the latter as a personal & painful contention of equals 'twixt us & the 'wall

Hmmmmm.... I think (based on nothing more than a hunch) that Millwall would dominate in the inner areas (Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Deptford, Lewisham, Peckham etc), Charlton I think of as spreading down the A2 towards Dartford, Palace taking everything from Coulsdon to Camberwell, but everything west of that being Chelsea (with the occasional Womble). Who do people in Bromley support?

Bromley FC?

Managed by former mad Palace chairman Mark Goldberg.

Bromley are the second team for a few Palace (who attend on non league day, midweeks etc). I'm a Dulwich Hamlet man myself.

Who do people in Bromley support?

Arsenal.

c u at hamlet 1 day m8

O that this 2-2 solid flesh would melt

This is the second forum in pretty much as many days I've unexpectedly spotted Dulwich supporters. Excellent.