the fitba team crystal palace

About time for some pictures then

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lol Dultras. i recognise someone in that crowd ^_^

ssssssshhhhh.

A few more?

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Didn't that bloke with the stick thing stand for mayor?

He planned to. I'm not sure how serious it was, have only heard the story second hand.

RIP NOADES

Noades provoked controversy with his comments on the racial make-up of his team: ""The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players in there to balance things up and give the team some brains and some common sense."[2]

Noades always vehemently denied the racism stuff, and reckoned he had been misquoted/cleverly edited (as he does again at the 55 minute mark of the interview here)
http://www.palaceradio.net/podcasts.html

although his argument doesn't extend much beyond 'some of my best friends are black'.

Some good stuff on Ian Wright in that interview. His first contract was £30 a week, to cover expenses only.

Do palace fans look fondly on the noades legacy? I was surprised to see the players wearing black armbands yesterday & just assumed that everyone hated him.

Noades split the fan base, although hardly down the middle.

After 4 years of false starts since buying the club in 1981 (which included the disastrous appointments of Dario Gradi and Alan Mullery as managers), Noades split the club from the ground in the mid-80s, and Selhurst Park was from then on owned by his company, Altonwood, who mainly own golf courses around South London and the South East. As such, much of the Charlton and Wimbledon rent money from the ground shares went into Altonwood, rather than Palace. When Mark Goldberg tried to buy the club in 1998, the original deal also included buying the ground from Altonwood, but Goldberg ran out of money to go ahead with the purchase, and so bought only the club (for almost £23 million, doh), with rent money now being paid to Altonwood each season. It was Noades unrealistic valuation of the ground that put paid to a deal being made with the next chairman, Simon Jordan. Noades left Palace pretty much as he found them, bottom of the first division and on the brink of admin, except this time without owning their own ground. He had a good vision; that is Palace as part of a large sporting leisure empire of the South East, but never really realised it.

Against this, Palace came third in 1991, Wright and Bright (and Thomas, Cookie Coleman etc - the team that went up to the old first division had been bought for practically nothing), appointment of Coppell, a couple of cup finals (including a Zenith Data Systems cup final win!) and pre Goldberg a club that continually bobbled between the top two divisions, which earns him grudging respect amongst most Palace fans, although this is done by the majority of them with the knowledge of the above.

V interesting, cheers flowersdie. Noades did similar stuff at Brentford, and the fans now are overwhelmingly anti. He tried to split the club from the ground (griffin Park being the only valuable asset) and proposed moving out to Woking. We were supposedly in a relatively good financial position when he bought the club, and he said he was going to be using his own money to provide funding. Obv that was bollocks and he was just borrowing against the value of the ground. The more conspiracy-minded say he was running up debts to reduce Altonwood's tax liability but I dunno bout that. Left us in a total state, massive debts etc. Of course nobody was complaining when he bought us the third division title. People were being naive when he took over. We probably wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for a new benevolent millionaire (who does actually seem brilliant).

Yes, I'd heard he was up to his old shennanigans at the Bees. Is a ground move still on the cards?

And on the bright side, we've both still survived.

Planning permission for a new ground was approved last month and the aim is to move in time for the 2016/17 season. We've also got a brand new academy and a really impressive youth setup. Leaving GP is not great but I've been assured that it's the only way forward.

Where is the new ground going to be?

good posts

there must be some lingering desire to get a south london club established in the epl and try to make them emblematic in the same way west ham are of the east, at least that belgian buying charlton probably hopes so

xp New ground is on some wasteground next to kew bridge, so still in brentford. There's going to be a load of shitty flats and a hotel as well. Kew residents are in uproar lol.

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well now

ahahahaha

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ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

I wonder how far down the list they had to go before finding someone who'd answer their phone calls.

gwan?

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.

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.

croydon's burning again!!!

Well, here we go again.

worried my fav team might get relegated

This is a potentially glorious time to be a Dover Athletic fan.

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

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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.

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this is my fav team because of their name

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

rtc knows what he's doing, i.e. enraging me

you'll never have greenwich or bexley you fuckers!

and that their grounds are 50 miles apart is bit fucked up on this lil' island.

I've assiduously never investigated quite how that rivalry came about, though i know it dates to the 70s.

Smurf @PalaceSmurf 7h Replying to @CPFC
You spelt West Wickham wrong

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

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

An explanation, of sorts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4CvRDkdp7g

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.

https://sport.bt.com/video/watch-team-of-the-eighties-exclusively-on-bt-sport-91364398083931