lol Dultras. i recognise someone in that crowd ^_^
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 29 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
ssssssshhhhh.
― Flowersdie, Friday, 29 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
A few more?
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/9494634558_2a594c60ea.jpghttp://farm4.staticflickr.com/3751/9494593744_c55fbf07ae.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7381/9491819425_1f49b5a04a.jpg
― michaellambert, Friday, 29 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Didn't that bloke with the stick thing stand for mayor?
― Flowersdie, Friday, 29 November 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link
He planned to. I'm not sure how serious it was, have only heard the story second hand.
― michaellambert, Friday, 29 November 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
RIP NOADES
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
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]
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
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'.
― Flowersdie, Thursday, 2 January 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link
Some good stuff on Ian Wright in that interview. His first contract was £30 a week, to cover expenses only.
― Flowersdie, Thursday, 2 January 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― oppet, Thursday, 2 January 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Flowersdie, Friday, 3 January 2014 10:30 (ten years ago) link
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).
― oppet, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Flowersdie, Friday, 3 January 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― oppet, Friday, 3 January 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
Where is the new ground going to be?
― Pre-Madonna (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
good posts
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
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.
― oppet, Friday, 3 January 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
http://i.holmesdale.net/image.php?p=news/2968.jpg&w=638
― Flowersdie, Thursday, 17 April 2014 09:04 (ten years ago) link
well now
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
ahahahaha
― 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