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'What is it that makes Millwall and Palace fans so different?" article on Newshopper

numberten
numberten Posts: 71
edited November 2011 in General Charlton

Thought Millwall didn't care about them, it's pretty scathing though.

Slightly surprised this is an article in a newspaper....
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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,814
    It's bang on
  • numberten
    numberten Posts: 71
    It's bang on
    Well yeah, can't say I disagree with any of it. 
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,223

    First in Europe.....I'm sure I went to Italy to watch Charlton against Brescia some time ago....it must of been a dream?

  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,223

    PS: Is Italy in spain.....? ;o)

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,771
    I pretty much think he's nailed it. " Not happy in their own skin"  - Who would be?
  • Sparrows Lane Lion
    Sparrows Lane Lion Posts: 2,797
    http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/football/millwall/9393431.What_is_it_that_makes_Millwall_and_Palace_fans_so_different_/?

    Thought Millwall didn't care about them, it's pretty scathing though.


    Quite a few Millwall hate them more than west ham. Dunno why, but they do.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,814
    I do sometimes with Palace think they've got a bit of a middle class chip on there shoulder which makes them better then us and Millwall, and the piece is pretty much getting at that in a round about way. The inbetweeners would be Palace fans
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,671
    In real life 2 of the inbetweeners are palace fans
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,652
    They lack identity for certain. South Norwood is not London anymore than Watford is. I find them rather pathetic as a club actually.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Cracking read sums up my feelings for the stripey prix

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,115
    edited November 2011
    I do sometimes with Palace think they've got a bit of a middle class chip on there shoulder which makes them better then us and Millwall, and the piece is pretty much getting at that in a round about way. The inbetweeners would be Palace fans
    I think that's pretty much it. If they do something it's a good idea, if someone else does the same thing they're copying and when they copy something they still have some moral high ground and the original, yet identical idea still gets mocked.

    They believe that they have some importance due to having a high gate in the 70s, a high league finish in the early 90s and a cup final around the same time. Like a confused spurs fan but with no identity or history.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,814
    In a lot of ways, there a shit version of Fulham. Middle class, false and in the shadow of two rivals who have history
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456

    Thr Blitz? I can't help thinking of Uncle from Only Fools......

    "During the war....."

     

  • ljm29
    ljm29 Posts: 275

    I liked that article as well. Thought it was pretty good. I read a link earlier on Brightons forum ('north stand chat' ot something) and it has an interview with the chief-goon of Palace's pathetically called Ultra's, and he refers to us as a "strange little club". Tosser.

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,173
    Sorry, but give me a Palarse fan before Millwall any day. 
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,190
    Sorry, but give me a Palarse fan before Millwall any day. 
    Exactly

  • Gazcafc81
    Gazcafc81 Posts: 641
    edited December 2011
    Sorry, but give me a Palarse fan before Millwall any day. 

     I can't stand the pair of them to be fair.

    But If Millwall and Palace played each other In the FA Cup Final I'd have to choose Millwall, simply because I've lived Millwall territory most of my life and a lot of my mates support Millwall.

    Some Palace fans I just can't get along with. 

    Probably already been done but could be a good topic for another thread?

  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,671
    I've never known a Palace fan, do they even exist?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,771
    Palace fan over a Millwall fan - No way!  
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131

    I read some of the comments from Palace fans about the article. One of them states that Palace were the first South London club to play in Europe when they were in the Inter Toto in 1998.

    Didnt the old Wimbledon play in the toto prior to 98, making them the first south london club in Europr.


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  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    I've never known a Palace fan, do they even exist?

  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    Well, neither of them can tell the difference between a British Rail class 153 diesel engine and a class 323............. and we're better at juggling apparently.
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,744
    Well the article made me smile.   The hit at the plastics has upset them because it hit the nail on the head and the retort from the plastics makes the point how deluded wall fans are.

    It's like all long running stories, the Millwall one gets enlarged and more distorted as the decades go on till they all believed they were a big club still sleeping from there inauguration in the late 1800's.  The trouble was after their fleeting foray in to the top flight for the first time it became apparent to their own fans they weren't, as one long standing wall fan told me "we thought we were a big club and found out we weren't".  

    Long may both the stalwarts of the old Division 3 South and former founder members of the old 4th Division bicker amongst themselves.  Well I thought this way of expressing it was more in keeping with the article, got to go Lord Haw Haw is broacasting from the News Shopper.

      
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    Personally I found the comments underneath more entertaining.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,247
    Sorry, but give me a Palarse fan before Millwall any day. 
    Agreed
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    I really dislike those fan-based columns. Just an extension of a football message board give credence by a local newspaper.
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190

    I am 24 years of age. I know plenty of Charlton fans and plenty Millwall fans. Half my family are Milwlall fans.

    I know 0 Palace fans and never have done. Where are they?

  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    edited December 2011
    just pulled one about being a nigel on facebook,ormy will be as surprised as me that there was one at our school,kept that quiet
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    I've never known a Palace fan, do they even exist?
    They'll all be coming out of the closet this morning.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    They're all in Kent waiting for a decent coach service.................

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