whatever you do, don't google the term "rent boy" like I just did.
Me too and this come up on the first Wiki suggestion - Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, the club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Domestically, the club has won six league titles, eight FA Cups, five League Cups, and four FA Community Shields.
Never known a fanbase to have such a high number of replica shirts in a crowd
There is a good reason for that. In the Palace programme at the end of last season they ran a 'buy a Palace shirt to nauseate the opposition' campaign.
Palace fans: watching their team play in the Premier league for the last nine years.
I genuinely don’t feel jealous in any way of them.
They’ve been there for 9 years, made up the numbers and not won anything. Not too dissimilar to our time there in the early 2000s.
If they had done a Leicester, or got into Europe, or won a cup - then I’d be envious. But what is there to be jealous of? The fact they get to watch bigger sides come to their home stadium?
I miss not being the laughing stock of South London* - going on away days and getting a win as 'the underdog' against teams such as Liverpool, Man Utd and Spurs etc. Having gone away to Lincoln City this season to watch us capitulate, I can't quite square the not being jealous about being in that situation.
* Thank god for their fanbase full of utter freaks that thankfully do make them the laughing stock of 'South London'...
Their fanbase is not hugely different from ours in the main excluding the bizarre ultra elements.
Atmosphere at their games is widely lauded albeit quite artificial but I'm sure they dont give a monkeys what other fans think as an established premier league team with relatively regular Wembley appearances and a premier league set up in their academy and training facilities and club-owned ground with fans as owners who know what they're doing.
Would swap this in a heart beat for the situation we're in as we gear up for yet another season hoping that we'll buck the trend and have a semblance of strategy and execution that will see us compete with morecambe and accrington Stanley.
Yes they have some embarrassing freaks and plastic initiatives but we're an absolute circus by comparison.
Palace fans: watching their team play in the Premier league for the last nine years.
I genuinely don’t feel jealous in any way of them.
They’ve been there for 9 years, made up the numbers and not won anything. Not too dissimilar to our time there in the early 2000s.
If they had done a Leicester, or got into Europe, or won a cup - then I’d be envious. But what is there to be jealous of? The fact they get to watch bigger sides come to their home stadium?
Each to their own I guess, but I get the same enjoyment out of Charlton on average as I did when we were in the Premier League and when that felt like ‘the norm’
Have Palace had that jackpot Wembley moment like we had since they got to the Premier League?
The malaise I feel for their situation is probably more aimed at the nature of Premier League football. Yes, you get to see the big teams and there’s major revenue for the club - but in terms of what makes being a fan - it just doesn’t do much for me to support a club that is purely looked at as making up the numbers.
Then again, I’m sure if we were in the Premier League again I might feel differently about it. But for now, I don’t look at them with envy.
There’s a reason why they need to try so hard to force an artificial identity about them….
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Oddball tryhards.
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To out do them let's have a march down Oxford Street before the Shrewsbury game.....or maybe not.
Bizarre, did they have to organise closing the road with the police?
QUENTIN! Have you done your algebra homework?
The fact he threw the coin like a girl
Virgin written on his shirt
He's wearing a backpack
His son is with him
They’ve been there for 9 years, made up the numbers and not won anything. Not too dissimilar to our time there in the early 2000s.
If they had done a Leicester, or got into Europe, or won a cup - then I’d be envious. But what is there to be jealous of? The fact they get to watch bigger sides come to their home stadium?
* Thank god for their fanbase full of utter freaks that thankfully do make them the laughing stock of 'South London'...
Their fanbase is not hugely different from ours in the main excluding the bizarre ultra elements.
Atmosphere at their games is widely lauded albeit quite artificial but I'm sure they dont give a monkeys what other fans think as an established premier league team with relatively regular Wembley appearances and a premier league set up in their academy and training facilities and club-owned ground with fans as owners who know what they're doing.
Would swap this in a heart beat for the situation we're in as we gear up for yet another season hoping that we'll buck the trend and have a semblance of strategy and execution that will see us compete with morecambe and accrington Stanley.
Yes they have some embarrassing freaks and plastic initiatives but we're an absolute circus by comparison.
Have Palace had that jackpot Wembley moment like we had since they got to the Premier League?
The malaise I feel for their situation is probably more aimed at the nature of Premier League football. Yes, you get to see the big teams and there’s major revenue for the club - but in terms of what makes being a fan - it just doesn’t do much for me to support a club that is purely looked at as making up the numbers.
Then again, I’m sure if we were in the Premier League again I might feel differently about it. But for now, I don’t look at them with envy.