Millwall to go up. Not ideal, but even good promoted teams come straight back down. Hate Palace, everything about them is a joke but if they win the Cup they will finally have some real history that isn't just having one of their fascists kicked by Cantona. 120 years with nothing but that, or even longer if you believe their nonsense about being formed by Judas Iscariot just before he topped himself. No, already giving me nightmares. I don't want to cheer on Citeh, but the alternative is worse.
A season of Millwall in the top division gets forgotten about within a couple of years, especially if they did a Luton / Huddersfield. Luton are an apparently well run club but the parachute money hasn’t done them much good after getting pumped every week last season.
Crystal Palace would forever be the 2025 FA Cup winners.
The year all the big clubs couldn't be bothered to show up and rested players to exit at the first opportunity so it was a finished competition and doesn't really count. Unlike 1947... Is my pre-prepared truth if they do win.
Can I smash my nuts wafer thin with a steak mallet instead of either scenario?
Knock yourself out. If you dont try, and one of them does it, you'll die wondering whether it was your fault, making a deal with the devil and not following through with your side of the bargain.
PS not really, whether you smash your nuts wafer thin with a steak mallet or not will have no bearing in the football fortunes of Palace or Millwall. Promise.
Has to be Millwall going up. A lot of Palace fans near why I live not to mention where I work and I'd never hear the end of it. I'm quietly confident however that Millwall won't make thr Play-Offs and City will do the business in the final.
I hate Palace more than most but the FA Cup has lost a lot of relevance in recent seasons. I could forget about that within a few weeks. Millwall being up would be in our face week in week out for the entire season.
Palace are already lightyears ahead of where we are as a club these days. Can't let the unthinkable happen if Millwall make it to the big money promised land and they disappear from reach too.
How are Palace light years ahead of Charlton ? Of the two stadiums I’d say that The Valley is light years ahead of Selhurst with its wooden stand on one side (how is that still getting a safety certificate ?) and naff AW stand opposite.
Their players are probably light years ahead than ours but that’s because of the PL money paying the ‘PL wages’.That’s temporary, as it is for every PL team outside the ‘top 6’ clubs.
Is their support base any bigger or better than ours ? I doubt it. Most of their ‘support’ is temporary and will likely only be there because it’s the PL.
Currently they are.
Even if you put aside the fact the PL is light years away from league one, they have 3-4 players who they could probably each sell for more than it would cost to buy our entire club and stadium.
Only how we do bothers me, so success for either or both won't mess with my head, not that I'm rooting for them to win. Forced to choose, I'll say Palace as I've got friends who support them, do know something about football, and don't openly hate us.
Sat in Spoons with a Millwall fan yesterday, his other team is Charlton, as his father (a Charlton supporter) would take him as a boy, always the East Terrace, one week The Valley, the next week, The (old) Den. He asked me If I had to chose between watching Palace or Millwall, which would I choose. I said Palace, Millwall always leave me feeling cold.
Variously the regular group gathering, always at the same table in my local spoons has a Norwich fan, a QPR fan, 2 Charlton, 1 Millwall, 1 Brighton, 1 Palace, 1 Arsenal, and 1 Chelsea. Plenty of ribbing but all good natured.
I don't give a toss if Palace win the cup or Millwall get promoted, life is too short. I'm just hoping we get out of league one before I die (I'm nearly 63yo).
one of the extra rollercoasters of football is the irrational (rational where the scum are concerned) hatred of other football teams. No one cheered more than me when Blackburn fucked the scum up last season , Man Utd doing palace and the scum in FA Cup Finals I was a raging lunatic foaming at the mouth cheering for them clubs to lose . Arsenal losing last night was enjoyable as that snarly faced twat cnuteta strutted about with a chewed wasp face and always outside the technical area , I'm a deranged , completely unhinged lunatic watching some matches , constantly swearing and nescafe waves at the telly in my own house , genuinely pathetic but I love it . football hatred is a good additional thing for when your team is shit , you can gain soooo much pleasure from other clubs suffering . Love it
Millwall in the prem would mean a huge injection of cash, plus all the parachute payments etc. As others have said they would be light years away from us....probably are currently!
Palace I don't really give two fucks about anymore.
I've got a couple of Millwall friends and quite a few Palace friends. Not one of them has ever said a bad word about Charlton. I'd much rather one of them had a bit of success than the same old Manchester City/Arsenal/Liverpool bore-fest.
I've got a couple of Millwall friends and quite a few Palace friends. Not one of them has ever said a bad word about Charlton. I'd much rather one of them had a bit of success than the same old Manchester City/Arsenal/Liverpool bore-fest.
Loads of clubs hate Millwall and vise versa. It's a pretty long list. It certainly won't just be a Charlton problem.
I don't want to witness Millwall becoming a bigger club. Unfortunately a stint in the Premier league will certainly attract more long term supporters and the new den will be full.
My answer is I'd prefer Millwall to get promoted instead of palace winning the fa cup, but I quite like option 3.
Option 3 is Charlton win the playoffs, palace lose the final, Millwall stay down, Charlton manage to live and breathe in the championship and we beat Millwall at the valley...
Option three was looking good until you strayed into the realms of fantasy with the last six words, Dave...
Palace winning cup. Not much prize money comparatively. European football may weaken them following year & bring them closer to relegation following season.
Millwall would get parachute payments that would strengthen them over next seasons.
Milllwall may be humiliated every week in Premiership football performance & have multiple embarrassing incidents by hanger on fans bad behaviour but that entertainment would be out weighed by premiership monies.
Palace have always been & always will be a non-entity of a club. If they win the FA Cup & play in Europe it will be sickening from a rivalry pov. They will proper lord it up. Probably get a little star on their badge. It will be unbearable. But beyond that, will it make much difference to the current dynamic between the two clubs? It won’t push Palace any further ahead really. It’ll just be horrific to live with.
Millwall getting PL money would be more damaging from a on the ground perspective imo. They’re already a well run club, more often than not finishing top half in the Championship in last decade. The money will no doubt be well invested by a chairman that actually cares about the club. They have big plans for The Den & surrounding area, plus the training ground. PL money will only help with that, & a raised profile helps them attract more local talent. It will elevate them up a few notches on the football food chain. Burnley were a middling Championship club averaging 13-14,000 before a surprise promotion. Ffs so were Palace! 😭
I've got a couple of Millwall friends and quite a few Palace friends. Not one of them has ever said a bad word about Charlton. I'd much rather one of them had a bit of success than the same old Manchester City/Arsenal/Liverpool bore-fest.
The day I’m grown up and rational enough to think like that is the day I stop paying to watch 11 blokes I don’t know run around kicking a ball.Take the fan rivalry and emotion out of watching football and what’s the point ?
I've got a couple of Millwall friends and quite a few Palace friends. Not one of them has ever said a bad word about Charlton. I'd much rather one of them had a bit of success than the same old Manchester City/Arsenal/Liverpool bore-fest.
The day I’m grown up and rational enough to think like that is the day I stop paying to watch 11 blokes I don’t know run around kicking a ball.Take the fan rivalry and emotion out of watching football and what’s the point ?
We don’t agree with a lot on here douchy my old mate but on this you are spot on. Football without rivalry is f**king dull.
Palace to win the Cup every day of the week. We don't compete with them for our fanbase anywhere really (expect perhaps Bromley which doesn't really count IMO) but we go head to head with Millwall throughout South-East London and large parts of Kent.
If they got in the Premier League, they'd all come out of the woodwork and we could lose a generation of younger supporter.
I've got a couple of Millwall friends and quite a few Palace friends. Not one of them has ever said a bad word about Charlton. I'd much rather one of them had a bit of success than the same old Manchester City/Arsenal/Liverpool bore-fest.
The day I’m grown up and rational enough to think like that is the day I stop paying to watch 11 blokes I don’t know run around kicking a ball.Take the fan rivalry and emotion out of watching football and what’s the point ?
We don’t agree with a lot on here douchy my old mate but on this you are spot on. Football without rivalry is f**king dull.
Rivalry takes different forms though, some more extreme than others. I mean, would you seriously sacrifice your chance of promotion now if it meant Palace didn't win the cup? Some on here would prefer to see the club they claim to support fail than their rival succeed. That's too extreme for me to get my head round, and I've no wish to. The very last thing it shows is that I'm lacking in emotion when it comes to Charlton's fortunes.
Palace to win the Cup every day of the week. We don't compete with them for our fanbase anywhere really (expect perhaps Bromley which doesn't really count IMO) but we go head to head with Millwall throughout South-East London and large parts of Kent.
If they got in the Premier League, they'd all come out of the woodwork and we could lose a generation of younger supporter.
Our Bromley fans show a lot of palace traits - remember that bloke who used to push all the flags and banners 😂
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Hate Palace, everything about them is a joke but if they win the Cup they will finally have some real history that isn't just having one of their fascists kicked by Cantona. 120 years with nothing but that, or even longer if you believe their nonsense about being formed by Judas Iscariot just before he topped himself. No, already giving me nightmares. I don't want to cheer on Citeh, but the alternative is worse.
The year all the big clubs couldn't be bothered to show up and rested players to exit at the first opportunity so it was a finished competition and doesn't really count. Unlike 1947... Is my pre-prepared truth if they do win.
Apparently an “unacceptable answer”, but hey, I live on the edge…🤪
Even if you put aside the fact the PL is light years away from league one, they have 3-4 players who they could probably each sell for more than it would cost to buy our entire club and stadium.
We have true honours in our history. Only us in South London.
Give us a Blue Moon for one day - please!
Variously the regular group gathering, always at the same table in my local spoons has a Norwich fan, a QPR fan, 2 Charlton, 1 Millwall, 1 Brighton, 1 Palace, 1 Arsenal, and 1 Chelsea. Plenty of ribbing but all good natured.
I don't give a toss if Palace win the cup or Millwall get promoted, life is too short. I'm just hoping we get out of league one before I die (I'm nearly 63yo).
No one cheered more than me when Blackburn fucked the scum up last season , Man Utd doing palace and the scum in FA Cup Finals I was a raging lunatic foaming at the mouth cheering for them clubs to lose .
Arsenal losing last night was enjoyable as that snarly faced twat cnuteta strutted about with a chewed wasp face and always outside the technical area , I'm a deranged , completely unhinged lunatic watching some matches , constantly swearing and nescafe waves at the telly in my own house , genuinely pathetic but I love it .
football hatred is a good additional thing for when your team is shit , you can gain soooo much pleasure from other clubs suffering .
Love it
Millwall in the prem would mean a huge injection of cash, plus all the parachute payments etc. As others have said they would be light years away from us....probably are currently!
Palace I don't really give two fucks about anymore.
If they got in the Premier League, they'd all come out of the woodwork and we could lose a generation of younger supporter.