Question for the people who always back English teams in Europe; will you be backing the Nigels?
For me, they've just joined Arsenal as the only two teams, who I'll back foreign opposition.
The only English teams I’ll ever back are the non-typical big 6 teams (ie - Villa, Newcastle).
That said, I’ll want Palace to get ruthlessly destroyed in the group stage.
Clubs like Chelsea, Man United I don’t see any reason to back. Largely foreign players, foreign fanbases and clubs that seemingly resent being part of the English football pyramid.
I'm not going to let my weekend be spoilt because a football team, that has nothing to do with me, has won the FA Cup. Charlton have reached the play off final, rejoice in that and don't let the fact that another club has won a cup dampen your spirit.
The idea that because you support a certain football team you must hate another seems weird to me. I have no reason to hate Palace or Millwall, when both play in a different league.
The magic of the FA Cup is that every so often, a story is created when an underdog beats one of the giants.
Did you start coming to Charlton because of the Valley Express 🤔
I'm not going to let my weekend be spoilt because a football team, that has nothing to do with me, has won the FA Cup. Charlton have reached the play off final, rejoice in that and don't let the fact that another club has won a cup dampen your spirit.
The idea that because you support a certain football team you must hate another seems weird to me. I have no reason to hate Palace or Millwall, when both play in a different league.
The magic of the FA Cup is that every so often, a story is created when an underdog beats one of the giants.
Did you start coming to Charlton because of the Valley Express 🤔
I started like many others, my Dad took me to Charlton in the 70s when I was a teenager.
The great thing about Charlton fans are they are so level headed as demonstrated on CL ?
They have 7 chips on one shoulder about Palace and 7 chips on the other shoulder about Millwall.
A week before a 50/50 match in getting Charlton Athletic back to their home land of the Championship and the 2nd tier, they are focused on Palace who left Charlton behind long ago. The League cup game when we lost 4-1 with our 1st team against their reserves was when we waved goodbye in their tatty old stadium. The last close game was the 2-1 lost when Glenn Murray scored twice after Ben Hamer's slip. I took that loss badly as 1-0 up at HT and JJ should have buried his header to go 2 up 🤦🏻♂️
Palace have a hybrid fan base with more ethnic groups than I see at Charlton. I'm not talking about ground hoppers or Football tourists. Many of their supporters live in Surrey but Thornton heath is very diverse as well as West Croydon where English isn't spoken very often.
Because of my Bermondsey roots I suffered more if we lost to Millwall because in many of those games we were higher in the table FFS.
Tribal rivalry is an ancient feral state and Charlton should probably focus on Millwall our nearest rival, IF and when we reached the promised land of the 2nd tier as opposed to a Premier team, with an FA cup win and European football next season.
Jealousy eats you up as I know with my hatred of Chelsea ! 😤
Sam, it’s not just about tribalism. I have friends who decided to become palace fans two or three years ago. They’ve always been very patronising about Charlton, and pretend to not even know which league we’re in.
The one thing I’ve had to counter their jibes was the fact that we’d actually won a major trophy and they hadn’t. Of course It should be water off a duck’s back, I know, but it does rile me up. They have no understanding of the history of the game. To them it’s all about the Premier League. I guarantee if palace were relegated they’d soon lose interest.
When Charlton reached the Premier League, we had new fans as well. Staying with my parents one weekend in Canterbury I got the coach up from the Victoria Pub. One 'fan' was a recently retired weather man on Meridian; he knew all the current players TBF. Despite his age I knew he was a newbie as when I compared a player to John Humphrey's he didn't know who I was talking about ! Johnny H ! It would be like a fan not knowing about the late great Jimmy Seed. If Palace were ever relegated they would lose 'fans' like we did and the odious Chelsea did back in the day.
Not all 'fans' are "Charlton until I die"
That's show business.
I had a customer from the Bromley area who was an Arsenal fan, as were his sons. For years though he had a season ticket for him and his three sons at the Valley during your PL days. He just got them so he could watch cheap live PL football on a regular basis. I don’t think he’s been back since you got relegated.
The great thing about Charlton fans are they are so level headed as demonstrated on CL ?
They have 7 chips on one shoulder about Palace and 7 chips on the other shoulder about Millwall.
A week before a 50/50 match in getting Charlton Athletic back to their home land of the Championship and the 2nd tier, they are focused on Palace who left Charlton behind long ago. The League cup game when we lost 4-1 with our 1st team against their reserves was when we waved goodbye in their tatty old stadium. The last close game was the 2-1 lost when Glenn Murray scored twice after Ben Hamer's slip. I took that loss badly as 1-0 up at HT and JJ should have buried his header to go 2 up 🤦🏻♂️
Palace have a hybrid fan base with more ethnic groups than I see at Charlton. I'm not talking about ground hoppers or Football tourists. Many of their supporters live in Surrey but Thornton heath is very diverse as well as West Croydon where English isn't spoken very often.
Because of my Bermondsey roots I suffered more if we lost to Millwall because in many of those games we were higher in the table FFS.
Tribal rivalry is an ancient feral state and Charlton should probably focus on Millwall our nearest rival, IF and when we reached the promised land of the 2nd tier as opposed to a Premier team, with an FA cup win and European football next season.
Jealousy eats you up as I know with my hatred of Chelsea ! 😤
Sam, it’s not just about tribalism. I have friends who decided to become palace fans two or three years ago. They’ve always been very patronising about Charlton, and pretend to not even know which league we’re in.
The one thing I’ve had to counter their jibes was the fact that we’d actually won a major trophy and they hadn’t. Of course It should be water off a duck’s back, I know, but it does rile me up. They have no understanding of the history of the game. To them it’s all about the Premier League. I guarantee if palace were relegated they’d soon lose interest.
When Charlton reached the Premier League, we had new fans as well. Staying with my parents one weekend in Canterbury I got the coach up from the Victoria Pub. One 'fan' was a recently retired weather man on Meridian; he knew all the current players TBF. Despite his age I knew he was a newbie as when I compared a player to John Humphrey's he didn't know who I was talking about ! Johnny H ! It would be like a fan not knowing about the late great Jimmy Seed. If Palace were ever relegated they would lose 'fans' like we did and the odious Chelsea did back in the day.
Not all 'fans' are "Charlton until I die"
That's show business.
I had a customer from the Bromley area who was an Arsenal fan, as were his sons. For years though he had a season ticket for him and his three sons at the Valley during your PL days. He just got them so he could watch cheap live PL football on a regular basis. I don’t think he’s been back since you got relegated.
Obviously these sort of fans were in a minority at the time, but it was probably a sizeable minority. I’ve heard other similar accounts
Arsenal fans, however much they dislike Man U, will be desperate for Man U to beat Spurs on Wednesday, to stop Spurs winning something and reach the Champions League. Spurs fans will have cheered on PSG as they beat Arsenal. The Leicester fans last week were ecstatic at their last minute equaliser last week against Forest, as it massively dented Forest's chance of reaching the Champions League.
Couldn't sleep last night after their win. The only way out this darkness is
Back to back promotions followed by winning the Premier league or
Back to back promotions, qualify for champions league and win that the next season.
Scrap that there's no way out. Wherever I choose to go today it will be in my face. Could possibly cope with that , but also need to get through the next months with them bring in Europe. Just been sent the projected group pots for Europa league , I feel sick. I do feel our club could've set up a few dedicated helplines for those of us struggling at this time. Need promotions big time next Sunday.
To compound yesterday, we'll go and lose next Sunday. You can see it coming.
The best footballing period in their history running parallel with our worst makes it all sooooo much worse and add in the scum (only club in south east London without an FA Cup ) in their best footballing period ever and you have the biggest shit show on earth . weve all got a hard on for a game with fucking orient , they’ve just gone and beaten Man City won the FA Cup , have Liverpool next week and are going on a European tour with a load more attractive fixtures what A load of Cnut
Couldn't sleep last night after their win. The only way out this darkness is
Back to back promotions followed by winning the Premier league or
Back to back promotions, qualify for champions league and win that the next season.
Scrap that there's no way out. Wherever I choose to go today it will be in my face. Could possibly cope with that , but also need to get through the next months with them bring in Europe. Just been sent the projected group pots for Europa league , I feel sick. I do feel our club could've set up a few dedicated helplines for those of us struggling at this time. Need promotions big time next Sunday.
To compound yesterday, we'll go and lose next Sunday. You can see it coming.
Question for the people who always back English teams in Europe; will you be backing the Nigels?
For me, they've just joined Arsenal as the only two teams, who I'll back foreign opposition.
The only English teams I’ll ever back are the non-typical big 6 teams (ie - Villa, Newcastle).
That said, I’ll want Palace to get ruthlessly destroyed in the group stage.
Clubs like Chelsea, Man United I don’t see any reason to back. Largely foreign players, foreign fanbases and clubs that seemingly resent being part of the English football pyramid.
If terrible Spurs and Man U sides can get to the final, i worry that Palace could actually progress quite far in it. Being in Europe will also help them to sign better players and they will definitely need to make a few signings because whilst they have a decent enough first XI, they don't have a squad that's going to be able to compete in multiple trophies.
As i said previously, palace doing well is of miniscule importance compared to millwall doing well as palace is not something that happens in my world - they are over there and only became of real relevance when we had to ground share. The silver lining to us losing our status as the only major trophy winners south of the river is that millwall now become the only team not to have won a major trophy and puts them firmly into the loser bin. It's better how it was but its something and something i'm happy to remind millwall about
You not counting the Football League Trophy, mate? They won it when top flight teams entered, so Rothman’s count it as a ‘major’ trophy 🙃😘
Also… if we are talking ‘south’ London as a whole, Clapham, Chelsea and the old Wimbledon have all won it too tbf.
If you only count SE London, Charlton Athletic are still the only SE London club to win it.
Question for the people who always back English teams in Europe; will you be backing the Nigels?
For me, they've just joined Arsenal as the only two teams, who I'll back foreign opposition.
The only English teams I’ll ever back are the non-typical big 6 teams (ie - Villa, Newcastle).
That said, I’ll want Palace to get ruthlessly destroyed in the group stage.
Clubs like Chelsea, Man United I don’t see any reason to back. Largely foreign players, foreign fanbases and clubs that seemingly resent being part of the English football pyramid.
If terrible Spurs and Man U sides can get to the final, i worry that Palace could actually progress quite far in it. Being in Europe will also help them to sign better players and they will definitely need to make a few signings because whilst they have a decent enough first XI, they don't have a squad that's going to be able to compete in multiple trophies.
Frustratingly means they're more likely to be able to keep their better players too.
The great thing about Charlton fans are they are so level headed as demonstrated on CL ?
They have 7 chips on one shoulder about Palace and 7 chips on the other shoulder about Millwall.
A week before a 50/50 match in getting Charlton Athletic back to their home land of the Championship and the 2nd tier, they are focused on Palace who left Charlton behind long ago. The League cup game when we lost 4-1 with our 1st team against their reserves was when we waved goodbye in their tatty old stadium. The last close game was the 2-1 lost when Glenn Murray scored twice after Ben Hamer's slip. I took that loss badly as 1-0 up at HT and JJ should have buried his header to go 2 up 🤦🏻♂️
Palace have a hybrid fan base with more ethnic groups than I see at Charlton. I'm not talking about ground hoppers or Football tourists. Many of their supporters live in Surrey but Thornton heath is very diverse as well as West Croydon where English isn't spoken very often.
Because of my Bermondsey roots I suffered more if we lost to Millwall because in many of those games we were higher in the table FFS.
Tribal rivalry is an ancient feral state and Charlton should probably focus on Millwall our nearest rival, IF and when we reached the promised land of the 2nd tier as opposed to a Premier team, with an FA cup win and European football next season.
Jealousy eats you up as I know with my hatred of Chelsea ! 😤
Sam, it’s not just about tribalism. I have friends who decided to become palace fans two or three years ago. They’ve always been very patronising about Charlton, and pretend to not even know which league we’re in.
The one thing I’ve had to counter their jibes was the fact that we’d actually won a major trophy and they hadn’t. Of course It should be water off a duck’s back, I know, but it does rile me up. They have no understanding of the history of the game. To them it’s all about the Premier League. I guarantee if palace were relegated they’d soon lose interest.
When Charlton reached the Premier League, we had new fans as well. Staying with my parents one weekend in Canterbury I got the coach up from the Victoria Pub. One 'fan' was a recently retired weather man on Meridian; he knew all the current players TBF. Despite his age I knew he was a newbie as when I compared a player to John Humphrey's he didn't know who I was talking about ! Johnny H ! It would be like a fan not knowing about the late great Jimmy Seed. If Palace were ever relegated they would lose 'fans' like we did and the odious Chelsea did back in the day.
Not all 'fans' are "Charlton until I die"
That's show business.
I had a customer from the Bromley area who was an Arsenal fan, as were his sons. For years though he had a season ticket for him and his three sons at the Valley during your PL days. He just got them so he could watch cheap live PL football on a regular basis. I don’t think he’s been back since you got relegated.
I've got a cousin (estranged) who was exactly the same. Went Premier League years and was full on plastic Charlton, then reverted back to Arsenal. Don't think gives Charlton the time if day anymore. At least that's how it was last time we spoke
The great thing about Charlton fans are they are so level headed as demonstrated on CL ?
They have 7 chips on one shoulder about Palace and 7 chips on the other shoulder about Millwall.
A week before a 50/50 match in getting Charlton Athletic back to their home land of the Championship and the 2nd tier, they are focused on Palace who left Charlton behind long ago. The League cup game when we lost 4-1 with our 1st team against their reserves was when we waved goodbye in their tatty old stadium. The last close game was the 2-1 lost when Glenn Murray scored twice after Ben Hamer's slip. I took that loss badly as 1-0 up at HT and JJ should have buried his header to go 2 up 🤦🏻♂️
Palace have a hybrid fan base with more ethnic groups than I see at Charlton. I'm not talking about ground hoppers or Football tourists. Many of their supporters live in Surrey but Thornton heath is very diverse as well as West Croydon where English isn't spoken very often.
Because of my Bermondsey roots I suffered more if we lost to Millwall because in many of those games we were higher in the table FFS.
Tribal rivalry is an ancient feral state and Charlton should probably focus on Millwall our nearest rival, IF and when we reached the promised land of the 2nd tier as opposed to a Premier team, with an FA cup win and European football next season.
Jealousy eats you up as I know with my hatred of Chelsea ! 😤
Sam, it’s not just about tribalism. I have friends who decided to become palace fans two or three years ago. They’ve always been very patronising about Charlton, and pretend to not even know which league we’re in.
The one thing I’ve had to counter their jibes was the fact that we’d actually won a major trophy and they hadn’t. Of course It should be water off a duck’s back, I know, but it does rile me up. They have no understanding of the history of the game. To them it’s all about the Premier League. I guarantee if palace were relegated they’d soon lose interest.
When Charlton reached the Premier League, we had new fans as well. Staying with my parents one weekend in Canterbury I got the coach up from the Victoria Pub. One 'fan' was a recently retired weather man on Meridian; he knew all the current players TBF. Despite his age I knew he was a newbie as when I compared a player to John Humphrey's he didn't know who I was talking about ! Johnny H ! It would be like a fan not knowing about the late great Jimmy Seed. If Palace were ever relegated they would lose 'fans' like we did and the odious Chelsea did back in the day.
Not all 'fans' are "Charlton until I die"
That's show business.
I had a customer from the Bromley area who was an Arsenal fan, as were his sons. For years though he had a season ticket for him and his three sons at the Valley during your PL days. He just got them so he could watch cheap live PL football on a regular basis. I don’t think he’s been back since you got relegated.
I've got a cousin (estranged) who was exactly the same. Went Premier League years and was full on plastic Charlton, then reverted back to Arsenal. Don't think gives Charlton the time if day anymore. At least that's how it was last time we spoke
My customer never stopped being an Arsenal fan though. He literally just went to The Valley to watch a bit of cheap live PL football.
The great thing about Charlton fans are they are so level headed as demonstrated on CL ?
They have 7 chips on one shoulder about Palace and 7 chips on the other shoulder about Millwall.
A week before a 50/50 match in getting Charlton Athletic back to their home land of the Championship and the 2nd tier, they are focused on Palace who left Charlton behind long ago. The League cup game when we lost 4-1 with our 1st team against their reserves was when we waved goodbye in their tatty old stadium. The last close game was the 2-1 lost when Glenn Murray scored twice after Ben Hamer's slip. I took that loss badly as 1-0 up at HT and JJ should have buried his header to go 2 up 🤦🏻♂️
Palace have a hybrid fan base with more ethnic groups than I see at Charlton. I'm not talking about ground hoppers or Football tourists. Many of their supporters live in Surrey but Thornton heath is very diverse as well as West Croydon where English isn't spoken very often.
Because of my Bermondsey roots I suffered more if we lost to Millwall because in many of those games we were higher in the table FFS.
Tribal rivalry is an ancient feral state and Charlton should probably focus on Millwall our nearest rival, IF and when we reached the promised land of the 2nd tier as opposed to a Premier team, with an FA cup win and European football next season.
Jealousy eats you up as I know with my hatred of Chelsea ! 😤
Sam, it’s not just about tribalism. I have friends who decided to become palace fans two or three years ago. They’ve always been very patronising about Charlton, and pretend to not even know which league we’re in.
The one thing I’ve had to counter their jibes was the fact that we’d actually won a major trophy and they hadn’t. Of course It should be water off a duck’s back, I know, but it does rile me up. They have no understanding of the history of the game. To them it’s all about the Premier League. I guarantee if palace were relegated they’d soon lose interest.
When Charlton reached the Premier League, we had new fans as well. Staying with my parents one weekend in Canterbury I got the coach up from the Victoria Pub. One 'fan' was a recently retired weather man on Meridian; he knew all the current players TBF. Despite his age I knew he was a newbie as when I compared a player to John Humphrey's he didn't know who I was talking about ! Johnny H ! It would be like a fan not knowing about the late great Jimmy Seed. If Palace were ever relegated they would lose 'fans' like we did and the odious Chelsea did back in the day.
Not all 'fans' are "Charlton until I die"
That's show business.
I had a customer from the Bromley area who was an Arsenal fan, as were his sons. For years though he had a season ticket for him and his three sons at the Valley during your PL days. He just got them so he could watch cheap live PL football on a regular basis. I don’t think he’s been back since you got relegated.
And your lot have thousands upon thousands who associate themselves with the club purely because of the historic reputation and have either never been to a game in their lives or else only turn up for the big games or when there's a chance it will go off.
Hopefully the European games will get in their way and harm their league position.
As we've seen in the last couple of years though, newly promoted sides struggle to even get to 30 points now, so Palace would require a serious meltdown to end up in any relegation trouble.
The way English football is now, any London club could fill a 40,000 capacity stadium.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
I am surprised Palace aren’t looking to build a new stadium tbh. Selhurst Park is hardly a historic & charismatic old ground. It’s holding them back. If they built a new 45,000 capacity stadium somewhere else, they’d fill it. Maybe only a lack of suitable sites stopping them?
The way English football is now, any London club could fill a 40,000 capacity stadium.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
I am surprised Palace aren’t looking to build a new stadium tbh. Selhurst Park is hardly a historic & charismatic old ground. It’s holding them back. If they built a new 45,000 capacity stadium somewhere else, they’d fill it. Maybe only a lack of suitable sites stopping them?
I think they've decided to just expand Selhurst (to 34k) which will be a lot lot cheaper than building a new stadium.
The way English football is now, any London club could fill a 40,000 capacity stadium.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
I am surprised Palace aren’t looking to build a new stadium tbh. Selhurst Park is hardly a historic & charismatic old ground. It’s holding them back. If they built a new 45,000 capacity stadium somewhere else, they’d fill it. Maybe only a lack of suitable sites stopping them?
I think they've decided to just expand Selhurst (to 34k) which will be a lot lot cheaper than building a new stadium.
Finding suitable sites in London is a nightmare. Even Roman Abramovich couldn't find a new site for Chelsea
The way English football is now, any London club could fill a 40,000 capacity stadium.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
I am surprised Palace aren’t looking to build a new stadium tbh. Selhurst Park is hardly a historic & charismatic old ground. It’s holding them back. If they built a new 45,000 capacity stadium somewhere else, they’d fill it. Maybe only a lack of suitable sites stopping them?
I think they've decided to just expand Selhurst (to 34k) which will be a lot lot cheaper than building a new stadium.
That keeps hitting issues though. As it is an awful site to try and develop.
If I was them, I would look at building a 45-50k stadium near M25.
Imagine being a European side, you're finally in Europe.
You get a draw against a team from the English Premier League, its Crystal Palace, not generally known by the wide European community, but you get a ticket because its a chance to visit a Premier League stadium... and its f**king Selhurst Park!!
Their entry into the Europa League should be revoked their entry, purely on the grounds that they'll give the Premier League a bad name, and bring the League into disrepute!!
How does Charlton resurrect this rather shit situation.
We get promoted.
Instantly drawn into the fa cup 3rd round.
We cause an upset, maybe even knock palace out....then we surprisingly reach the QF, bit of luck on our side. Next thing we know, we are in the cup final and we bloody win it in 2026
Shrug our shoulders and casually say yeh we won the FA cup, I know palace did last season but so what - we did it.
Then the likes of Susana Reid has a casual sexy angry devastated look on her face the following morning when presenting Good morning Britain!
The way English football is now, any London club could fill a 40,000 capacity stadium.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
I am surprised Palace aren’t looking to build a new stadium tbh. Selhurst Park is hardly a historic & charismatic old ground. It’s holding them back. If they built a new 45,000 capacity stadium somewhere else, they’d fill it. Maybe only a lack of suitable sites stopping them?
I think they've decided to just expand Selhurst (to 34k) which will be a lot lot cheaper than building a new stadium.
That keeps hitting issues though. As it is an awful site to try and develop.
If I was them, I would look at building a 45-50k stadium near M25.
I thought the redevelopment was starting this summer?
The way English football is now, any London club could fill a 40,000 capacity stadium.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
I am surprised Palace aren’t looking to build a new stadium tbh. Selhurst Park is hardly a historic & charismatic old ground. It’s holding them back. If they built a new 45,000 capacity stadium somewhere else, they’d fill it. Maybe only a lack of suitable sites stopping them?
I think they've decided to just expand Selhurst (to 34k) which will be a lot lot cheaper than building a new stadium.
That keeps hitting issues though. As it is an awful site to try and develop.
If I was them, I would look at building a 45-50k stadium near M25.
I thought the redevelopment was starting this summer?
Maybe, maybe not. It constantly hits snags. They’d be better off biting bullet and building new stadium.
And before I get accused of being a Palace fan, as well as Millwall, I just like my football history & reading about football developments! Ie a football geek. 🙄
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What a shocking day.
Arsenal fans, however much they dislike Man U, will be desperate for Man U to beat Spurs on Wednesday, to stop Spurs winning something and reach the Champions League.
Spurs fans will have cheered on PSG as they beat Arsenal.
The Leicester fans last week were ecstatic at their last minute equaliser last week against Forest, as it massively dented Forest's chance of reaching the Champions League.
Also… if we are talking ‘south’ London as a whole, Clapham, Chelsea and the old Wimbledon have all won it too tbf.
If Bromley were plonked into the PL and given a 40,000 stadium and had reasonable ticket prices, they’d sell-out most games with floating Arsenal, Chelsea etc fans, tourists, locals wanting to watch live PL football.
You get a draw against a team from the English Premier League, its Crystal Palace, not generally known by the wide European community, but you get a ticket because its a chance to visit a Premier League stadium... and its f**king Selhurst Park!!
Their entry into the Europa League should be revoked their entry, purely on the grounds that they'll give the Premier League a bad name, and bring the League into disrepute!!
We get promoted.
Instantly drawn into the fa cup 3rd round.
We cause an upset, maybe even knock palace out....then we surprisingly reach the QF, bit of luck on our side. Next thing we know, we are in the cup final and we bloody win it in 2026
Shrug our shoulders and casually say yeh we won the FA cup, I know palace did last season but so what - we did it.
Then the likes of Susana Reid has a casual sexy angry devastated look on her face the following morning when presenting Good morning Britain!