Why do we call Palace fans 'pikeys' ?

[Gwylan]

Cardiff fans all shag sheep as its widely accepted that that’s the national passtime in the valleys.

This is a far weirder one than Palace pikeys: you won't see many sheep anywhere near Cardiff. I could understand Swansea or Wrexham being called sheepshaggers but not Cardiff.

Re Palace, I agree with Simster: Nigels is a much better term. I lived in CP area for a while (and worked in Croydon) and I didn't see anyone who I'd call a pikey.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

This is a far weirder one than Palace pikeys: you won't see many sheep anywhere near Cardiff. I could understand Swansea or Wrexham being called sheepshaggers but not Cardiff.

Re Palace, I agree with Simster: Nigels is a much better term. I lived in CP area for a while (and worked in Croydon) and I didn't see anyone who I'd call a pikey.

It's just the whole Welsh thing, football fans who chant such songs are not renowned for their accuracy!

 

[TheMajor]

"No,no,no the Pikeys are the Gillingham.These people are scum"

 

[Thunder Bolt]

"No,no,no the Pikeys are the Gillingham.These people are scum"

Got it in one.

 

[Simster]

Nor do I. Nigels fit much better. They are dull, desk clerks in their dreary north Surrey/Kent suburbs.

Yes all of us, of course. Just like you all take drugs and are gay. FFS, grow up

See. Look how it annoys them.

And the term "Nigels" is nothing to do with the East Ender actor. It's because it's a name that is typified by the people you see in dreary suburbia on the fringes of (but not properly IN) London.

 

[Hunting 784561]

I worked with a bloke called Nigel from Croydon, but then he moved to Purley.

Says it all really.

 

[perseus]

When the Palace burned down they became itinerants.

 

[fataddick]

Brighton call Palace fans 'the pikeys'.
Palace call Charlton fans 'the pikeys'.
Charlton call Gillingham fans 'the pikeys'.
I think the buck stops at Gillingham.
Maybe they should use the term for Brighton fans to complete the circle.

 

[salty seagull]

We call them pikeys because we don`t like to say c#nts in front of the children.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Chavs okay, but the whole caravan thing seems a little far fetched.

I have always regarded them as knuckle dragging Neanderthal troglodytes, but that can be a challenging concept to get across. So for now the Nigel's will just have to be mangy dog-pummellers.

 

[brightn'ove]

Perhaps this helps explain

 

[cannedheat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2VcKTYAw7E

 

[Thinker]

I've never met a gay Brighton supporter so same shit really?

Ahem....*cough*

 

[we-8-brighton]

lol you found that video too..
that really and truly does make me ashamed to be from croydon but then again it's not just contained here though is it