Absolutely and utterly this,
The Palace rivalry was contrived in the 1970's because, well, we didn't really have any rivals as such.. To me the closest to a real derby that we have is with Pompey, and l can remember a gkood few battles with them back in the day. A shame in many ways that we...
Hmmm then again home fixtures against Fulham, Sheffield United, and Burnley could have been considered favourable could they not?
Now remind me how many wins we picked up from those games? Just saying that's all.
Surprised no one has mentioned Sir Glenn's last gasp winner at St.Andrews in our promotion season, before he ran the entire length of the pitch hotly persued by virtually the entire team, to celebrate in front of us jubilant fans.
Indeed it was from that moment that l finally acknowledged that...
I don't know that it's on the cards, but certainly with no extra games to worry about until March, and a chance to get most if not all of our long term injured up and running again (excuse the pun), it's certainly possible,
I honestly think l'll be fine with it, it isn't as if we will be exiting the competition if we do lose, it simply means we will have an extra game to play, (not sure if that's home and away).
In any case it's simply a privilege to get the chance to play in Europe, and not something that l ever...