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Chelsea losing is making the weekend better and better

There's an argument we've been at war for years, just not in the sense of mass armed conflict between the biggest nations. Poisonings here and elsewhere, espionage apparently increasing, technology as a state means of mass surveillance of foreign populations (Huawei accusations for eg), hacking...

Actually...I was wrong, they've got better. At the point they wrote that letter they'd played the same number of games as now and had 5 more points. Maybe it was Zaha that was holding them back.

The open letter to Roy and the board from 3 years ago could have been written today. All that's changed for them since then is they've got worse.

I've just worked it out. 2010 seconds is 33.5 minutes. All those who left at that time were doing so in protest at CPFC2010 laying claim to the club that existed before that time

Could see their fans getting a bit angry with the players after the match. Not happy bunnies. Credit to whoever the player is who went for a chat though.

I couldn't believe how many of the "best supporters in the league" seemed to get lost at half time and never found their way back to their seats. Perhaps our signage needs work?

I think he'll be off. Similar to the quote above there was something said either by him or one of his coaching team around the time he joined about how he has a 2 year shelf life before his intensity is too much, probably for him as much as anyone else.

This incredible image made me look up what I suspected, and the Premier League is currently Alan-less, despite having had over 40 players named Alan since it began. The closest at the moment is that there's an Alan in HaALANd. I think he should grow a mullet in tribute to those that have gone...

It makes me nostalgic for the times you could go to football and rugby and no one would tell you what and when to sing or cheer or whether you should be excited, and it seemed to work really well.

More nervous about when we play Chelsea next. The few Palace fans I know are reasonable human beings who enjoy the rivalry, but the Chelsea fans of my acquaintance are nauseous Roman-era glory hunters who literally treat playing us like their cup final and can't get enough of gloating if they win.

"Those Who Fall" by John Muirhead is a good book for the viewpoint of an American bomber pilot. He was based in Italy before being shot down and becoming a POW, and from memory it's quite poetically written and not in any way at all gung-ho or as cliche ridden as the average war film.

I booked my train tickets for most of Feb after the game and discovered moving a meeting to accommodate someone else has added £55 to my un-reclaimable travel cost for the month.

Originally couldn't go to the Spurs game because of other gubbins going on so didn't get a ticket, but now I can go. If someone can't go and notifies the club does the ticket get put back up for sale? (I'm kind of hoping there might be an epic flounce or two after last night and some might...

Around the time Sam Altman left OpenAI there were a few stories around that the AGI breakthrough wasn't as far off as we'd perhaps like to think, and was even linked to his departure...

My old next door neighbour grew up in Crawley and was a Palace fan. He claimed they were geographically closer than Brighton and a more natural team for Crawley-ites to support. I guess it might depend where in Crawley someone lives but Google reckons Brighton is marginally closer (couple of miles).

Old enough to know a Jaffa Cake isn't a biscuit

I thought all the officials did well - everything that was VAR checked they got right first time too. From where I was I couldn't really see anything contentious in any of their decisions if I remove my blue and white bias. I thought the ref against Wolves on Monday was good too, mostly because...

I'm very excited about this. I'm going to make a tin foil WBBWC trophy.