Being fit to wear the shirt.

[Saint Lennard]

To me it is one of the most irrelevant chants but Saturday I was surprised our friends in Croydon ("best supporter in EPL") were singing you're not fit to wear the shirt. Why have the same players been fit to wear it previous weeks? Anyway what I wanted to find out was whether this is in the same category as "too good to go down"? And whether anyone on hear has shouted at hat to an Albion team or player?

 

[Bozza]

Are we sure it wasn't directed at Sam?

"You're too fat to wear the shirt"

 

[Mellotron]

Gonna say - Palace players PERFECTLY suit wearing their shirt at the moment. They are absolutely an embodiment of their owners.

 

[Postman Pat]

Did this ever get sung to Leon Best in his stint here? It would have been suitable on so many levels if so.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Maybe it was "You're not fit to wear a skirt".

 

[Triggaaar]

Gonna say - Palace players PERFECTLY suit wearing their shirt at the moment. They are absolutely an embodiment of their owners.

Indeed, surely shirts come in all designs and sizes. I dare say Johnny Vegas isn't fit to wear my shirts, but I'm struggling to think of a human that isn't fit to wear that Palace shit.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Indeed, surely shirts come in all designs and sizes. I dare say Johnny Vegas isn't fit to wear my shirts, but I'm struggling to think of a human that isn't fit to wear that Palace shit.

Well quite.

 

[lawros left foot]

I remember when Wolves came to the Amex a few seasons ago, first time I had ever heard even opposing supporters (us) singing it to a team.

They did stink the place out though.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Louise probably was

 

[Lady Whistledown]

David Bowie and Roy Wood here: definitely fit to wear the shirt.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I'm sure we've sung it to our players before - I'm sure I've sung it - trying to think when though

 

[Goldstone1976]

Well quite.

#9 too! The very embodiment (pun intended) of "he's a big lad up front" (pun intended)

 

[lawros left foot]

David Bowie and Roy Wood here: definitely fit to wear the shirt.

Is the bloke on the right, a Jimmy Saville tribute act?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Amazing how many celebrity fans Palace actually have, when you look at it. It's only flipping Noel Gallagher now too.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Louise probably was

Ah my favourite mid 90s crush

 

[Bozza]

Amazing how many celebrity fans Palace actually have, when you look at it. It's only flipping Noel Gallagher now too.

Surprised to see him cosying up with Rafa Bentiez.

Next ex-Newcastle manager in waiting for Palace presumably.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

To me it is one of the most irrelevant chants

Is it?

Surely its the clearest message fans of a club can give their team - and usually only reserved for a side that are perceived to not CARE - in the way that the fans do, about their beloved club. I've never heard fans sing it at their team JUST for being shit - usually signifies a real breakdown in the fan / player relationship.

The Wolves match at the Amex, referenced above was the ultimate. It was clear that those fans utterly detested that some of those lazy mercenaries were wearing that shirt, and didn't give two shits about (another) relegation. They sang it long and hard, and when those players threw their shirts into the crowd at the end, the fans threw them back.

 

[whitelion]

Is it?

Surely its the clearest message fans of a club can give their team - and usually only reserved for a side that are perceived to not CARE - in the way that the fans do, about their beloved club. I've never heard fans sing it at their team JUST for being shit - usually signifies a real breakdown in the fan / player relationship.

The Wolves match at the Amex, referenced above was the ultimate. It was clear that those fans utterly detested that some of those lazy mercenaries were wearing that shirt, and didn't give two shits about (another) relegation. They sang it long and hard, and when those players threw their shirts into the crowd at the end, the fans threw them back.

A lot of it was directed at Jamie O'Hara recently released by Gillingham and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I'd gladly settle for some of our players just being fit.

 

[The Auditor]

at Rochdale .... 29 October 1996 ... lost 3-0 ....we were shocking ....