[Football] Croydon Shitehawks?

[The Seagull]

Admin- can you delete this thread ?

 

[maresfield seagull]

Palarse not work for you ?
The arsonists perhaps

 

[Frutos]

Grow up.

 

[WhingForPresident]

PalARSE

 

[zeemeeuw]

They seem to provide a bottomless pit of comedy of their own making without the need for us to provide an amusing name to add value.

 

[theboybilly]

Palarse

God I hate that

 

[Eeyore]

Exactly. Why belittle ourselves with using cringe worthy labels to describe the pikey scum, caravan dwelling knobheads who play in a shithole of a ground in an arsehole area of London supported by spotty faced twats wearing black hoodies who vandalise their own team coach.

The irony being, if we must engage in social discrimination, that the surrounding areas do have large pockets of affluence. Crystal Palace itself, the spiritual epicentre of the club, is one of the most desirable areas to live in London (and is actually part of Bromley not Croydon).

 

[Icy Gull]

Funny story people might not know:

In the mid-90s, England legend Debbie Bampton took charge over Croydon Women and turned them into the best women's team in England, winning several league titles with their super team (lots of England veterans, including Hope Powell).

They also won the double several times, including in their final season, 1999/00.

All was fine and well until June 2000 when the club was having their annual meeting. To everyones surprise, the players announced that they wanted to become Charlton Athletic instead. They just f***ed off from Croydon Arena the first chance they got. Sure, they got some small advantages - bit better facilities, didn't have to pay (membership) to play anymore and had someone wash their kits. But the main reason appears to be that they wanted to get the hell out of Croydon.

Must be a pretty shitty place.

You may or may not be aware that Charlton played home games at Selhurst for seven years, interestingly they were joint managed at the end of their stay there by ex Albion player Alan Curbishley and future manager Steve “got no hair” Gritt

 

[Smillie's People]

Exactly. Why belittle ourselves with using cringe worthy labels to describe the pikey scum, caravan dwelling knobheads who play in a shithole of a ground in an arsehole area of London supported by spotty faced twats wearing black hoodies who vandalise their own team coach.

Thank you Prine Harry.
Our new King actually likes the place, he supported Surrey Street market when it was threatened with being closed. Don't think he cares what happens to the i-360 though...

 

[Smillie's People]

You may or may not be aware that Charlton played home games at Selhurst for seven years, interestingly they were joint managed at the end of their stay there by ex Albion player Alan Curbishley and future manager Steve “got no hair” Gritt

Yes - irony of ironies the first time Palace played Charlton in the then Div. 1 was "away" at Selhurst, and Palace fans were given their home end. I seem to remember we won 3-0 or so, it was near Xmas and the Holmesdale chanted "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to see Palace win away.."

Ever since then Charlton have hated Palace. They loved it when they sent us down in 2005 in that incredible last day of the season, where four clubs at different times could have stayed up, in the end WBA did.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Excrement purely and simply. If I had the wings of a sparrow.....

 

[Red Squirrel]

FA Cup result: Palarse out Stains through

 

[Crouch End Seagull]

Crystal Phallus was Des Lynam’s accidental name for them on Grandstand once.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

No mention of "Palarse"
Does it for me ...

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Or...and stick with me on this one as its a novel concept...maybe just dont bother trying to find stupid nicknames for other teams?
Dont get wound up by a faux rivalry, act like an adult instead of a testosterone fueled teen, and just focus on enjoying the Albion instead?
Football is full of tribal angst anyway, without trying to come up with new ways of adding even more.

Maybe its just me that cant be bothered with all that crap though...

 

[jackalbion]

Surrey Boys works for me. But also I'm an adult so I generally call them 'Palace'

 

[Stato]

I also find the 'Palarse' thing incredibly annoying. Along with all bad puns on team names 'Chelski', 'Weeds', 'Wet Spam' etc.

If you feel that you must use a joke name, then with Palace, you don't have to think one up as they've already paid someone to do it for them...

Now that really was funny.

 

[Screaming J]

"Them" or "The Nigels" tends to be my instinctive reference to them.

 

[Whitley Bayster]

I thought that Millwall call them Nigels as they feel their fans are all a bit like the character Nigel in East Enders. A bit odd and hampless looking. I think its good fit

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

I find just calling them”Palace” with a large dose of contempt always gets the point across.

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