[Albion] Palace Fans Biggest Fear

[pigmanovich]

first chalobah recalled and now this.



european push now looking slightly in jeopardy…

Certainly not encouraging for Palace but worth noting he’s played all of 90 minutes this season, against West Ham back in August. A bit like if Milner suffered a setback in his recovery!

 

[macbeth]

Certainly not encouraging for Palace but worth noting he’s played all of 90 minutes this season, against West Ham back in August. A bit like if Milner suffered a setback in his recovery!

was more the doucoure bit i was drawn to!

 

[pigmanovich]

was more the doucoure bit i was drawn to!

True - him only coming on for the last five minutes at the Amex in December didn't do us much good though

 

[barbus_max bhafc]

Real shame they’ve got a few injuries, let’s hope it continues then we’ll see how bad a squad they really have

 

[Change at Barnham]

It’s a pretty popular song for teams to come out to ( I personally have never really liked the song )

Football clubs that use "Glad All Over"

• Crystal Palace: A fan favorite at Selhurst Park, the song is often played after a home goal
  
  
• Blackpool: The song is played after a home goal and is considered the club's anthem
  
  
• Rotherham United: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Barrow: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Macclesfield: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Port Vale: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Swindon Town: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Working: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Yeovil Town: The song is used by this English Football League team
  
  
• Rangers: The song is used by this Scottish Football League club
  
  
• Partick Thistle: The song is used by this Scottish Football League club
  
  
• Dunfermline Athletic: The song is used by this Scottish Football League club
  
  
• Shamrock Rovers: The song is used by this Irish football club

And Man City fans also sing along to the lyrics "We've got Guardiola"

 

[Change at Barnham]

The i Paper - Crystal Palace are stuck in a holding pattern of endless fear and mediocrity

This really is a lovely piece of journalism.
The writer beautifully encapsulates how it must feel to be a Palace fan.

A clip:
"This is a club stuck in a holding pattern, trapped between fear of failure and fear of hubris, condemned to comfortable, shapeless mediocrity for time immemorial.
Optimism never lasts long enough to become something real, diluted every time by memories of the last time they dared to hope.
And so we end up here: confecting outrage at a correct VAR call just to feel something.
Telling Will Hughes to shoot into traffic from 25 yards, twice, just to feel something. Grasping onto an illusion the club is going somewhere, that progress might be over the horizon, just to feel something. Overreacting to the highs and lows because otherwise everything is just numb and meaningless.
There are clear benefits to how Steve Parish has run Palace over the past decade. Relegation has never been a genuine threat. One FA Cup final and another semi.
The 26th-highest revenue in the world, 11th-highest in England, according to the Deloitte Money League 2025. Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) breaches have never been a threat. This is provably, tangibly good governance, from the Daniel Levy school.
But the issue comes from the intangibles. Why do Palace actually exist? Who is this all for? What are a football club supposed to provide? Surely more than this.
There never seems any real depth to the misery or elation at Palace because there’s an acceptance that everything will always be okay – nothing more, nothing less. There can only be so much jeopardy, so much joy, when so little is being risked. There is a reason skydiving out of ground-floor windows has never caught on."

 

[brighton_tom]

The i Paper - Crystal Palace are stuck in a holding pattern of endless fear and mediocrity

This really is a lovely piece of journalism.
The writer beautifully encapsulates how it must feel to be a Palace fan.

A clip:
"This is a club stuck in a holding pattern, trapped between fear of failure and fear of hubris, condemned to comfortable, shapeless mediocrity for time immemorial.
Optimism never lasts long enough to become something real, diluted every time by memories of the last time they dared to hope.
And so we end up here: confecting outrage at a correct VAR call just to feel something.
Telling Will Hughes to shoot into traffic from 25 yards, twice, just to feel something. Grasping onto an illusion the club is going somewhere, that progress might be over the horizon, just to feel something. Overreacting to the highs and lows because otherwise everything is just numb and meaningless.
There are clear benefits to how Steve Parish has run Palace over the past decade. Relegation has never been a genuine threat. One FA Cup final and another semi.
The 26th-highest revenue in the world, 11th-highest in England, according to the Deloitte Money League 2025. Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) breaches have never been a threat. This is provably, tangibly good governance, from the Daniel Levy school.
But the issue comes from the intangibles. Why do Palace actually exist? Who is this all for? What are a football club supposed to provide? Surely more than this.
There never seems any real depth to the misery or elation at Palace because there’s an acceptance that everything will always be okay – nothing more, nothing less. There can only be so much jeopardy, so much joy, when so little is being risked. There is a reason skydiving out of ground-floor windows has never caught on."

And there it is. The question so many people ask.

 

[eaglesdan]

This could be applied to so many other clubs. We know that in all honesty, the aim each season is to finish 17th or better and have the odd cup run. On Sunday, I, like many was fuming at the injustice of the VAR decision for the penalty. From the other end of the ground, of course it looked unjust. I would say many of you would do the same if it involved BHA. To ask why Palace exist is such a silly question, and can be applied to so many other clubs that know where their levels are, and dream of a cup final, or at least a semi final. We dont have money to burn, so to compare with Spurs is daft. We have a stadium 1/3 of the size, and an income much less.
I'd ask if the same could be applied to Brighton, why do they exist, are they ever likely to move on to greater things? The excursion into Europe, the odd cup semi final, very occasionally a final (and Smith must score...), is it really any different?

 

[Birdie Boy]

Given that so many clubs sing glad all over it was weird R5 spent nearly half an hour discussing this 'Palace anthem'.
It's almost as of they didn't do any research.

Probably due to none of the others playing in the EPL and so don't exist...

 

[nickbrighton]

This could be applied to so many other clubs. We know that in all honesty, the aim each season is to finish 17th or better and have the odd cup run. On Sunday, I, like many was fuming at the injustice of the VAR decision for the penalty. From the other end of the ground, of course it looked unjust. I would say many of you would do the same if it involved BHA. To ask why Palace exist is such a silly question, and can be applied to so many other clubs that know where their levels are, and dream of a cup final, or at least a semi final. We dont have money to burn, so to compare with Spurs is daft. We have a stadium 1/3 of the size, and an income much less.
I'd ask if the same could be applied to Brighton, why do they exist, are they ever likely to move on to greater things? The excursion into Europe, the odd cup semi final, very occasionally a final (and Smith must score...), is it really any different?

If we are all honest with ourselves, the aim of any club in the Premier League is to stay there. Even the some of the so called Big Six are not immune to flirting with relegation, just take a look at Man Utd and Spurs this season. Are they in actual danger of relegation-probably not, but should Ipswich and Wolves suddenly get the bit of luck that their performances deserve and a few results go their way it would suddenly be a lot closer than comfort would like

We even have the relegation tracker, that many of us look to after every game, and like it or not the first (but not only) target will always be 40 points. All of us are just a bad run of results, bad managerial appointment from being in the mix at the bottom

Like it or not, Palace have been in the prem longer than us, and for the majority of the time we have been here have been above us come the seasons end. The difference between the clubs on field performance is not as far apart as some here like to think, and while we do have a European finish to boast , that so far is a once only thing, and Palace are steadily getting closer to us this season after a dreadful start

What are our actual realistic goals- top 4 on a regular basis is not really viable-TB simply doesnt have the money. So we can aim to be the best of the rest-but plenty of other clubs have more resources than us, Villa, Newcastle, for example. A good cup run, and with a bit of luck a final , but just take a look at who has won the FA and League Cups over the past 15 years to see how often it isn't the top few clubs

We are all basically trying to survive and compete on an uneven basis- and I say our big success (and Palace's) is that we are still here, still beating the big boys reasonably regularly and that is the point of us , and Palace, and Brentford .

 

[Monkey Man]

If we are all honest with ourselves, the aim of any club in the Premier League is to stay there. Even the some of the so called Big Six are not immune to flirting with relegation, just take a look at Man Utd and Spurs this season. Are they in actual danger of relegation-probably not, but should Ipswich and Wolves suddenly get the bit of luck that their performances deserve and a few results go their way it would suddenly be a lot closer than comfort would like

We even have the relegation tracker, that many of us look to after every game, and like it or not the first (but not only) target will always be 40 points. All of us are just a bad run of results, bad managerial appointment from being in the mix at the bottom

Like it or not, Palace have been in the prem longer than us, and for the majority of the time we have been here have been above us come the seasons end. The difference between the clubs on field performance is not as far apart as some here like to think, and while we do have a European finish to boast , that so far is a once only thing, and Palace are steadily getting closer to us this season after a dreadful start

What are our actual realistic goals- top 4 on a regular basis is not really viable-TB simply doesnt have the money. So we can aim to be the best of the rest-but plenty of other clubs have more resources than us, Villa, Newcastle, for example. A good cup run, and with a bit of luck a final , but just take a look at who has won the FA and League Cups over the past 15 years to see how often it isn't the top few clubs

We are all basically trying to survive and compete on an uneven basis- and I say our big success (and Palace's) is that we are still here, still beating the big boys reasonably regularly and that is the point of us , and Palace, and Brentford .

Good points made by both you and Eaglesdan. I don't disagree with any of it really.

I sometimes think it's best not to scrutinise this stuff too carefully or we'd all eventually come to the conclusion: what's the point of being a supporter of any club?

I support Brighton out of habit and suspect I will keep going to games until it becomes physically impossible. But why do I do it? What am I hoping for? Do the highs cancel out the lows? Do I make any difference? Is it worth the expense? As I say – best not to analyse it in too much depth.

I work with someone who adores true crime podcasts and fantasy stuff like Game of Thrones, all of which leaves me completely cold. She feels the same way about football. We both think each other are mental.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I remember chatting to some Stoke fans, when we played them in the first season.

They were talking exactly the same way.
What's the point, once you've done all the away days?

Then they went down.
And haven't looked like coming back, since.

 

[Jeremiah]

It's the hope that kills you.

 

[Insel affe]

It's the hope that kills you.

Nah, that is bollox, it's the hope that one day we might win something that keeps me alive.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

This could be applied to so many other clubs. We know that in all honesty, the aim each season is to finish 17th or better and have the odd cup run. On Sunday, I, like many was fuming at the injustice of the VAR decision for the penalty. From the other end of the ground, of course it looked unjust. I would say many of you would do the same if it involved BHA. To ask why Palace exist is such a silly question, and can be applied to so many other clubs that know where their levels are, and dream of a cup final, or at least a semi final. We dont have money to burn, so to compare with Spurs is daft. We have a stadium 1/3 of the size, and an income much less.
I'd ask if the same could be applied to Brighton, why do they exist, are they ever likely to move on to greater things? The excursion into Europe, the odd cup semi final, very occasionally a final (and Smith must score...), is it really any different?

Have to say @eaglesdan if you took a neutrals look at this wouldn't you say Brighton had progressed in so many areas. It wasn't long ago we'd sold all of our best players and we were going to be relegated? We've spent on the squad, played in Europe, and could qualify this season, we've vastly improved club infrastructure, not an empty promise, a factual change on the ground, and we're slowly, but positively progressing in the Premier League.

If you had to bet your house on which club would be in a better place in five years time, where would you place your chip?

 

[Wardy's twin]

There arent many teams that have a unique anthem . Most people in England would recognise YNWA as Liverpool, but several clubs use it-Borrusia and Celtic for example. Its hardly unique and other than being sung by Gerry and the Pacemakers 20 years after it was written, doesnt have historical links to Liverpool

Sussex By The Sea must be one of the few anthems that is linked historically not only to the club but to the actual area , SCCC use it as well, its a proper Sussex Anthem. Is there any club with a similar link to their song? Even Z Cars is used by Watford and Everton

It was sung in the north stand at the goldstone in late 60's and early 70's.

 

[Brian Munich]

The i Paper - Crystal Palace are stuck in a holding pattern of endless fear and mediocrity

This really is a lovely piece of journalism.
The writer beautifully encapsulates how it must feel to be a Palace fan.

A clip:
"This is a club stuck in a holding pattern, trapped between fear of failure and fear of hubris, condemned to comfortable, shapeless mediocrity for time immemorial.
Optimism never lasts long enough to become something real, diluted every time by memories of the last time they dared to hope.
And so we end up here: confecting outrage at a correct VAR call just to feel something.
Telling Will Hughes to shoot into traffic from 25 yards, twice, just to feel something. Grasping onto an illusion the club is going somewhere, that progress might be over the horizon, just to feel something. Overreacting to the highs and lows because otherwise everything is just numb and meaningless.
There are clear benefits to how Steve Parish has run Palace over the past decade. Relegation has never been a genuine threat. One FA Cup final and another semi.
The 26th-highest revenue in the world, 11th-highest in England, according to the Deloitte Money League 2025. Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) breaches have never been a threat. This is provably, tangibly good governance, from the Daniel Levy school.
But the issue comes from the intangibles. Why do Palace actually exist? Who is this all for? What are a football club supposed to provide? Surely more than this.
There never seems any real depth to the misery or elation at Palace because there’s an acceptance that everything will always be okay – nothing more, nothing less. There can only be so much jeopardy, so much joy, when so little is being risked. There is a reason skydiving out of ground-floor windows has never caught on."

PSR may never have been a threat, but they’ve lost 10s of millions most years. It’s got to get a bit tedious funding those losses

If we are all honest with ourselves, the aim of any club in the Premier League is to stay there. Even the some of the so called Big Six are not immune to flirting with relegation, just take a look at Man Utd and Spurs this season. Are they in actual danger of relegation-probably not, but should Ipswich and Wolves suddenly get the bit of luck that their performances deserve and a few results go their way it would suddenly be a lot closer than comfort would like

We even have the relegation tracker, that many of us look to after every game, and like it or not the first (but not only) target will always be 40 points. All of us are just a bad run of results, bad managerial appointment from being in the mix at the bottom

Like it or not, Palace have been in the prem longer than us, and for the majority of the time we have been here have been above us come the seasons end. The difference between the clubs on field performance is not as far apart as some here like to think, and while we do have a European finish to boast , that so far is a once only thing, and Palace are steadily getting closer to us this season after a dreadful start

What are our actual realistic goals- top 4 on a regular basis is not really viable-TB simply doesnt have the money. So we can aim to be the best of the rest-but plenty of other clubs have more resources than us, Villa, Newcastle, for example. A good cup run, and with a bit of luck a final , but just take a look at who has won the FA and League Cups over the past 15 years to see how often it isn't the top few clubs

We are all basically trying to survive and compete on an uneven basis- and I say our big success (and Palace's) is that we are still here, still beating the big boys reasonably regularly and that is the point of us , and Palace, and Brentford .

Managing to finish in the top 6 in our 6th season was a massive acheivement, especially as we did it by turning a profit overall in those 6 seasons of Premier League football. It's subjective, but I'd take that and the subsequent European Tour any day over reaching the Premier League 4 years earlier finishing mid-lower table every season and never getting more than 49 points.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

first chalobah recalled and now this.



european push now looking slightly in jeopardy…

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

 

[loz]

PSR may never have been a threat, but they’ve lost 10s of millions most years. It’s got to get a bit tedious funding those losses

Managing to finish in the top 6 in our 6th season was a massive acheivement, especially as we did it by turning a profit overall in those 6 seasons of Premier League football. It's subjective, but I'd take that and the subsequent European Tour any day over reaching the Premier League 4 years earlier finishing mid-lower table every season and never getting more than 49 points.

There has been an FA cup final and a semi final in those years so not all monotonou.

 

[loz]

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

That’s not nice.

Take aim at the club but that’s a 21 year old boy who has potential career ending injury.