[Football] Were palace singing abut being the oldest football club?

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

In the first half palace were singing a dirge where the only line I could make out was 'since 1861'

What was the song? Were they singing about their risible claim of being the ldest fotball club in the world? Or was it something else?

 

[portlock seagull]

Oldest stand I think it was

 

[chickens]

I think the first line was “we haven’t cleaned our bums…”

 

[peterward]

In the first half palace were singing a dirge where the only line I could make out was 'since 1861'

What was the song? Were they singing about their risible claim of being the ldest fotball club in the world? Or was it something else?

Strange chant for a 13 year old club formed in 2010.

Was it a reference to the now extinct club that died and went bankrupt?

 

[Brian Fantana]

Was 1861 the last time they played any football worth watching?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

All I could hear was the drum.

well until the 70th minute that is.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Strange chant for a 13 year old club formed in 2010.

Was it a reference to the now extinct club that died and went bankrupt?

That's the mystery. What the actual f*** were they singing about?

Part of me wants to believe that they're such a bunch of bellends that they actually would sing about a made up fantasy that they're the oldest club in the world and instrumental to the development and establishment of the sport. Another part thinks that despite being a bunch of bellends they can't be that laughable can they?

 

[peterward]

Was 1861 the last time they played any football worth watching?

I was 18 and she was 61.......

 

[studio150]

Forget the chants we must give them some bonus points for recycling their Christmas chocolate wrapping papers. It must have taken many hours to shift through the colours and then glue them together to make the little flags.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Forget the chants we must give them some bonus points for recycling their Christmas chocolate wrapping papers. It must have taken many hours to shift through the colours and then glue them together to make the little flags.

That banner looked like a BTEC Art project that failed to impress the examiners

 

[brightn'ove]

Seriously? That is painfully embarrassing.

 

[Triggaaar]

That's why I love Palace so much - they're just so consistently embarrassing.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Their claim is absolute hogwash. A company set up a club in 1861, it went bust in 1875. This company set up another club in 1905, this went bust in 2010. Their not even the oldest club in Croydon , let alone the country

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

No idea but relative to usual the atmosphere was crap yesterday from both sides.

 

[Happy Exile]

What makes this especially fantastic is the bloke respected by Palace as the club's historian has openly dismissed it as untrue and provided all the evidence to counter the 1861 claim, which has literally no evidence at all. A club did exist in the area in 1861, but nothing to do with them. As I believe he's said, it's enormously disrespectful to the people who actually did found the club. Writing their actual heroes out of the story to instead celebrate a myth sums them up perfectly.

 

[Triggaaar]

Their claim is absolute hogwash. A company set up a club in 1861, it went bust in 1875. This company set up another club in 1905, this went bust in 2010.

The club setup in 1905 went bust in 1999. It's the club setup in 1999 that went bust in 2010.

Difficult to keep up I know.

 

[Diallo]

I thought they were singing about the sell by date of their clubs hotdogs and burgers?

 

[Seasider78]

What makes me laugh about the palace fans is they are desperate to be seen as some sort of european hardcore ultras but in reality their shit chants and embarrassing ‘displays’ come across a bit MLS

 

[Uh_huh_him]

What makes me laugh about the palace fans is they are desperate to be seen as some sort of european hardcore ultras but in reality their shit chants and embarrassing ‘displays’ come across a bit MLS

I'm told the Ultra culture they are trying to emulate, tends to not stop singing just because their team are playing shit.

Last time I was there it was exactly the same, hardly heard from them for 70 minutes, then got louder after the equaliser.
No idea where they get this "best atmosphere" tag from. Pretty much the same as every other club.

 

[Diallo]

What makes me laugh about the palace fans is they are desperate to be seen as some sort of european hardcore ultras but in reality their shit chants and embarrassing ‘displays’ come across a bit MLS

We’ve got a few of these too. Brighton station about 40 minutes before kickoff seems to be where you’ll catch them best. They’re acting like they’re going to watch a football match in Helmand province.