Whatever happened to loyalty in football?

To say the results haven't been good enough in 2016 is an understatement, and I wouldn't say I'm Pardew's biggest fan as a person, however, this is a manager who got us to the FA cup final, something that for many Palace fans born post 1990 cup final would only have ever occurred in their wildest dreams given the time spent in the considerable time spent in the Championship since.

In my 46 years of supporting Palace, I've never particularly considered us to be a big club, and whilst I'd like us to compete with the very best at the top of the Premier League, I'm realistic enough to accept this is unlikely to be the case and to be honest, it really doesn't bother me either. Therefore, the mindset of some supporters completely astonishes me. For example, I sit near the tunnel and the abuse AP received at the end of the game (a game in which we more than competed with the potential PL champions throughout) was quite frankly appalling. Where has this sense of entitlement shown by some of us come from. Were we expected to beat City (Just an example)? I'd imagine 90% of the football obsessed population of the UK plumped for an away win that day.

Ok, we've spent large sums of money in the summer to improve the squad, which the majority would agree was an improvement, but so have most other clubs in the league. And yes, the results haven't been good enough, but the performances have actually been reasonably good. Alan Pardew cannot defend set pieces for the team, so if his players let him down by switching off how can it possibly be considered his fault? On top of this, we've had some awful luck with injuries which none of us (including Pardew) would've foreseen, and in January we will no doubt rectify the lack of cover.

So my point is, would it be such a horrific act of 'arrogance' by Parish to stick by Pardew for the rest of the season? Or do we want Fat Sam to come in and revert back to the days of backs to the wall defending and maybe scraping the odd 1-0 here and there? We're the 5th top scorers in the league, but nobody wants to focus on the positives these days. I honestly do not believe we will go down this season, with or without Pardew and for once in football I'd like to see a bit of loyalty shown towards a man who genuinely cares about our club.

I'm sure that Jedinak, Speroni, Delaney and Puncheon who was consistently dropped for Cabaye and is always second to him for free kicks and all of us fans agree with you about loyalty. And let's not forget that AP gets paid next to nothing - poor man - he deserves all our loyalty.

Unfortunately I missed the win over stoke as I wasn't well. This means I've seen palace win 2 league games at selhurst park in 2016. Does it make me disloyal to expect better?