It’s not just Palace though. Rarely see an exciting game in the Premier League, may be 3 or 4 a season. Think no crowds are partially responsible, but I think it’s the possession based football of continually passing sideways and backwards and then waiting for the killer through ball. Rather than going for it, teams bide their time.

I used to refer to watching Spain as like death by a thousand cuts. The opposition rarely got the ball, and once they had got tired and bored to death shuffling sideways, Spain would score.

Effective but boring to watch. Most teams play like this now, or try to. We of course are one of the exceptions and are the team without the ball shuffling back and forth without the ball, showing all the movement of a table football team.

Football has become predictable as well, the ‘Pig Six’ wouldn’t have happened without Premier League money. But for me it’s teams concentrating on keeping the ball rather than trying to get forward to score every time they pick up the ball that has ruined the excitement.

We're an older squad, there is a severe lack of pace. We don't press, except for short periods, we don't make good runs, we drop deep - sometimes even against bottom sides. We also don't cross as ours cut inside, there is usually no one in the box anyhow. Roy is doing what he thinks will keep us up. That is probably true. However, our football is boring.
I see some posters are calling the Premier League boring. Whenever I see Leeds, Villa, Southampton (and the odd top 6 side) play, I think it's pretty exciting. They attack and press, the gegenpress basically, that won Liverpool the title last year. We can't do that as we don't have the pace or fitness. We're probably the most boring in the league, although I will say there are other rubbish games regularly - which I do blame on lack of crowds somewhat. The whole league is not a great standard this year. We look destined for 17th or so, next year we will be in trouble without an injection of pace.

Red and Blue Army!

I remember once upon a time I could watch a couple of games on the bounce at the weekend or would watch random champions league games now I struggle to hold my concentration to even watch Palace. Football is dying a death.

There is no doubt that the absence of a crowd is now seriously detracting from the game.

For a while there was a certain strange novelty in watching games in empty stadia. However, the atmosphere that a partisan crowd brings has always been a key ingredient of professional football.

After a year of this, I'm beginning to feel - what is the point? It's becoming a bit like theatres putting on plays with no audience.

Certainly Hodgson and the team would have come in for some serious flak if a crowd had been in attendance to witness some of the depressing fayre that has been served up this season.

If I’m watching a game and a goal is scored as soon as I hear “var is looking at this “ that’s it I’m done. I turn the TV off. I can’t be doing with it and I can’t see the fans standing for it when they return.

We already did put up with it plenty of times. However, it really does change the enjoyment. It's so depressing when a perfectly good goal is disallowed by a finger off side or a contentious foul ages before. Even when the opposition's goal is disallowed it does not make up for the sense of disappointment. It is ruining the game.
Another thing is the virtue signalling by multi millionaires, boo hoo, hard life, someone called you names! I don't agree with the abuse but the players can get over it!
They clearly abuse the opposition players and staff and the officials on the pitch constantly, but they want their cake and eat it. The little cry babies can get lost.

Red and Blue Army!