I have already had "PALACE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS 2018" tattooed on my bum in the certain knowledge that this will happen.

For the last 25 years I have been a fair weather supporter. I've not sat and watched the club on a Tuesday while they are losing to Accrington Stanley in the Mickey Mouse Trophy or purchased the replica shirt every year. In fact I think I got about 8 years (as puberty stalled a bit) out of the 2002-2003 replica shirt. My dad used to take me to one game a season, and I think we even stopped going for a couple of years after a defeat against Birmingham City where it rained on us a bit in the lower Holmesdale. In recent years I have started going as many times as three games a season (one season I even went four times!!!!!!) and generally only go when we've been on a bit of a winning streak. I mainly target the big games like our last home game against Brighton and the playoff finals and FA Cup Final. I've managed to go largely because of the kindness of other Palace fans and the occasional adhoc purchases of silver memberships. I didn't buy a membership this year because I had a lot of expense buying my first house and getting married and whilst I could afford the membership, I wasn't sure I'd be able to afford to go to many games.

I'm not going to jump the gun, but if Palace get into the Champions League next season I might consider a silver membership. That's assuming none of you will lend me your season ticket client refs. Don't want to push it, but if any of you have property in Italy, Spain, France or Germany could I also stay in your gaff when Palace play there too? Saves me paying for a hotel room.

Cheers then everyone,

Love, Palace's most loyal fan.

Edited by Part Time James (19 Sep 2016 9.45am)

Me too! What's your second team?

While we're at it Oh This Bloody , why would you settle for an oligarch when we're clearly pushing on to bigger and better things?