First thing I thought of, was if we were Americanised - we'd do a bloody sight better on the pre and half time entertainment and that light show wouldn't be half as s**t as it is (In fact I thought it was a test of the lights).

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Yeah. Sentiment is in the right place but perhaps a little bit OTT. And whoever writes their Facebook posts needs to learn that writing EVERYTHING IN CAPS DOES NOT MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE. It actually has the opposite effect.

However totally on board with the rage against making away supporters feel at home. If that is actually true about giving away t-shirts that's a bit weird.

Provide a good level of service where needed but no reason to copy Brighton, Arsenal etc. in customising the away experience. Football thrives on competition not equality. Last thing we want is the away support to feel comfortable, especially at the moment!

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

It's what you were implying though.

As for a good business model - of which football is unique and is unlike almost all other businesses, and alienating paying customers, people don't buy an Away football ticket hoping they might get a free t-shirt or hear their clubs' song over the speaker system.

Tickets have been made cheaper for Away supporters than the majority of Home supporters. There's also far more chance that any Away fan already lives in London, than a Palace fan living in any of the 'Away' cities - although that is a slightly different point.

I do think it vulgar that Palace have footed the bill for Cantona shirts to be printed and handed out for free, in the very stadium where he had his most infamous moment of attacking a 'Home' supporter.

How about none at all.

This was the start of the 'commercialisation' of the Club.

Being a Palace Supporter that's from America, who is American, who has never stepped foot in South London, let alone England i feel as though this post may be met with a good amount of vitriol and backlash. Given the American investment and the general nativism of sports clubs anywhere in the world, i try to emphasize with the cynical eye a home-grown Palace supporter would have of this "Football Globalization" and outsider influence. Many may feel its selling out, many may feel that its no longer a "South London" enterprise, that a part of the community has been corrupted or taken away from you. Realistically though, if Palace is too ever become firmly established in the Premier league isn't the foreign investment and growth needed? Not to undermine whats been built in the past and the rich club culture that even a foreign fan such as myself could never truly be embraced by. Sports worldwide are undergoing a sort of revolution where the gaps are being closed, I would expect as the years go on the gap will close between the rest of the Premiership and the top "usual suspect" clubs. The Leicester City run we saw a year ago will become more the rule rather than the exception.

Game of 2 baths was the beginning of the end.