We had it with Brighton a lot back in the seventies and nearly always came out on top, don't see them as our biggest rivals as we had a huge rivalry with the clowns during the seventies and eighties, Wall to a lesser extent. Luton and Swindon was always a good day out in the seventies.

Cardiff!? I thought the 50-odd miles made our rivalry a little weird, but...

They do realise that Cardiff fans focus west to their Jack pals?

Back in the 70's and 80's 3 teams we had proper rivalries with ...
Charlton ..... we hated them always cracking games ... studs up challenges going on
Millwall .... these were magic games ... and did the fans go at it
Brighton .... proper hate grudge matches and the fans got proper at it.

I remember a midweek night match at Brighton in the 70's ... we were in that penned away supporters bit ... next thing darts came flying over from the Brighton supporters... there was this proper hard nut eagles fan at the bars of the pen shouting at the Brighton fans with a dart sticking out of his head and claret dripping off the end of his nose ... course we picked up the darts and threw them back. His mate pulled the dart out of his head and slung it straight back .... it was war.
Eagles to win 3 - 1 over the seaweed

Record crowd 51,482 - The Whitehorse was rocking - Second Div Champs 1978 - 79 ... 'wot a night !

Whatever the exaggerated tales of World War 3 breaking out at previous encounters I still maintain that if you behave like a regular person then you will be fine. At the play-off match at the Amex I queued with Brighton fans to get the train to Falmer and chatted with them. One thing we shared in common was that we were all bricking-it about how the match would go rather than the prospect of killing each other. Of course there were some t0ssers pretending to want to fight but the Police easily handled it.

Don't know if this has been posted before but a really good article and background on the rivalry between Palace and Brighton - ironically in the Daily Fail;

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I didn't know that Brighton were previously known as the "Dolphins" but changed their nickname to "Seagulls" to drown out the Palace chants of "Eagles" - sad g@ts..!!

Loving the references to so many Palace legends in the fixture over the years; Cannon, Johnson, Zaha etc..

Let's hope the Eagles feast on Seagulls and Dolphins tomorrow night to take us out of the bottom 3.

COYP

I hate both. Clowns as well (their bitterness and jumping on our grave was enough to make me wish they'd go extinct)