(BOLD) You're in a league populated by every other user on here VH.

I make you right on the rest of your post too must say. I cannot fully condone the going of Wilf, I struggle to envisage it as do I imagine everybody else at the club might however I fear his mind has wandered now and you may be right.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

The irony here should be lost on no one. We are presently owned by the would-have-been owners of Chelsea FC, so we clearly already have owners who COULD improve CPFC. The problem is, they don't want to. Why? That's the million-dollar question because they clearly have an appetite for investing in football, just not at our club.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

You may be right, but if you are our owners are little more than a pair of idiots. We are exactly what we were when they bought us in the first place, possibly slightly better and more valuable today. So one wonders what kind of due diligence they did before buying an asset that appears not to serve their purpose at all. Have they suddenly, unexpectedly, realised to their surprise that they haven't actually purchased a Rolls Royce. When they kicked the tyres, didn't they realise they were looking at a Skoda?

Edited by sydtheeagle (17 Jan 2023 5.02pm)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

I have followed Palace since 1969 and do not remember or recognise the us and them mentaility that some of you are talking about. We have had a couple of good seasons but in the main we have always been 'also rans'.Money has killed the game for small teams like ours. We cannot compete and the gap will only get wider. This is the real them and us. Them that have and us that don't.

I wonder if I am evidence of what is to come. Twenty (or even ten) years ago, if there was football on TV, I watched it. All of it and any of it. Full stop. Today, I watch no football whatsoever other than Palace (almost always in person). If we're not playing, I'm not interested. The game as it now holds no appeal at all. It's not interesting. It's not competitive. I don't recognise myself or my values in almost any of the people who populate the game. The sooner the European Super League kicks off and the pollutants at the top of the money tree are removed, the better as far as I'm concerned. Until we get our game back, I'm no longer interested in football; I retain an interest only in Palace.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Agreed, it wasn't long ago that Leicester won the Premier league with Robert Huth an Wes Morgan at CB, Kante and Drinkwater, two DCM and 29% possession, but with great pace, counter attack football

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