Well, I hope the live BBC TV coverage of the match didn't distract you from your studies. Hope you got a 2:1.

I hardly ever go to any games. I'm such a bad plastic supporter. I normally only try to get tickets to the big games. I also bring people with me to games who have never been to palace games before.

When things started to go well last season I started going to a lot more games. It came to my attention that I was a plastic at Middlesbrough at home last season. I had outrageously asked the angry teenager next to me if he thought he'd be able to win in a fight with Albert Adomah who he kept calling a c**t.

My first game this year was Southampton away which I went to with an Arsenal supporter. An unpleasant chap in the row behind me had a go at me (with lots of swearing in front of his 10 year old son) for asking him who number 46 was because I am a plastic fan. Despite this the Arsenal supporter that day who's been to a few Palace games since.

In 1999 I bought along a Manchester United supporter with me. He abandoned the treble winners for a club that had just gone into administration and bought a season ticket the year after and has been going ever since.

The OP has to realise that everyone has to start supporting Palace somewhere and that others of us haves lives which mean we can't go to every game. Please encourage people to come along and be part of our great club.

So you're more bothered about the fans than the team on the pitch! Oh. My. God.

I didn't say that, and well done you for totally taking my post out of context!

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Agreed and tbh I would've done anything to of gone to that match but I was 15 at the time and didnt fund my own trips to Palace back then but the point I'm tryna make is in response to someone claiming someone not turning up to a huge game makes you a "fake fan" when any football fan would go to a huge football match regardless of the team if the circumstances are right and the offer is there. In a sense, yes, we did have a better atmosphere last season and there seemed to be more genuine support at Selhurst - I'm all for people being converted to Palace (I'm always bringing other people along and trying to convert them from being a Man united/Arsenal/Liverpool glory hunter to Palace!) but the thing I cant stand is people turning up who didnt give a flying f*** about us when we was facing extinction or being a mid table, mediocre championship side but are now "die-hard, hard core" palace fans.

There's a balance, some peoples claims as to why they are bigger palace fans then others are quite frankly ludicrous but on the other hand some people are fake fans, who then have the nerve to moan and groan at Selhurst when we aren't winning, or because someone near them is "too loud" or just simply do not get behind the team - thats what pisses me off, if you are palace then you are palace through the ups and downs, the good and bad and not just when your local team is in the prem.

I'll say it once again though to people who don't understand - your length of time registered on a message board says nothing about your loyalty to the club in comparison to someone else!

We're the Arthur over ere!

Spot on. Another 'I'm a better Palace fan than you are' thread.Grow up cos it's just very boring.And yes I was at Hillsborough and also Edgely Park in 2001 but I don't think that entitles me to think I'm any better than any other Palace fan.