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 FinchleyEagle  16 Mar 14 10.47am |
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I really do, and never more than at times like this, right now. Honestly. To sum it up, cast your mind back to May 2010. Sheff Wed were 1 point behind us after (I think) drawing with Cardiff on Saturday. We were playing West Brom on the Monday night. Sheff Wed ticket already bought for the following Saturday. I chatted to a mate at work on Monday "...so if we win tonight its all over - we stay up" "really, you want that ?" he asked "next saturday will be an experience that is incredibly rare in football, if you dont win tonight. The nerves, the energy, the pure excitement is absolutely guaranteed" I thought about it and knew he was right, if someone asks me on my deathbed to recount football memories, being there that day would be one of them. Palace is nearly always like that, although not so extreme. Rarely do we do mid-table mediocrity and I love it. Of course you get nerves, edginess, tense, arguing with people, but its all part of it. In life, you have a balance of excitement and security - the more excitement you have, the less certainty there is and vice versa. As in life you need plenty of security I'll take excitement with my football team - and while some killer football wouldnt go a miss, the excitement is there in spades. We have a very real chance of staying up, but we know it, we've known it for months really, its going to Fulham. Cant wait. Buckle up and hold your nerve. We're staying up, but it will be Sheff Wed away part 2...
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| Ninjas Headband Biggleswade 16 Mar 14 12.03pm |
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Totally agree with you. It's what making following a club like Palace so exciting. A relegation battle can be just as thrilling as a promotion, something a big club supporter will never really understand. That said, I do long for a season where I'm not having heart failure on the final day of the season.
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| PALACE FOR EVER London 16 Mar 14 12.07pm |
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Quote FinchleyEagle at 16 Mar 2014 10.47am
I really do, and never more than at times like this, right now. Honestly. To sum it up, cast your mind back to May 2010. Sheff Wed were 1 point behind us after (I think) drawing with Cardiff on Saturday. We were playing West Brom on the Monday night. Sheff Wed ticket already bought for the following Saturday. I chatted to a mate at work on Monday "...so if we win tonight its all over - we stay up" "really, you want that ?" he asked "next saturday will be an experience that is incredibly rare in football, if you dont win tonight. The nerves, the energy, the pure excitement is absolutely guaranteed" I thought about it and knew he was right, if someone asks me on my deathbed to recount football memories, being there that day would be one of them. Palace is nearly always like that, although not so extreme. Rarely do we do mid-table mediocrity and I love it. Of course you get nerves, edginess, tense, arguing with people, but its all part of it. In life, you have a balance of excitement and security - the more excitement you have, the less certainty there is and vice versa. As in life you need plenty of security I'll take excitement with my football team - and while some killer football wouldnt go a miss, the excitement is there in spades. We have a very real chance of staying up, but we know it, we've known it for months really, its going to Fulham. Cant wait. Buckle up and hold your nerve. We're staying up, but it will be Sheff Wed away part 2... Even just last season, we were bottom after three games (lost all) then top by Nov (still three losses). From then comfortably in the top six at the beginning of March when we went nine matches without winning including that 4-0 home loss to Birmingham which meant come the last match if results went the wrong way we wouldn't have finished top six. 2000-01 season, with two matches left. First one was Portsmouth away which if we lost we were down but won 4-2 which moved us up one place above them to 21st. Then of course Stockport away and now between four clubs to avoid the last relegation place. Being tied on points with Portsmouth which meant we could lose and stay up or win and go down. In the end of course we won with that Dougie goal which we had to because of other results. How sad to see that Stockport are now in Conference North and of course Portsmouth are struggling in League Two. Edited by PALACE FOR EVER (16 Mar 2014 12.15pm)
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| Plane Bromley 16 Mar 14 12.25pm |
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Quote FinchleyEagle at 16 Mar 2014 10.47am
I really do, and never more than at times like this, right now. Honestly. To sum it up, cast your mind back to May 2010. Sheff Wed were 1 point behind us after (I think) drawing with Cardiff on Saturday. We were playing West Brom on the Monday night. Sheff Wed ticket already bought for the following Saturday. I chatted to a mate at work on Monday "...so if we win tonight its all over - we stay up" "really, you want that ?" he asked "next saturday will be an experience that is incredibly rare in football, if you dont win tonight. The nerves, the energy, the pure excitement is absolutely guaranteed" I thought about it and knew he was right, if someone asks me on my deathbed to recount football memories, being there that day would be one of them. Palace is nearly always like that, although not so extreme. Rarely do we do mid-table mediocrity and I love it. Of course you get nerves, edginess, tense, arguing with people, but its all part of it. In life, you have a balance of excitement and security - the more excitement you have, the less certainty there is and vice versa. As in life you need plenty of security I'll take excitement with my football team - and while some killer football wouldnt go a miss, the excitement is there in spades. We have a very real chance of staying up, but we know it, we've known it for months really, its going to Fulham. Cant wait. Buckle up and hold your nerve. We're staying up, but it will be Sheff Wed away part 2...
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| FinchleyEagle 16 Mar 14 9.18pm |
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Cheers planey - we are going to own Craven Cottage...
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| thommo1 Peckham 16 Mar 14 9.22pm |
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Your Bang on Finch, well said.
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adrian b  Landrindod, Wales 16 Mar 14 10.17pm |
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Unbelievably correct. But, you know, I've heard other supporters of other teams say exactly the same. On a train once and got talking to a Coventry fan and his missus. Coventry was so inconsistent, produced some good youngsters, had potentially as big support as the top teams etc, etc. I thought I was in the Victory club in Thorton Heath!
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blind eagle  Covington.Tennessee 19 Mar 14 8.03pm |
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As a Palace fan for seventy years I can assure life is either exciting or nerve racking. There has never been a dull moment in my life as a Palace fan simply because Palace always do things the hard way. Time and time again we were either top of the league or there abouts and a team at the bottom or very near thereto would come to Selhurst and we would loose. Yes its been all squeaky bum time for most of us at Selhurst.
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| Lombardinho London 19 Mar 14 8.31pm |
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If Pulis can make Palace safe BEFORE the Fulham game, I won't begrudge him! There'll be no "Tony-you ruined our last day drama" from me!
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palacefandownunder  Sydney 21 Mar 14 11.28am |
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I think every Palace fan knew as soon as the fixture list was published that it was going to come down to the Fulham game. It might not beat Shef Wed in 2010 but you know it's going to be up there with the all time classic games... I'm going to be in the UK and there's no way I'm going to miss this! How does it work with the 'neutral' end at Fulham? Can you buy those tickets through CPFC ticket office?
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| HornchurchEagle Hornchurch 21 Mar 14 11.31am |
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Bang on finch! Great post!
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| Plane Bromley 21 Mar 14 11.38am |
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Quote palacefandownunder at 21 Mar 2014 11.28am
I think every Palace fan knew as soon as the fixture list was published that it was going to come down to the Fulham game. It might not beat Shef Wed in 2010 but you know it's going to be up there with the all time classic games... I'm going to be in the UK and there's no way I'm going to miss this! How does it work with the 'neutral' end at Fulham? Can you buy those tickets through CPFC ticket office? Don't blame you for needing to be there.
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