I may be in the minority here, but last week, we beat Leeds 4-1, it was on the telly for me and I was just not interested, I was farting about around the house listening as it happened and yeah, I was happy we won but it didn't move me, I wasn't impacted by it all.

Maybe the fact fans aren't there or the fact the league seems shallow, corrupt with PPV and the possible breakaway league.. or the fact that the style of play hs put me off or the lack or characters..

I'm not sure, but I just feel it's pointless right now.. I want fans back in the ground, I want a few more players that connect with fans and excite us.. it just feels... too commercially constructed.. it doesn't feel like the palace I grew up with.

This was once a quality forum....

It terms of football, gone are the days of rosettes and rattles and standing on rain-lashed terraces watching teams playing on mud baths.
After matches, a stream of supporters walking near someone with a transistor radio to ascertain the final scores.

Edited by Willo (15 Nov 2020 10.29am)

I started following football in the 1960s and it doesn’t have the same emotional pull now, although I still enjoy watching skilful players and feel more content when Palace do well.
When I started watching as a boy the older generation of supporters would reminisce about the likes of Matthews and Finney and suggest that Alf Ramsay’s World Cup winning wingless wonders had ruined football.
Perhaps we’re all guilty of indulging in rose tinted nostalgia.

Things in modern football I could do without
- it being described as ‘a product’
- VAR
- greed of the big clubs
- political profile of some top players
- replacement of professional TV presenters like Des Lynam by the likes of Lineker
- the relative expense.

I used to go to every Palace home game and would take in another London game when Palace were away - from QPR, Spurs, Chelsea to Arsenal.
No membership or advance purchase was required and you would just turn up at the turnstiles and pay cash.
My children don’t believe me when I describe how easy it used to be to follow football.

When Lineker first came on the scene as a presenter I couldn't help thinking he was trying to be Des Lynam MK 2.He will never achieve such an exalted status.Des Lynam actually lives not too far removed from my abode.

Football is now a 'World' apart from the days when I first supported the club in the 60s and beyond, both on and off the pitch.There are pros and cons of course and one could spend several hours over a tipple or two in a public house pontificating about the changes.

For those that don't attend matches, I don't suppose it is too different but for those of us that did it just isn't the same. We need to get through this season without relegation and then kick on next season, hopefully with crowds back in the stadium.

Although I want us to do well this season, if we start playing lovey football and winning home matches, it would mean so much less to me as I wasn't there to see it. To go to the Players Bar then on to the Clifton after a win.

Worse for Dirty Leeds fans as this could be their only season in the PL and they weren't there to see it. Looking unlikely at the moment but it is possible.

Still worse still if any clubs go under because of this.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

indeed and I remember turning up along with 51,000 others on that famous night against Burnley, bought my ticket and got in (despite the fact our official capacity was only 47,000).