| Palace on Palace 23:37 - Dec 11 with 2879 views | MrSheen |
I met a friend for a drink last night with a startling story of following Palace in Europe. He’s a real Palace diehard and decided they would achieve a lifetime’s ambition and pick one away day in Europe, settling on Strasbourg a couple of weeks ago. He went a day early, had a great night, locals very friendly, all cursing joint club ownership (Strasbourg are a vassal state of Chelsea). His brother was coming out with his teenage son on match day and they agreed to meet at 5 in a bar in the square set aside by the police for Palace fans.
He arrived at a quarter to five and it was mayhem, brawls everywhere, police charging around. Palace on Palace.
He’s been telling me for a while about friction at Palace games. The Holmesdale Ultra scene, love it or hate it, has attracted a different group of supporters to what you might think of as “legacy Palace”, but he calls “Addlestone*”. They stay away from each other at home but are forced together at away games. He told me there were occasional tensions in the last couple of years over one group wanting to fly Palestine flags and another insisting this was nothing to do with Palace.
Anyway, the two groups came together in the square, insults led to an attack (apparently on an Asian fan), and then a free-for-all. My friend warned his brother off and they hung out elsewhere until kickoff. Roll forwards a couple of hours, Palace have thrown the game away, the police have locked them in for 45 minutes to clear the area, and it all happens again. They’re finally let out to march back to town between lines of riot police. Their hotel was a bit off their route and they were going to ask the police to let them down a side road, but someone in front of them had the same idea and beats them to it. The policeman ponders for a while, then gets a can of pepper spray out and unloads on the fans. Fresh disorder breaks out, at which point our heroes scoot further up the road and slip off at a now unguarded corner further up.
My friend described the whole experience as at the same time miserably dispiriting and totally exhilarating. But he gave Shelbourne a miss.
* Sorry, New Addington, noisy pub.
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| Palace on Palace on 16:24 - Dec 12 with 416 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Palace on Palace on 15:25 - Dec 12 by Paddyhoops |
Any person who dresses from head to toe in black with a balaclava and attends a football match needs to give their head a wobble .
Does Ultra imply they’re better supporters than everyone else ?
Fecking grow up lads. |
If a stripy Nigel does it it would look silly but I have to say, the Red Star Belgrade ultras blew my socks off when they did it. |  | | |
| Palace on Palace on 16:29 - Dec 12 with 394 views | stevec |
| Palace on Palace on 10:03 - Dec 12 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Smaller scale, but I understand there has been some ag about the new flags in the Loft / Ellerslie. |
Given the connotations of the Palace situation in this thread, perhaps you could explain to us honestly whether you are casting aspersions on our own support with this somewhat glib remark above.
It’s a bit nasty if you are going to leave this hanging there.
Are we talking racism here or is your curmudgeon remark purely a slight on the older supporter.
Just give us it straight, we don’t need you lobbing grenades in the fckin room and walking away. |  | | |
| Palace on Palace on 16:49 - Dec 12 with 333 views | Boston |
Ha, conversation at work about this incident has resulted in me being shown a number of vids from a couple of blokes phones - ooer, got very nasty, didn't it! |  |
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| Palace on Palace on 17:04 - Dec 12 with 289 views | DannyPaddox |
Palace about to launch a big campaign about all this |  | | |
| Palace on Palace on 17:12 - Dec 12 with 260 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Palace on Palace on 15:20 - Dec 12 by Boston |
And there's me thinking Addington Palace was just a quaint 18th Century mansion. |
'New' Addington technically but its been there yonks. |  |
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| Palace on Palace on 17:19 - Dec 12 with 226 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Palace on Palace on 16:29 - Dec 12 by stevec |
Given the connotations of the Palace situation in this thread, perhaps you could explain to us honestly whether you are casting aspersions on our own support with this somewhat glib remark above.
It’s a bit nasty if you are going to leave this hanging there.
Are we talking racism here or is your curmudgeon remark purely a slight on the older supporter.
Just give us it straight, we don’t need you lobbing grenades in the fckin room and walking away. |
He does it relentlessly.
Holier than thou innit. | |
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| Palace on Palace on 20:27 - Dec 12 with 55 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Palace on Palace on 16:29 - Dec 12 by stevec |
Given the connotations of the Palace situation in this thread, perhaps you could explain to us honestly whether you are casting aspersions on our own support with this somewhat glib remark above.
It’s a bit nasty if you are going to leave this hanging there.
Are we talking racism here or is your curmudgeon remark purely a slight on the older supporter.
Just give us it straight, we don’t need you lobbing grenades in the fckin room and walking away. |
Didn't know you were so sensitive Steve.
Not mentioned anything about racism or age. They are your words.
Loft Flags, the group who go out of their way financially and with time, have received a small bit of grief online about the flags i've been told. Nothing on the scale of fighting in Europe, which I was clear about.
Don't forgot we had an anonymous poster on here passing on personal details about one of the people involved not so long ago. Something about communists flags.
Hope that helps. I won't bother replying to your girlfriend. | | | |
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