Following on from a conversation i was having with "Covered End" in The White Horse before the game on Saturday would be interested to get an overall opinion on this.
It bugs me a little that nobody seems to have any real dislike for us..I know we are a "family club" and we set a very good example off the pitch but in a footballing way there is something special about a rivalry. Yes there are teams we want to dislike us like Palace and Millwall but that is not recipricated in a natural footballing way because of their historical differences with other clubs, it seems you can only have one true rival.... I have noticed over the last few years that games between ourselves and Southampton have become particularly niggly off the pitch but would you want a rivalry with a club 100 odd miles away? Plus they have Portsmouth. Im not suggesting we want a rivaly for regular punch ups at matches (before thats mentioned)
Weighing up everything, historically over the last 20 years Palace should be our rivals based on the ground sharing, Simon jordan/Richard murray and the Dowie saga. Is it there though on Palaces part (it seems not - or are they in denial cos they think it winds up us), i mean at the end of the day it cant be particularly much fun having a rivalry with a south coast club who are always in a different league and rarely play each other!! Have the majority of Palace fans actually seen a Palace Brighton game and do they actually know why Brighton are their rivals?
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but good point who is our true rival, as Millwall's main rival is West Ham clearly & Palace is Brighton
Yep, totally corect ... and the more they deny it and pretend it don't exist, the more obvious it is.
Can you explain it then, cos i'm not sure i've ever understood why Palace hate Brighton either.
We don't need their permission or approval for anything but especially not to think what we like about them.
You metion Palace there now they have a bigger rivalry with Brighton than they do with us. We all know the reasons for this but they have no real teams hating them again they claim to hate Man Utd just cos of the cantona instident but Utd couldnt care less. I agree with what you say as i think we could do with more rivalry and i would suggest that if you would like to start a new rivalry for Charlton Norwich would be the way to go. Everytime over the last few years that we have played them the have become niggly games. Also we did send them down last season so im sure they are not keen on us for that reason.
at the time no one really bothered about palace as they were like wimbledon.what was the point,so they just invented a rivalry with brighton as they didn't have anything either.
what on earth?!
And they all lived happily ever after.
Correct me if I'm wrong though but I basically thought to cut a long story short they ended up with a rivalry as they were both pish third division clubs relatively close by with (in particularly Brighton's) a decent away following?
Edit: Just seen the above.
They're never going to be Rangers Celtic are they?
Threads like this just make us look like a bunch or mournful teenagers who keep getting turned down by the school bike.
I spose some genuinely don't know though EA.
They're never going to be Rangers Celtic are they?
Threads like this just make us look like a bunch or mournful teenagers who keep getting turned down by the school bike.[/quote]
yeah true but its a regular topic of conversation every season still!
I wouldn't care if noone hated us. Only interested in Charlton. I think I celebrated Llera's goal against Swindon more than any of the goals against Millwall, so a last minute equaliser/winner is just as special as a goal against your rivals.
For me Millwall is a good local derby which I want us to win for bragging rights whereas I genuinly dislike Palace and wish them a constant stream of shite karma.
Others feel differently and that's fine. I've never understood why every fan is expected to feel the same towards rivals. It's about the feeling you personally get pre match when you are playing one of them.
it was a typo, Rupert meant Northwich - and it's a fair point I 'effin hate them Cheshire bastids!
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