As previously indicated I've been looking forward to Operation Relegation for a few months. As Palace aren't coming up, it would be fun to go down and pick up a nice little 6 points. Anyway I digress.
As indicated elsewhere, Palace aren't really bovvered about Charlton, or Clowntown!!!! or Pikeys as they call us. Now this is where I don't actually get it. The Charlton crowd is made up of 60-70% middle class, middle england supporters. All with disposable money, a general uncomplicated fashion sense, and roots in SE London.Charlton is part of the London Borough of Greenwich, quite a celubrious Borough, the meridian time line, in fact the centre of the world. Palace have Croydon, Norwood, Penge!!!!! There is no fashion to talk about in Surrey, although you could argue that with the impovements in transport infrastructure they can actually commute to Central London, and make a decent wage. So where does this Pikey name calling come from? Clowntown, doesnt even look like Charlton!!!! I don't understand it really, jealousy? The uneducated leading the uneducated? The blind leading the insipid?
Anyway, here's to Operation Relegation and make sure you wear your finest as Sellout Park next season.
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On the other hand we know what their average fan is like. He's called Nigel, he lives with his mum (who he loves, dearly), he's got a very junior job in the branch of a high street bank (filling up cash machines all day), he "gives it large" on his computer but if you met him he wouldn't say boo to a goose, ..... oh .... and he wears red and blue stripe jim jams to bed every night. Ah, bless!
Riscardo, lol dude
A lot of their support comes from South ie areas like Purley, Coulsdon, Caterham, Sanderstead, Selsdon, which are quite affluent. Maybe it is "those" supporters that think we are inner London pikies.
What's that all about, it was a nickname kindly given to us from our bermondsey friends. I believe this was to highlight the fact that we are not like them, a fact that I am happy to accept.
But if people are really honest the demographic of Palace and Charlton's support is likely to be very similar, so it seems a bit odd that you good people from the Valley call us nigels? Your hardly Millwall are you??
Regards
your resident Stripey Nigel!