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[????]

the last time i went was Di Canio's first game...came on as sub (think it was Palace but Could have been Wimbledon?) Was Selhurst Park though.

[murphy]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Too right, I was actually telling the mocklet this

> morning how I'll be taking him to Palace to hear

> the roar of the crowd and watch some good

> football.

> Which I had to temper a little, considering that

> it's Selhurst Park, that the crowd will probably

> murmur rather than roar, and the football will

> probably be dire, but he's still looking forward

> to it....not that he had the foggiest idea what I

> was talking about.

>

> A long winded way of saying, absolutely.

Palace support used to be quiet but is fantastic now, one of the best in the league. 3-0 down at home to Forest last Saturday, crowd still in full voice and lots of praise from Sky commentators and pundits.

It made a change to be at a Palace game on the last day of the season and have nothing riding on it. Hopefully the football will be better next year, but no worries about the atmosphere and should be great v West Ham. It will certainly be friendlier than the Millwall game, do you plan to visit there as well?

[mockney piers]

I've been there with my Norwich mate, but will give the WH game a miss, not worth the aggro, in this case quite literally.

I actually quite like selhurst park, go there with my Norwich and my Wednesday mates most seasons, but the footie's usually pretty poor (from all sides). Though in fairness with a young mocklet I haven't been this season and am willing to believe in improvements in football and atmosphere (they usually go hand in hand).

I look forward to the game between us next season, especially as we'll be filling an otter full of beer too.

[Ladygooner]

Blackburn score - it's not over yet!

[Alan Medic]

Oh yes it is albeit boringly.

[Atticus]

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[maxxi]

Half time and Adrian Chiles insists the match is "Absorbing!" Yeah, like kitchen roll. Dull, dull, dull.

[mockney piers]

First half was tentative, really enjoying this half though. City should have buried the game but seem to have forgotten how to kick a ball at the goal without introducing a comedy twist.

[Mick Mac]

Congrats to Alex Ferguson on MU title number 19. Surely now the most successful manager ever in English football.

Not a MU fan but you have to admire success like that.

[????]

Bollox to it all - the results today make it a technicality for us. I hate football.

[Mick Mac]

You don't mean that.

Cheaper season tickets next year ....

[maxxi]

Right - we can only survive on goal difference, but while there's even only a slight chance...

Sun

Wigan 0 - 3 WH

B'ham 0 - 2 Fulham

Last day

WH 3 - 0 Sunderland

Stoke 1 - 0 Wigan

Man U 2 - 0 Blackpool

Spurs 2 - 0 Birmingham

...and Bob's your uncle.

[Laddy Muck]

Fantastic day for United. Oh happy days...

Bad luck Stoke, but *chokes* well done *chokes again* Ci....

Holy Mary, Mother of God, I've been drinking since the 12.45 kick-off yesterday...

[Alan Medic]

I said you'd be rat arsed on the Sky thread.

[Alan Medic]

Any chance Kilmarknock might make the SPL interesting today? They've already lost 5 times this season to Rangers. Given that run I suppose statistically its creeping ever closer to a non Rangers win result! I really thought Celtic where the better team in Scotland this year. What went wrong?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Quality will out, Alan.

Here's a right gudewilly waught for Walter Smith.

[Mick Mac]

Alan. You were right. We were the better team. Everyone knows that, except Inverness Caley Thistle.

[matthew123]

In Scotland there are Rangers teams and Celtic teams, and Rangers Refs and Celtic Refs .... or more to the point a city full of bad losers :)

[SCSB79]

Celtic the better team? Really.

Rangers have won more SPL games than Celtic.

Rangers have scored more SPL goals than Celtic.

*at this point of the season.

But of course, Celtic are the better team! Ha ha ha.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Good start. Not sure if that settles the nerves or makes them worse.

Edited - in the time it took me to find this thread and type the above, another two have been scored. I guess I'll go for settled nerves and a smug face.

[Mick Mac]

3-0 rangers. Well done on winning the league PGC. I'm going to make the kids lunch.

As for Kilmarnock......very poor.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Well thanks, that's very gracious of you, but many a slip ...

[SCSB79]

Always the fact the other team are poor and not that Rangers were just immense.

Thank you Walter Smith - you are a legend.

Glasgow Rangers Champions.

We won more, we scored more.... that's why we're Champions, that's why we're Champions!!!

[Alan Medic]

You won a two horse race. It isn't a big deal.

[SCSB79]

It is a big deal if you are one of the two.

We can only beat those put infront of us.