Crystal Palace (A) - Sat 11th Mar, 17:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Bradshaw says hello ...

Sorry, ABJ, must be thick, don't get the reference. Who Bradshaw?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Saturday Night Kick off,
Frenzied, excitable and giddy home fans,
Ex City player as manager,
Bogey team in the Spurs, Everton and Leicester mold,
Zaha.

I think I know how this ends.

Yep. 3-0 City :)

 

[Damanino]

we cannot drop points simple as that. 3 huge games coming up (PL, CL, FA), can break our season each of them if we mess up...

Arse will have a win tomorrow, then they play at home vs Palace when we have FA game, so they will have more games but possibly an 8 points lead when we arrive back from the int. break.

would be so great to go like we win today, Fulham beats Arse then Palace earns a lucky point at Emirates aand its just a 3 points gap with us 1 game in hand, but yes its more likely Arse getting two 94th minute winners next two games again...

Haaland and Foden has to have enough today to hurt Palace. look out for the counters tho.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Got that feeling today 6-1 Haaland Hatrick mahrez Jackie boy and Kev

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Sorry, ABJ, must be thick, don't get the reference. Who Bradshaw?

You surprise me, world traveler like thee!
George Bradshaw. History, innit?

 

[shemnel]

Is a win here officially a run of form?

Up the boys in blue, we can do this.

 

[train man]

I'm on the train aswell, think you'd be very unlucky to miss the 9pm train.
I'm hoping to catch the 8.31pm and that's staying till the end of the match.
Brisk walk to Norwood junction, good number of trains to London bridge and tube to euston.
Might be a bit tight, but having done that route plenty of times already, I think its doable.

There's a 19:49 train from Norwood Junction direct to St Pancras, arr 20:15.
12min walk from there to Euston. No tubes = result!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

You surprise me, world traveler like thee!
George Bradshaw. History, innit?

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Not that I'm Isaac Newton… or that you're the great ocean of truth…

;-)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

There's a 19:49 train from Norwood Junction direct to St Pancras, arr 20:15.
12min walk from there to Euston. No tubes = result!

Yep, but at the risk of repeating myself. These “estimations” seem to come out of an clear blue sky in which there isn't an elderly person getting very slowly off the train with her equally elderly husband, because it's a big step down (!). Or a family blocking your way with two huge suitcases on the platform. Then another one just beyond them. Then another… then groups of lads and lasses larking around on the pavement between the two stations, blocking your way and not listening to you because they're too hyped up (coked up?) before going out clubbing.
I'm a brisk walker, especially when I've got no luggage. I've walked from St. Pancras to Euston in twelve minutes, even ten when I was pushed.
These are ideal estimations that take no account of contingencies. It's a Saturday evening in London. Good luck, people. Sincerely hope you get that train.
By the way, definitely do not take the tube from St. Pancras to Euston. That would be plain nuts.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Look, if we're not beating Palace, then we're not champions at the end of the season. I really do think that. The days of drawing against the likes of Everton and Forest are over. The charge starts now (has already started). Or not.