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posted 18-03-2010 11:35
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Sugar Diddy, surely?
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posted 18-03-2010 11:41
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Cristal Palace...
Nice that the headline of that piece believes Palace to be a Premiership team.
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posted 18-03-2010 11:41
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Bastard!
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Last Edit: 18-03-2010 11:42 By Nishlord.
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posted 18-03-2010 11:44
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I bet the name appealed to him as much as anything.
He'll be so pissed off when he finds out it's not actually in proper London and his limo will have to crawl through endless suburbia to reach the ground.
Unless he builds a helipad on the roof, I guess.
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posted 18-03-2010 11:49
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I think he'll be upset once he realises it's not actually a palace he's buying and there is no throne for him to sit on. Although saying that Simon Jordan may have got one in the directors' box.
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posted 18-03-2010 11:51
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As Kid A says, he'll be disappointed when he discovers he's not actually buying a crystal palace.
Sponsorship potential exists though. The club to be renamed Cristal Palace?
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Last Edit: 18-03-2010 11:52 By meregreen.
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posted 18-03-2010 12:19
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He'll be so pissed off when he finds out it's not actually in proper London.
Excuse me?
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posted 18-03-2010 12:23
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OK, it's technically got a London postcode, but c'mon, it's Croydon...
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posted 18-03-2010 12:33
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What other criteria does a place have to be 'proper London', then?
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posted 18-03-2010 12:48
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Bow Bells innit.
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posted 18-03-2010 12:50
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Selhurst Park is in South Norwood, which is in the old county borough of Croydon, which itself was only subsumed into London in 1965, and nobody sane really thinks of as Proper London. I've got loads of mates from Croydon and none of them think of themselves as Londoners.
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posted 18-03-2010 12:56
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I'm just looking forward to the potential remix of Glad All Over in a hip-hop stylee.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:01
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Well, up to a point. All about nuance, innit.
If you use the old LCC boundaries as a clincher, you've got West Ham and Tottenham also outside of London.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:05
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Of course Selhurst isn't in London.
It's in Hell.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:12
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I'm looking forward to the return of fur coats at football managers matches.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:13
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Selhurst Park is in South Norwood, which is in the old county borough of Croydon, which itself was only subsumed into London in 1965, and nobody sane really thinks of as Proper London. I've got loads of mates from Croydon and none of them think of themselves as Londoners.
When you have a metropolis like London, you have to take the character of the whole, not just the bits in the middle that are vibrant hubs of internationalism.
Regardless, Selhurst Park is in the borough of Croydon, not Croydon itself, in the same way Putney is in Wandsworth borough, not Wandsworth the place. In any case, the address of the ground says London SE25, so regardless of whatever definition of the place you want to give it, it's London.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:14
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It's not the first club to be bought by a rapper though, is it?
West Ham have recently been bought by Old Dirty Bastard.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:18
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The_Liquidator wrote:
Selhurst Park is in South Norwood, which is in the old county borough of Croydon, which itself was only subsumed into London in 1965, and nobody sane really thinks of as Proper London. I've got loads of mates from Croydon and none of them think of themselves as Londoners.
When you have a metropolis like London, you have to take the character of the whole, not just the bits in the middle that are vibrant hubs of internationalism.
Regardless, Selhurst Park is in the borough of Croydon, not Croydon itself, in the same way Putney is in Wandsworth borough, not Wandsworth the place. In any case, the address of the ground says London SE25, so regardless of whatever definition of the place you want to give it, it's London.
Nah, come on, you must acknowledge that the place where Crystal Palace is was never part of traditional London, and there were clear green fields between Croydon and the city until the sudden suburban developments of the 1930s. It's commuter belt.
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posted 18-03-2010 13:25
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Christ I'm boring myself as I type this, but the you're really defining the city as it was 80 years ago? Really? Nothing south of the river is 'traditional' London, if you want to go back far enough. The place has expanded, like every other city in the world, since the end of the war, so what?
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