Good Palace fan interview ahead of Sunderland game

Mick Brown, author, journo and llfelong Palace fan talks about the club past and present, Pulis, Zaha, Saturday's match and lots more at http://salutsunderland.com/2014/03/safc-vs-crystal-palace-who-are-you-proper-clubs-ugly-draw/

I liked this bit: 'I’ve always had a particular respect and affection for Sunderland. You’re a proper football club, in the same way that I regard Palace as a proper football club, which is to say a combination of history (yours more distinguished than ours); wildly fluctuating fortunes (ours fluctuating more wildly than yours); resolutely unfashionable; a loyal, not to say fanatical following; the sense that you don’t chose to support the club, but that you are chosen – branded – by virtue of geography, family tradition; the fact that following the club is not a pastime, but a desperate and irrational love. '

 

many true words in this..