The typical condescending Palace fan likes to throw the Kent accusation at us because although part of our support has been part of the working class white flight further out into South East London and into Kent deep down it really only serves to highlight their own inadequacies about the bland suburban nothingness of their own club.
A club that has changed colours, badges and nicknames many times over the years to mimic other successful continental clubs in the hope it will give them some kind of identity. It’s why the Holmesdale fanatics are lauded by their support when everyone else in the country is in fits of laughter at their cringeworthy antics. And it’s why Crystal Palace as a club cling tragically to the ‘South London’ banner in the desperate hope that they will be accepted as edgy and relevant. They constantly have to tell everyone who will listen that they are from South London, a bit like the hipsters who carry bags saying ‘Shoreditch’ or T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Brixton’ in a vain attempt to convince not only everyone else but also themselves that they are something they are not, and that is exactly what Palace are.
We know what we are, a small underachieving football club, but we have a character and a rich working class lineage that can be traced right back to the very beating heart of the London docklands. That is why we don’t need to endlessly fib about where we are from and what we are about, nor do we need choreographed singing sections or ridiculous banners or silly smoke displays. We are Millwall with a proud history of working class culture and Crystal Palace however much they try and fake it can never match that.
