Big Fish Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Eh ? https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/club/crystal-palace-the-worlds-oldest-professional-association-football-club/2020-04-21/?culture=en 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 What a load of tosh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swfcAH Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 They'll get it recognised because they're a London team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmontonowl Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 That'll be the date they 1st played their derby against local rivals Brighton 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latemodelchild Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Were we playing football in friendlies etc before The Wednesday club was formed? Cos it sounds like this palace team weren't a proper team really, just some mates playing friendlies and training in the cricket off season. Spurious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Crystal Palace trying to be relevant in football, that’s all it is. But they are still non relevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helmut_rooster Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 And that's on thier official site.....dear God the length some people will go too. Do they have an honours board for it to be nailed upon. It'll be on those shīt flag those "hard boys" wave behind the net come August 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 It'll be the same sort of "link" as Chesterfield's claim - there was another team in the area back then so we'll claim that date even though we were obviously actually formed much later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 I think in 50 BC someone kicked a stone on a Wednesday. Think we can claim that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Bonvin Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Didn't Desmond Lynam or Jimmy Hill once call them Crystal Phallus by mistake on Grandstand? Says it all really. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOFABI Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Wednesday is the Germanic name for Mercury's day of Constantine's weekly calendar. The 793 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOFABI Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, BOOFABI said: Wednesday is the Germanic name for Mercury's day of Constantine's weekly calendar. The 793 No idea what happened here Anyway... Wednesday being the Germanic name for Mercury's day means "Odin's Day". It would have been introduced to England in 793 when the Vikings settled. Wednesday - established 793, Happy 1230th anniversary everyone. Top notch logic from Palace there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R-Sole14 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 5 hours ago, BOOFABI said: No idea what happened here Anyway... Wednesday being the Germanic name for Mercury's day means "Odin's Day". It would have been introduced to England in 793 when the Vikings settled. Wednesday - established 793, Happy 1230th anniversary everyone. Top notch logic from Palace there. I think you’re off a few hundred years. The Angles and Saxons were Germanic and would have been using the then equivalent of “Odin’s Day” on their arrival into Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 9 hours ago, R-Sole14 said: I think you’re off a few hundred years. The Angles and Saxons were Germanic and would have been using the then equivalent of “Odin’s Day” on their arrival into Britain. Odin for the Norse, Woden to the Anglo-Saxons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Of The Roasters Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 19/06/2022 at 11:45, latemodelchild said: Were we playing football in friendlies etc before The Wednesday club was formed? Cos it sounds like this palace team weren't a proper team really, just some mates playing friendlies and training in the cricket off season. Spurious. That's pretty much it. Wikipedia says that Crystal Palace can "trace their origins" back to 1861. Well, by the same logic SWFC can "trace their origins" back to 1820, if not earlier. Admittedly not as a football club....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putney Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/south-london-memories-crystal-palace-the-oldest-professional-football-club-in-the-world/ Very unlike Palace to try and force an identity…… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakefieldowl Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 So they stopped playing for over 20 years........but the "same club" carried on ?!?!? How desperate are they to come up with such nonsense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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