SELHURST PARK — In weather so rancid even the cheerleaders had their club-branded coats on, corkscrewing winds and rain rattling the iron roof like gunfire, 50 or so Crystal Palace fans stuck around to boo their team down the tunnel.
Selhurst Park was pockmarked with empty seats, miserable and muted. The crowd seemed reticent to move or else let in the cold, barely rising above a dull drone which made the place seem faintly haunted.
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Read MoreVictory on Sunday could have put them 11th, above Brentford and in reach of the top half. Maybe this was a continuation of the delayed progress of last season?
This is a club stuck in a holding pattern, trapped between fear of failure and fear of hubris, condemned to comfortable, shapeless mediocrity for time immemorial.
And so we end up here: confecting outrage at a correct VAR call just to feel something.
There are clear benefits to how Steve Parish has run Palace over the past decade. Relegation has never been a genuine threat. One FA Cup final and another semi.
But why do Palace actually exist? Who is this all for? What are a football club supposed to provide? Surely more than this.
“Many parts [of the performance] was okay, but okay was not good enough,” Oliver Glasner said. Yet okay has been good enough here for a decade. Perhaps it always will be.
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Read MoreRomain Esse, signed for £14.5m from Millwall last week, was the sole provider of genuine excitement, scoring with his first Premier League touch off the bench. The Esse-Eberechi Eze partnership could eventually be brilliant, but without a quality structure around them, it won’t really matter.
The rest of the season will probably be okay, perhaps slightly better. Next season will almost certainly be okay. Revenue and budget should guarantee that. But how much longer can this go on until everyone involved needs to feel something more than okay?
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