BitB 🧨

20 years of the HF - 25/26 is going to be special. Fuck Marinakis and Fuck UEFA Mafia - criminals running our game.

[BitB 🧨 @BobtheDane]

Utopia with the broskis 🙏🏻

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

CONFERENCE LEAGUE WINNERS 2026.

THIS STORY SHALL THE GOOD MAN TEACH HIS SON.

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

European Champions.

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

WE ARE THE BOYS WHO WON YOUR LITTLE GAME.

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Please share with all Palace fans.

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

We all dreamed of a European tour.

For twenty years as a group the goal was always European football. Without an active fan scene in England, supporters visit silent grounds with impossible restrictions backed up by draconian banning orders.

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[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

We’re all going to Leipzig - please share with all Palace fans.

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Play your part in Leipzig.

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[L @Patrickmuweng3]

3 english teams going to a final in 3 european comps

[L.i.am (@gilesyl14.bsky.social) @GilesyL14]

Kudos to whichever moron is responsible for the music post game, for ruining what could’ve been a fucking incredible & unique atmosphere at full time, deciding to blare music out over the fans. A great night but fuck me, what are the club playing at? #cpfc

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Instructions for this evening. Please share with all Palace fans in the away end.

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

Two great results on the pitch & an atmosphere for the ages on Thursday.

Sadly the club both games have killed it stone dead playing loud, shit music at the final whistle drowning out the celebrations.

Let the fans make the atmosphere.

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Fiorentina, part one. We’re almost there with the funds to cover the away display. If you can contribute, please donate via the link in bio.

We’re on our way.

[BitB 🧨 @BobtheDane]

@Holmesdale Again with the loud music drowning out the chants, stadium was rocking until that moment.

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

Legends are immortal but culture is for sale to marketing companies.

So, so grim.

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

The group has repeatedly warned the clubs board since first meeting with them in 2010 that Palaces identify must be an organic one defined by its fans.

Publicly, in 2017 the “Blinded By The Lights” banner was displayed along with an accompanying statement (image 4).

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[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Leeds (H)

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Zrinjski Mostar (H)

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Back the team, save the season.

Wolves (H)

[Holmesdale Fanatics @ultrascpfc]

Crystal Palace x Panionios