Paul Chiles

Interim Executive working in health and social care; system and service transformation specialist; career coach and mentor. CPFC and VW campervans.

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@BobbyManzi 'Some' Palace fans......#cpfc

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@WhyteleafeEagle I blame Michael. He should pay.

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@MarcWilliams22 Plastic beer mug hit the bloke standing next to me. It cut his head and started bleeding. He went off to have it treated and I didn't see him again.

[Matt Evans @mevans_11]

@FYPFanzine @gazbod @UEFA So for 26/27 it’s…

“Thanks UEFA,
Thanks UEFA,
Thanks UEFA,
Thanks John Textor,
Thanks Marinakis.
You fat bastard / Where’s your trophy!” (I’m happy with either) 🏆🏆🏆

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@joserael @Celosia2 @annehainestyrer My first Genesis gig! 😍

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@sebastian1906 It's true!

[Crystal Palace London @Palace1861]

Before Wembley.
Before The Shard.

There was Crystal Palace.

https://t.co/niwrcEIiy6

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@fifamedia @EwanMacKenna Were you given a Fifa prize for block booking hotels?

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@selhurstpaw1 @WhyteleafeEagle Definitely a return trip to Poland!

[Selhurst Supply @SelhurstSupply]

❤️ GIVEAWAY TIME 💙

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Winner announced June 4th ! 📦🦅 #cpfc

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@pacman1712 @WhyteleafeEagle @NYEagles I wanted to do that, was it all in German? Went to the monument instead.

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@selhurstpaw1 @WhyteleafeEagle I'd love to go there.

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@dhugh3sy @WhyteleafeEagle He really is! Bumped into him near the Battle of the Nations monument, then on the tram on Thursday morning.

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@WhyteleafeEagle @Telstar22995931 And we held it up, above Mostar on the glass walkway and sang! 😁

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@somefinnspecial Sell her sparks by Captain Sensible and ?Paul Grey.

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@WhyteleafeEagle Meeting Michael in Mostar and Leipzig, with his dad, was a highlight. Along with meeting all the other fans I chatted to, from Frederikstad to Leipzig.

[Dean Henderson @deanhenderson]

Warra trophies 🏆 ❤️💙

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

My love for Crystal Palace was passed down to me by my Dad, who in turn had been made into a Palace fan by his old man.

From the very beginning, it was stressed to me that following our football club was not about glory or trophies, it was about supporting your local team, having pride in South London when so many at my school chose to support clubs from further afield because they won things, celebrating those triumphs through their TV screens rather than with their own two eyes.

I’ve had a season ticket at Palace for 24 years now, have done just under 650 games, been to 46 different grounds and seen us get hammered by the likes of Scunthorpe and Crewe to name just a couple. I wouldn’t change a single second of it but this last year has been completely surreal.

To see my team lift an FA Cup at Wembley was something I couldn’t quite my head around, generations before me had lived and died, my Grandad included without ever witnessing a major trophy win, the subsequent European tour has been the stuff of dreams.

Last night in Leipzig, I broke down in genuine floods of tears at full-time, not because it necessarily meant “more” than last season’s FA Cup but because I simply never comprehended Palace playing in Europe, let alone winning a trophy at our first attempt.

My little boy is now following in my footsteps with his love for the club and he gets to grow up in a time when Palace are multiple trophy winners, it’s a quantum leap away from where I was at 7 years old and I love the fact that he can go to school and genuinely stand with his chest puffed out because of the club’s achievements.

I’ll stop waffling bollocks now; I’m just so, so happy. ❤️

[Jason 🦅 @WhyteleafeEagle]

At the monument #cpfc

[Paul Chiles @paulchiles]

@SE25CPFC12 They did and sung and shouted through most of them. Quite unlike we were during their presentation.

Plus, so many Arsenal fans in the AW, many of whom moved in front of Palace fans (in block V, at least) and stood on the seats for their trophy lift.