To be honest, even allowing for the expected fan bitterness (come on, we all do it) I didn't think we played all that great either.
I thought we showed a lot of smarts, determination and some good stuff in patches but it was also important to get a good result and that was what was achieved.
We're not going to get a lot of credit, and to be honest, we're amongst a pile of clubs of moderate ability. But like everyone else I'll get a great deal of satisfaction if/when we ram it back down their throats.
With due derference to Roy I took the quotes below from another PL club's forum this evening - not a club either we or Palace have any rivalry with. I'd be interested to know if anyone can guess whose fans these are:
"I'd heard lots of good things about Sheffield United. That they had changed their style of play and now play good football. Looks like the same type of rough em up and kick him off the park type football to me. Not much finesse to their play."
"Exactly what I was thinking some thuggish tackling going on"
"I’m by no means a football snob, but this is no different to watching a championship game"
"Something quite Warnockesque about both these teams. Everyone putting some kind of shift in. McBurnie £20m? Ok"
"Palace are crap Sheffield United kicked them all over the park but they didn't show any fight at all"
"Villa are the new Fulham, Sheff u the new Cardiff . Will just spend all season kicking people and time wasting with 25 to go"