Crystal Palace fans have reportedly caused ‘£40,000’ worth of damage to their own team bus, according to reports, after mistaking it for the visitors Middlesbrough’s team coach.
In fact, that isn’t far from the truth as Middlesbrough did use the coach for their visit to Selhurst Park on Saturday, however the team who are struggling for form in the Premier League, flew down to London and borrowed the coach off the Eagles to use whilst they were in London.
The act of vandalism occurred before Palace’s 1-0 win over Middlesbrough, with the words ‘Crystal Palace FC’ being spray-painted onto the coach, outside of the hotel where the visitors were staying.
Twitter: Palace fans vandalise what they think is the boro coach. But boro flew down and borrowed one of the palace coaches… https://t.co/dRqZLfTCJT (@Rickyc1234)
Crystal Palace’s assistant head groundsman, Dean Waters, posted a tweet on Twitter about the vandalism before shortly changing his privacy settings, hiding the tweet.
The tweet read: “£40,000 worth of damage on our coach thinking it was the Boro coach. Nice one! #cpfc,”
Speaking to the Sun Sport, a Palace spokesman has confirmed that the club’s coach had been vandalised with Police also being informed of the incident.
“The team bus was covered in graffiti with the words ‘Crystal Palace’ overnight on Friday ahead of the game on Saturday. Police have been informed,” a spokesman told the Sun Sport.
