Crystal Palace v Manchester City: Premier League – live

Crystal Palace: Henderson, Canvot, Richards, Tomiyasu, Khalaili, Kamada, Wharton, Mitchell, Nketiah, Pino, Larsen.
Subs: Benitez, Munoz, Disasi, Lerma, McNeil, Zavier Gozo, Hughes, Guessand, Mingueza.

Manchester City: Donnarumma, Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Anderson, Guehi, Foden, Cherki, Semenyo, Haaland.
Subs: Rulli, Kovacic, Ait Nouri, Vitor Reis, Echeverri, Bouaddi, McAidoo, Braithwaite, Lewis.

Referee: Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire)

That Palace’s Holmesdale Fanatics fan group are “stopping all organised activity” at Selhurst Park is particularly sad.

Here are some of the finest tifos by the Holmesdale Fanatics over the years.

Below is a tifo in memory of Maxi Jazz in May 2023, unveiled alongside Faithless lyrics from God Is a DJ that read “This is our church. This is where we heal our hurts”. Maxi died in December 2022. He was a West Norwood resident, a Palace supporter and in September 2012 he became an associate director of the club.

Below: a tifo before the Conference League final against Rayo Vallecano in May.

Below: a tifo showing Joel Ward lifting the FA Cup in August 2025, a few months after the 1-0 win over Manchester City at Wembley.

Below: a 2022 tifo depicting the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition in 1851.

Below: a tifo display celebrating 100 years of Selhurst Park, in September 2024.

Below: a tifo, at the 2025 FA Cup final, depicts three Palace supporters – father Mark Wealleans and sons Nathan and Dominic – who were once seen at Old Trafford in 2011 celebrating Darren Ambrose’s sensational strike against Manchester United. After Mark died of cancer in 2017, the image became a symbol of lost loved ones for Palace fans. Nathan and Dominic were in the crowd at Wembley in 2025 and were unaware that the tifo was planned until they saw the image of themselves and their late father with their own eyes.

“I had no idea it was going to be us,” Nathan later admitted. “I thought it was going to be something to do with a player retiring this season. Then out of nowhere someone told us and then we broke down in tears as soon as we saw. It was special, it shows there’s still a real love for not just my dad, but all the loved ones who love Palace and didn’t get to see it. All of them now know we’re on the next step.”

On Thursday, the Holmesdale Fanatics released the following statement, explaining their reasons for ceasing operations:

Increasingly driven out by the sky high ticket prices, needless restrictions that are designed to strip away the dignity of supporters and relentless harassment and legal action, many young people are choosing to opt out of a game which seems determined to push them away.

We have repeatedly warned the club that likeminded fans cannot congregate at Palace in the numbers required to sustain a growing active supporter culture. The conditions are simply not there. There needs to be a drastic shift at Palace towards younger fans and a move away from a culture in which people attend the ground expecting to be entertained, towards a culture of supporters turning up to play an active role in influencing the result.

The story away from home is even more dire. In domestic away fixtures, supporters are banned from bringing materials into stadiums, coaches are regularly stopped, and fans are arrested. Away ends across the country are increasingly dominated by older fans, with the next generation failing to come through in significant numbers.

Given these conditions, we have immense pride in all the group has achieved over the past 20 years. From being at the heart of the protests that rescued the club in 2010, to securing the away ticket price cap that has saved working class people millions and supporting the club through a record breaking period, the Holmesdale Fanatics has helped write a chapter in the club’s history that many did not believe was possible.

But now is the time for us to recognise we have taken the Holmesdale Fanatics as far as it can go in the current climate. We are therefore choosing to stop all organised activity as the Holmesdale Fanatics inside the stadium. We do not take this decision lightly.

The good news for Manchester City is that despite their woeful performance in the Community Shield, their fortunate late win over Bournemouth, the ongoing transfer uncertainty, the teething problems for Enzo Maresca and new signing Elliot Anderson, the club travel to Selhurst Park to face a Crystal Palace side in even more turmoil than themselves.

In recent years, Palace’s success has been built on their cohesion. Despite the significant departures in Michael Olise, Marc Guéhi and Eberechi Eze, Palace have won the FA Cup and a European trophy and secured strong mid-table finishes despite significant departures in Michael Olise, Marc Guéhi and Eberechi Eze. Recruitment has been excellent and the fans have never wavered, always passionately supporting their team, especially at home.

Pierre Sage, only a few weeks into the new job, is already fighting fires. Jean-Philippe Mateta is injured but wants out, as does Daniel Munoz – Nottingham Forest, now managed by Oliver Glasner, reportedly tabled a £22m bid this week for the Colombian. There is a Maxence Lacroix-shaped hole at the back and a deal for his replacement, Joel Ordonez, could be called off after complications with the Club Brugge defender’s medical. Meanwhile, Holmesdale Fanatics, Palace’s ultras group, has announced that it is disbanding. In short, it’s chaos in SE25, which will be music to City’s ears.