Isn't there some suggestion that Crystal Palace might be moving back to the Park? If so that would make it a very short trip from FH on the Overground and perhaps the town centre might get a bit of extra business and atmosphere on match days which would probably be a good thing.

If you are travelling in the other direction to watch Arsenal I always believed that the word "Gooners" was a derogatory term that Spurs fans started using for describing Arsenal fans back in the seventies. Arsenal fans then adopted the word to describe themselves just as Spurs fans have adopted a word that was used to describe them by Arsenal fans.

The word used by Arsenal fans to describe Spurs fans was clearly racist but the use of the word Gooners may also be connected to Arsenal's black players and so could also be racist in origin. Football chants tend to be created in a spontaneous and hooliganistic manner which makes it difficult to come up with a definitive answer as to their origin many years later.

The moral of the story is that people get very tribal about where they live and what football team they support. They are not always able to discuss the issue in the measured tones of the contributors to this forum.