One of the clickbait sites has an article from "My London" talking about a primary school very close to Selhurst park (5 minutes walk) where in a class of 32 kids only 6 had been to SP, only 5 supported Palace & all of the other kids supported big 6 teams, but interspersed with that were a number who hoped the local club did well -

I guess the findings of the article shouldn't surprise me as similar was happening all those years ago when I was at school, but back then Palace were a 3rd division side, with second division aspirations etc (you all know the journey) We were a long way from the glamour of being a mid table premier league club that we are today -

IDK I guess I just expected a bit more local support from kids coming up through the years when there is a PL club just down the road that you can go & watch live on a semi regular basis rather than say Man Utd where most will never get to see them play unless its against us at SP -