What Crystal Palace fans chanted to Spurs supporters - it involves Millwall | OneFootball

Millwall were name-dropped in a chant aimed at Tottenham Hotspur from Crystal Palace supporters during Thursday's 3-1 win in North London

The respective battles against relegation from the Premier League and promotion out of the Championship are continuing to intensify as we edge closer towards a dramatic finale of the 2025/26 campaign, which will ultimately end up either elation or heartache for a host of teams.

Although Burnley and a relatively-resurgent Wolves side under Rob Edwards both remain poised to suffer relegation to the Championship, the likes of Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, West Ham United and, most surprisingly of all, Tottenham Hotspur, are in a four-horse race to avoid the same fate heading into the season's twilight.

Any of those four sides could plausibly end up swapping places with one of Coventry City, Middlesbrough, Millwall or Ipswich Town in the race for automatic promotion to the top-flight, while Hull City, Wrexham AFC, Southampton, Derby County and Watford are all battling it out to finish in the top-six and roll the dice in the play-offs.

With only two months left to run of the current campaign, no shortage of drama and unpredictability is in store as promotion and relegation battles continue to unfold.

Perhaps the most interesting drama, though, is Spurs' ongoing - though increasingly-faltering - bid to avoid dropping down to the Championship. The Premier League giants have been among the poorest Premier League sides over the last two seasons, but with the relegation-threatened crop much more competitive this time around, Spurs have been found out and are at serious risk of being relegated out of the top-flight amid a five-match losing streak.

Even in their pomp, of course, Spurs have rarely been too far from ridicule, and one chant bellowed out by Crystal Palace during the North Londoners' 3-1 home defeat to Oliver Glasner's side on Thursday evening epitomised exactly where they're at right now - even if Millwall may have something to say about it.

What Crystal Palace fans chanted to Spurs involving Millwall

It was an archetypal collapse from Igor Tudor's beleaguered Spurs side, who raced into the ascendancy after 34 minutes through Dominic Solanke but went down to ten men just moments after and handed the initiative to Palace courtesy of a reckless dismissal for Micky van de Ven.

Ismaila Sarr promptly converted his spot-kick to restore parity and Jorgen Strand Larsen fired the Eagles ahead five minutes later before the ex-Watford winger doubled his tally on the cusp of half-time, to which the hosts never responded.

Travelling Palace supporters were rightly euphoric afterwards and made a racket of noise as Spurs fans headed for the exit. They took aim at the opposition's current fortunes, and with relegation potentially on the horizon for the Lilywhites, chants of "say hello to Millwall" began to emerge from the away end.

There's rarely much love lost between Palace and Millwall across the South London divide, and the Eagles are hardly wrong to point out that Igor Tudor's men could reasonably wind up playing second-tier football come August.

The only fault, however, is that Millwall themselves may just be in a higher division than Spurs by the time that next season rolls around.

Considering the Lions are yet to grace the Premier League and Spurs have spent just one campaign outside of the top-flight since 1950, it's a bizarre and unfathomable scenario that nobody could've ever anticipated potentially playing out.

However, both clubs have endured contrasting trajectories in recent times and, if Millwall can continue to maintain their promotion-pursuing efforts, it's unlikely that Spurs will be greeting Palace's South London rivals next term.

Millwall's current Premier League promotion bid

Millwall have enjoyed fine form under Alex Neil this season, transitioning from perennial top-six hopefuls to sure-fire contenders for automatic promotion.

They're very much in the reckoning despite lacking the individual quality and financial muscle possessed by some divisional rivals, and while Ipswich or Middlesbrough may be better-placed to seize a top-two spot alongside Frank Lampard's rejuvenated, league-leading Coventry outfit, Millwall must not be discounted just yet.

The Lions are positioned in fourth place with just 11 games remaining, and only four points separate Neil's side from Middlesbrough in second ahead of tomorrow afternoon's crunch trip to fellow promotion hopefuls Hull.

Millwall have lost just two league games since the turn of the year and, with four victories from their last five outings, momentum is rocking at The Den and supporters are beginning to dream with increasing plausibility over a first-ever promotion to the Premier League.