Things have been going well for Crystal Palace lately, both on and off the pitch.
The hiring of Oliver Glasner turned out to be a historic one, the only real problem being that the season ended prematurely for the Eagles last season. Glasner was just getting warmed up.
His teams have been brilliant as they dismantled West Ham, Aston Villa, Man United and Newcastle United at Selhurst Park, and took all three points from Liverpool at Anfield.
The neighbors of the Crystal Palace training ground are not happy
Recognition of how well the team was playing was given when Adam Wharton, Marc Guehi, Eberechi Eze and Dean Henderson were all selected by former Palace captain and now England manager Gareth Southgate in his Euro 2024 squad.
Neither side has more players in the squad, which is a stunning vote of confidence in what Palace are doing in South London.
However, not everyone is happy with the team's success. At least not the neighbors of the club's Academy ground on Coopers Cope Road.
A densely populated residential area in Beckenham, there are apparently already enough traffic problems in the area where Palace's youth teams play at weekends, or train on summer evenings.
Now, News Shopper reports on Palace's plans to install floodlights which will allow them to host weekday evening games at the venue.
That is clearly a step too far for locals, and 48 of them apparently raised objections.
They count the risk of the road being extremely busy at certain times of the day and evening, with parents and their children apparently not allowed to enter the training center and waiting outside on the pavements.
It is clearly an emotive topic and could have a negative impact on the club.
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