Crystal Palace fans cause £40,000 damages to one of team's own buses 
 
 Crystal Palace's team coach was vandalised by their own fans before win over Middlesbrough - Pic credit: Jack Willis 
 
 Crystal Palace fans accidentally vandalised their own team bus before Saturday's vital 1-0 Premier League win over Middlesbrough. 
 
 The vandals caused an estimated £40,000 in damages by painting Crystal Palace FC in red, white and blue graffiti along one side of the coach. 
 
 They are believed to have thought it was Middlesbrough's team bus, when it had been loaned to the club by Palace after Aitor Karanka's squad flew down to London on Friday. 
 
 The coach was vandalised while parked at a hotel near Palace's Selhurst Park home. 
 
 Crystal Palace 1-0 Middlesbrough 
 
 A Crystal Palace spokesman told The Sun: "The team bus was covered in graffiti with the words "Crystal Palace" overnight on Friday ahead of the game on Saturday. Police have been informed." 
 
 Palace went on to claim three valuable points and move out of the bottom three thanks to a single goal from January signing Patrick van Aanholt. 
 
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 Crystal Palace's team coach was vandalised prior to Saturday's 1-0 win over Middlesbrough, with the club's name and colours sprayed on to it. 
 
 Contrary to speculation, the coach had not been provided for Boro to use for their visit to Selhurst Park. 
 
 The Eagles used another bus to travel to the Premier League game. 
 
 A club spokesman said: "The team bus was covered in graffiti overnight on Friday ahead of the game on Saturday. Police have been informed." ||||| Police ordered soccer clubs in London to postpone matches as violence and looting spread across the British capital Monday for a third night with buildings being set ablaze. 
 
 A masked youth pulls a burning garbage bin set on fire by rioters in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Youths set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London _ which will host next... (Associated Press) 
 
 A building burns as a riot police officer watches in Croydon, south London, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Violence and looting spread across some of London's most impoverished neighborhoods on Monday, with youths... (Associated Press) 
 
 British riot police officers are deployed during riots in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Youths set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London _ which will host next summer's... (Associated Press) 
 
 British police officers charge rioters, during riots in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Youths set fire to shops and vehicles in a host of areas of London _ which will host next summer's Olympic... (Associated Press) 
 
 As police struggled to contain the spiraling disorder, League Cup matches due to take place at West Ham and Charlton on Tuesday were postponed due to security resources being stretched. 
 
 England's friendly against the Netherlands on Wednesday at Wembley Stadium in north London is also under threat, although officials will meet with police 24 hours before the match to discuss the situation. 
 
 West Ham, though, said police told it to postpone the League Cup match against Aldershot on Tuesday because "all major public events in London were to be rearranged." 
 
 The east London club said it was "because of the need to focus police resources elsewhere." 
 
 "Whilst neither the club or police anticipate any issues around the game itself, the club has to comply with the police request," West Ham said. 
 
 South London side Charlton said its cup match against Reading was being called off "on safety grounds" on advice from the police. 
 
 The violence, which is unrelated to any soccer issues, began late Saturday near Tottenham's ground in north London when a peaceful protest against the fatal police shooting of a man in disputed circumstances degenerated into a rampage. 
 
 The damage at Tottenham's White Hart Lane stadium was limited to a ticket office, which remains closed. 
 
 But Tottenham announced that stadium tours have been canceled for "safety reasons," while the neighborhood's main shopping street remains cordoned off on Monday, with steam still rising from burnt-out buildings. 
 
 The opening game of the Premier League season, however, is still due to go ahead. 
 
 "Following the disturbances in Tottenham over the weekend, the club has been in ongoing discussions with the necessary authorities regarding this coming weekend's Premier League fixture against Everton," Tottenham said in a statement. "We can advise fans that at this stage the game is going ahead and the Club is doing everything it can to ensure that this remains the position." 
 
 Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said the club is "deeply saddened" by the weekend rioting, in which buildings in the area were torched and police officers injured. 
 
 "The club is committed to supporting its community with help with both the physical clean up of our area and the longer term rebuilding of the community spirit," Levy said. "It is more critical than ever that community, business and political leaders _ local and national, public and private _ now work closely together to support the regeneration of this area and we shall certainly look to play our part in that." 
 
 But there has also been anger directed against the club among locals since Levy unveiled plans last year to bid for the right to move into the Olympic Stadium in east London after the 2012 Games. Although the stadium was awarded to rival club West Ham, Tottenham is still challenging that decision in court. 
 
 The club also announced last month that it was still looking to resurrect plans to build a new stadium next to its current home by applying for public funding. 
 
 Levy did not directly refer to the club's future in Tottenham in Monday's statement condemning the weekend violence.
– Fans of a British soccer club in the Premier League may need to take their zeal down a notch after an incident over the weekend that reportedly ended up costing their own team nearly $50,000, reports the Telegraph. Crystal Palace devotees determined to make a literal mark on rival team Middlesbrough the night before the two teams faced off descended early Saturday upon what they believed to be the Middlesbrough bus parked at a hotel in a London suburb. The vandals spray-painted "Crystal Palace FC" on the side of the vehicle in red, white, and blue—a move that did little but serve as an ownership tag, because the bus was actually Crystal Palace's. A groundsman for the CP team grumbled about the incident on Twitter in a now-private tweet, noting, "£40,000 worth of damage on our coach thinking it was the Boro coach. Nice one!" The Sun notes that the hotel where the bus was parked, near Crystal Palace's home stadium, is often frequented by visiting soccer teams. Despite an assertion by Sky Sports that the vehicle was on loan to Middlesbrough from Crystal Palace because they'd flown to the match, the BBC reports that was not the case. The Guardian notes the CP team had to arrange for another bus to take the players to their Middlesbrough matchup, which they won 1-0. A Crystal Palace rep says the cops have been notified. (This soccer player's national anthem protest was foiled—by the opposite team.)