text: 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."
target: – 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.)