RED BULL ARENA – “We are the boys who will win your little game,” a Selhurst Park tifo read at the start of Crystal Palace’s Uefa Conference League journey.
They did, indeed, live up to the billing, beating Rayo Vallecano 1-0 in Wednesday’s final.
Despite feeling aggrieved after their demotion from the Europa League for failing to comply with multi-club ownership regulations, Palace embraced the competition from the start – after all, it was still a maiden European tour.
It did not work out too badly in the end; now they are European champions and have back-to-back seasons of continental football.
The October banner in question from Palace fans (Photo: Getty)
