If there was ever a day when Alex Yee had second thoughts about his London Marathon experiment, it came not on some gruelling training run, but with Eddie Nketiah’s clinching goal in last month’s FA Cup quarter-final for his beloved Crystal Palace.
“Honestly, that moment where I Googled the date of the semi-final was the worst,” he tells Standard Sport. “It came up with April 26 or 27 and I was like: ‘You have got to be kidding me?’ If it was the final, mate, there would have been a tough call!”
