Rewind, but don’t go too far back. Because it doesn’t take long for the picture to be very different indeed. Just 54 days ago, Crystal Palace captain Marc Guéhi thumped home a late headed winner at Craven Cottage that catapulted the Eagles to fourth in the Premier League with more than a third of the season gone.
They had European football for the first time, were Carabao Cup quarter-finalists, and had beaten Liverpool three times in 81 days during a club-record 19-game unbeaten run. Still alive was the feeling of a club living its wildest dreams, having won the FA Cup and the Community Shield — and made Wembley shake, twice.
