In the days leading up to the biggest match of his Crystal Palace managerial career and the club’s most important game since the 2016 FA Cup final, Oliver Glasner smiled rather mischievously and declared: “I’m calm.” And he meant it.
The same, he added, was not necessarily true of his players, though the volume of some of the laughs being shared in the changing room at Palace’s Copers Cope Road training ground suggested this is just another week.
