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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Taha Hashim

Wembley wins, Uefa blows and Eze: the bittersweet times of Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace fans show what they think of Uefa at Wembley. Photograph: Matt Impey/Shutterstock

TIN POT HALF FULL?

These are bittersweet days at Selhurst Park. Win a first major trophy? Yay! Get demoted from Bigger Vase to Tin Pot? Eeeek. Away day to Lausanne for an appeal to overturn the decision? Believe. Beat the league champions at Wembley? Life is beautiful and the sunshine will never leave us. Lose the appeal the very next day? Life is a cruel, unrelenting beast and we reside on a dying planet marching towards extinction. Now comes the news of Eberechi Eze’s departure to Arsenal, brutal even if an exit was expected, another example of the big boys nabbing from the Premier League’s middle class.

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