Well, how about that.
The clubs first quarter final appearance since that forgotten cup run of 1994/95.
While Palace fans had a great time yesterday, our joy was not reflected in the national coverage.
To be fair, Chelsea versus Manchester City was a higher profile tie, and West Ham United are a seriously good side with Dmitri Payet in form.
If we had played on Saturday in the slot dedicated to Emirates sponsored Arsenal’s latest tricky home tie in the Emirates sponsored cup, the coverage might have been better.
Enough of that.
I want to concentrate on our winning goal for a moment, while looking forward to the summer.
While four English qualified players out of the 36 guys were warming up at Stamford Bridge, several miles to the north-east an English international sucked in four players on his own before passing to a fellow England international to control and shoot home.
I suspect that Wilfried Zaha and Martin Kelly are unlikely to challenge the number of England caps won by Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore but surely Wilf deserves a bit of re-consideration.
There is a very open European Championship tournament taking place in France this summer. France, Belgium, Germany and Spain all look better bets to win, but England do have half a chance with a prevailing wind and a brave selection.
We lack great defenders but we do have some half decent young midfield players and forwards.
When Woy puts his squad together, injury permitting, he should definitely pick the likes of Dele Alli, Ross Barkley, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Theo Walcott, fat boy Rooney and Raheem Sterling. All players we can pretty much agree on.
He will pick goalies and defenders too. I am fine with that.
Here is the bit I worry about. He has 22 names inked in and one space left. He has three names remaining – James Milner, Ryan Mason and Wilf.
Milner and Mason will run around lots and will be happy to wear a variety of different colour bibs in training. Milner might be useful in a penalty shoot-out.
But Wilf is not a fan of a luminous bib and might get a bit moody in training, there is every chance he could scare the living daylights of the opposition if he is given fiftenn minutes to attack a tiring defence.
Let’s look at Palace’s winning goal yesterday. He got the ball with a marker close by. He controlled the ball, beat the marker, found space to open up an attacking position. He then wrong-footed several defenders buying Kelly 15-20 metres of space to run into, then played a delicate pass to create the chance.
Wilf can do that. Milner and Mason cannot. Milner and Mason will be far better handing out water bottles of course.
Wilf has to be the 23rd Man.
Tell Woy.
