The harder you work, so the old saying goes, the luckier you get. For Tyrick Mitchell, this has never been the case.
Still just 21-years-old, the Palace defender has completed his first full season with the first-team, but it took some fight to get there: an Academy shutdown, injuries at the worst possible times, and a global pandemic that has meant he is still yet to play in front of a full stadium more than a league after his Premier League debut.
“You can work hard and it not be enough,” he says, “but if you don’t work hard it will never be enough.