Joel Ward stepped onto the field at Wembley early in his Palace career, having signed on the presumption he would have a relegation fight on his hands. At full-time, he stepped off it a hero, and a Premier League player.
“It was a boyhood dream to be able to walk out onto that pitch,” he remembers as he prepares to relive the moment in the documentary series When Eagles Dare – which comes out after midnight on Friday, 4th June.
“I’ve been there as a fan so many times.