It is of course never good to wish time away, but Crystal Palace fans must now be imagining if this was August and the football season was only just starting, rather than May and the final knockings of a long campaign.
Oliver Glasner’s team are one of the form sides in the Premier League, and this victory registered their sixth win in their last seven games in a quite superb end to the season.
Jean-Philippe Mateta scored a hat-trick to bring his tally to a remarkable 13 goals in his past 13 games and Crystal Palace, by virtue of this win, moved up two places to finish tenth in the table, which made them a handy extra £6.2 million in prize money.
Aston Villa had