Bdd. Bdd. Bdd-dd.
Then they put Glad All Over on.
They have played that at Selhurst since 1968, when the Dave Clark Five did a concert there and somebody in the office had an idea, and this club has played it before every home match for 50 years.
"AND I'M FEELIN'..."
"PALACE!"
"...GLAD ALL OVER."
"PALACE!"
60,000 people in a stadium that is not theirs, doing the thing they do in a stadium that is.
Then the anthem.
Tony Britten wrote it in 1992 and UEFA asked him for Handel, so he gave them Zadok the Priest, written in London in 1727 for a coronation and recorded for UEFA by 2 London orchestras. London music, off London music, played by London musicians, in front of a south London football club for the first time in 113 years.
It is in 3 languages and none of them matter. Everybody in Europe knows the same 2 words in the middle of it, neither of them is English, and 60,000 people shouted both.
RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA.
