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That's why this competition continues to matter, because clubs like Palace will never win a Premier League but they may win a Cup, the way Wigan did and Portsmouth did within the last 17 years.

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That's why dreamers still have a place in football.

Because dreams can become reality. It is possible.

More rational people will say Manchester City were robbed on Saturday.

And - in a sense - they were.

They should have been playing against 10 men following Dean Henderson's evident misuse of his hands outside his penalty area.

Palace escaped that misde-meanour and yet we cannot focus on one mistake on a day as big as this because we have to remember where they were, as a team, early this season.

They didn't win any of their opening eight league games and at the halfway point of the campaign, they had just three league wins to their name.