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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Matt Davis-Adams.

A year after winning the F-A. Cup, Crystal Palace have another piece of silverware

to place in their newly installed trophy cabinet.

Oliver Glasner's parting gift was to deliver the Conference League.

So, what comes next for Palace?

Alongside me a pair of giddy Eagles experts out in Leipzig, our Crystal Palace correspondent, Matt Wuznham. How are you doing, Matt?

I'm good, thanks, Matt. And we got Don Fyfield with us too. Dom, you okay? I'm fine. Matt didn't sound very excited at all, did he?

I'd say it was the response of a man who finished work at four o'clock this morning and has been

asked to come back on at nine o'clock this morning. All right, so this time last season, Crystal

Palace was celebrating their first ever major trophy.

On Wednesday night, they added another in the shape of the Conference League.

Lovely trophy it is too. Matt, you're out in Leipzig, as I said. Just sum up what this means for Palace.

Yeah, it's an absolutely incredible achievement. Obviously, winning the F I caught was special.

Palace were underdogs in and

expect to win that last year. I think there was an expectation from, you know, some

quarters that Palace would win the conference lead. They were the favourites pre-tournament,

but, you know, Oliver Glasna spoke a lot and railed against that a lot about how can a team

in their debut campaign be the favourites to win a

European trophy? All of that side, regardless of any of that, it's an absolutely outstanding

achievement. You know, it's fantastic. It means so much the fans who dreamt of a European journey,

let alone winning in Europe, winning a game in Europe, or even, you know, even drawing in Europe. They didn't even dream

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