Dean Henderson said three days after Crystal Palace’s FA Cup final win he did not want to get out of bed. He went from a high to a low, felt depressed, did not know why, and had never spoken about it before. Players carry those “individual battles” alone.

Henderson said Palace had played “quarter-finals with the Carabao Cup run-in every three days” and that “people don’t realise the toll it takes on them.” ^{1 2}