The Crystal Palace fans erupted. The decibel counter on the smartphone next to me showed 115.
And then disaster. A VAR check. An offside. Sarr was beyond the last defender when the ball struck him.
Crystal Palace fans celebrate after beating Man City (Photo: Getty)
For context: 110dB is the average pain threshold for unprotected ears, 115 is the volume of a power drill obliterating concrete or a rock concert, or a lion roaring if, as inadvisable as it would be, you’re stood next to it.
From the pre-match show, where a brass band played the instrumental to The Streets’ Turn the Page while a DJ spun drum and bass over them, increasing tempo, flames bursting around the stadium until your head felt like imploding, to Marc Guehi and Joel Ward lifting the trophy from the balcony (112dB), the final was a festival of deafening, mostly Crystal Palace-generated sound.
And how it shook. And how it was beautiful.
"The Eagles have landed."
The moment Crystal Palace won the FA Cup #FACup pic.twitter.com/olWqyz94NS
The scale tipped 112 for Palace’s opening goal. Maybe it was fractionally lower than Munoz’s offside because it was scored at the far end of the pitch. Possibly it took them by surprise: Eberechi Eze finishing a sweeping breakaway goal was Palace’s first shot in 16 minutes during which they’d had 15.9 percent possession, and an xG of 0.1.
The volume dropped to 80dB while fans waited anxiously for VAR to check if City had won a penalty – awarded by referee Stuart Attwell in the 35th minute for Tyrick Mitchell’s slide tackle on Bernardo Silva.
It rose back into the high 80s as they tried to put Omar Marmoush, shooting towards them, off his stride. Then rocketed to 114 when Dean Henderson pulled of a stunning double save, diving right to keep out Marmoush’s effort then clutching Erling Haaland’s rebound.
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Wembley officials started bursting thousands of red and blue balloons released in the Palace end, the sound punctured half-time.
It reached the mid-90s when Henderson was at full stretch to keep out Jeremy Doku’s dangerous curler and Kevin De Bruyne skied a promising rebound.
It hit 90 when the Palace fans chanted “We forgot that you were here” to the bewildered City fans shielding their eyes at the other end.
SAVED BY HENDERSON
Omar Marmoush misses from the spot #FACup pic.twitter.com/PfvBowkW6V
It was regularly in the mid-90s, midway through the second half, as they kept a steady pulse of noise coming. Ninety-one when Daichi Kamada controlled the ball with his chest on the edge of City’s penalty area then struck the ball over. One hundred when Munoz curled a shot beyond the left post. It wasn’t even close. It didn’t even matter.
They cheered at 101 as shots from Doku and De Bruyne rolled aimlessly wide, at 108 as Phil Foden overhit a cross that bounced out of play. The jeers and whistles reached 90 as City mounted one final attack.
At the final whistle, it was 113.
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