Captain Mark Noble summed it all up at the end declaring: “It was written in the stars.”
And he added that there was a total determination not to lose despite facing facing a very good Manchester United side.
He said: “They make the pitch so big but we were never going to lose. We just wouldn’t accept that and I am so totally proud of of the players.
“In previous seasons we would have been beaten but not this squad – there’s such an amazing spirit and in the end as I say it was written in the stars for us.”
Winston Reid – who now enters the history books as the last goalscorer at the Boleyn – simply said: “It was simply meant to be.”