Brighton 5 Palace 0 - great, but it could have been 8-0 if we’re allowed to be greedy, says Ian Hart.

So now the ‘Derby Day’ dust has settled, how do we all actually feel?

The already free-scoring Albion, having despatched defending champions Arsenal at the previous Amex EPL game, humbled deadliest rivals Crystal Palace 5-0 on what was a truly ‘Super Sunday’.

For the number of us who had to witness the flip-side defeat, 5-0 at Selhurst Park in October 2002, it was the kind of redemption we have only dreamed about for nearly a quarter of a century.

Yet in the wake of the emphatic victory I thought about the words of late and much missed old mate, Roy Chuter, who once quipped that rather than Sussex By The Sea, the Albion, given what some fans were like back then, and are even more so now, should run out to, Queen’s “I want it all, and I want it now”.

And have asked myself the question in the last 24 hours or so - am in that category?

I simply loved Sunday, my company was one of the match sponsors, so the signed shirt I was given as part of our package will now take pride of place at Chez Hart next to my Muhammad Ali shorts!

But by 4.30pm and still basking in the beautiful, yes beautiful, victory, in an almost a persevere way it wasn’t enough! Yes it was a record Brighton victory against Palace, and it will live long in the memory, but the 6, 7 or even 8 goals that Albion actually deserved would have truly been a generational victory.

Due to their father’s Tottenham allegiance (don’t ask!) my grandsons currently wear the kits of two EPL clubs, but like mumps and measles that will pass. In time as future Amex season ticket holders I could have told them with almost the same of excitement as Sunday, in 5, 10 or 20 years, about the derby to end all derbies, Brighton 8 Palace 0.

But that was not to be, though my slight regret will be dwarfed in the aforementioned years to come with the memories of Sunday.

The principal one was another Albion memory to last a lifetime.

Bobby Zamora, I’m sorry old boy, your strike against Halifax at the Withdean in 2000 is no longer my greatest Albion goal - Diego Gomez, from the halfway line against Palace, October 2026, already a serious contender for BBC’s goal of the season, ironically in same net Julio Enciso scored the 22/23 competition winner, is now the clubhouse leader for me - and probably always will be, unless Jack Hinshelwood nets a screamer in a future Champions League final!

But what now? My old fanzine mucker, Pete Kennard, another veteran of October 2002, texted me on Monday. With Man City clearly out of the equation he feels, like a few others, that if Albion relatively stay injury free, having already humbled Arsenal they could actually emulate Leicester City’s achievements of 2015/16.

As I wrote last week is this unrealistic? Well after Sunday, many in football, are now suggesting it. Well we can hope, we can dream, to a degree even believe.

What I do know these truly are our halycon Albion days, so who knows, is that trophy will all crave is not that far away?

By the way, great imagination by the Palace support with their inflatable trophies on Sunday, 9 minutes in I wonder how many were looking up Amazon’s returns T&Cs?

As dear old Doris Day famously sung “Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be will be”.