It was fitting, in this of all seasons, that the defining image from Wembley was of a son clutching the FA Cup to his chest, his eyes closed, as he took a moment to remove himself from the pandemonium that surrounded him and filled that empty silver trophy with all the contents of his heart.
That son was Leicester City chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Above him, a banner of his late father Vichai stretched across the Wembley stands. Beside Vichai’s smiling face, his words: ‘Our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them’.