With 12 minutes left at Wembley, the television cameras picked out the lonely figure of Derek Burridge.
The elderly Brentford fan was in the stands when the Bees last rubbed shoulders with the country’s elite.
And on this warm afternoon, he sat alone, surrounded only by red seats and a social distance.
Emiliano Marcondes is congratulated by team-mate Henrik Dalsgaard as Brentford managed to get the better of Swansea
It was an image that encapsulated Brentford’s painful push for the promised land: they have waited 74 years and the final two chapters of this remarkable return have been written under the dark clouds of Covid.