Manchester United played like champions and lost. Arsenal played like shite and won. It was all very good for the football neutral. To the dejected Man U fan, you could cackle like a hen on amphetamines. To the jubilant Arse supporter, you could tell him that his team deserved it as much as Bush deserves to be President. What's more, get them both together and you could quite easily instigate a fistfight.

But otherwise, it all really sucked cos Newcastle, the only team worthy of the FA cup, was sitting on its ass on Tyneside with nary a thing to do but brood over its double-digit place finish and place side bets on when the next Dyer-Bowyer bust-up would be.