Tell me ma, me ma I won't be home for tea . . . or supper or breakie or any time soon. I'm going to Wemberlee. To win a cup this time ma.

Aye, we must believe it's our turn at long last. It has to be. We've slaughtered a historically massive club, we have big-time players who step up on big occasions. Wor Jackie is smiling down on us. So is the Bobby Dazzler, Joe Harvey, Big Frank, and little Ernie Taylor. They want to be joined by a new generation of heroes.

The team which for the last two and a half seasons has officially stood as the second best in England cannot live with us. The Gunners are goners when Newcastle are on the opposite side of the halfway line. Three times Arsenal have faced the Geordies this season and three times they have lost. Five goals scored and not a solitary single one conceded. 1-0, 2-0 and 2-0. Are you listening Mikel Arteta?

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Once can be be considered lucky, twice a coincidence, but three times is conclusive. United have far too much power up top. Alexander Isak terrorised two Arsenal central defenders hailed as invincible. Anthony Gordon turned the opposition like a corkscrew. And Jacob Murphy punched way above his weight like an emerging heavyweight contender.

Sure, there is one gigantic step still to be taken and until it is absolutely nought is ours. So let us keep a sense of proportion. However it can be significantly different this time to when Man U topped us 2-0 in February of 2023. This is a far better side. That was an emerging one, this is a mature unit.

There will be a lot of firsts come March 16. Bruno is a new skipper aching to lift an trophy on our behalf. Gordon wasn't involved at all last time. Neither was Sandro Tonali or Lewis Hall. Isak and Murphy didn't start which means they were bit players. However the most intriguing aspect of all is in goal where soaring joy waits for one combatant and cruel heartache yet again for the other.

As it stands Martin Dubravka is in line for totally unexpected redemption. At a time when he expected to be sitting by his own private oil well in Saudi counting his retirement fund he is bound for Wembley where two years ago he was unable to play because he had fleetingly appeared for rivals Manchester United earlier in the competition. Man U eventually sent him a winner's medal as part of their original squad. May he earn one this time the proper way!

As for Nick Pope, seen as United's No 1 from the day he signed, it would mean missing out on two successive finals having been suspended for a single match - the match - last time. Football can in equal parts be kind and desperately cruel.

While we bathe in the sunlight of such a wonderful treble over Arsenal we must remember it matters not a jot unless Wembley is a glorious conclusion. I remember 74, 76, 98, 99 and 2023 with so much pain that must be swept away not added to because Geordies cannot stand more disappointment.

Now if we can forget our high for a moment - and we seem to reside either on top of the mountain or deep in the valley - next up is another domestic pot of real history. The FA Cup, once the property of Wor Jackie, sees the Mags at Birmingham City on Saturday tea with what will be a much changed team after the mental as well as physical exertions of midweek. Unbelievably United travel looking to triumph for the sixth successive time outside the comforts of SJP. Those who have bowed the knee? Ipswich Town, Manchester United, Spurs, Arsenal, and Southampton. All Premier League status.

League One leaders Birmingham, a club with a past but a limited present, are the opposition at the end of a long week of variety which has seen United play in the Premier League, Carabao Cup and now FA Cup. Do Newcastle need to keep going when the League Cup and Champions League qualification dominates the mind? You betya. Being in one final is fabulous but guarantees nowt bar a medal of some colour. The FA Cup is still an avenue of hope and we need to keep all open after so many years of the begging bowl.

United cannot showboat because football is not a tap to be turned off and on. Lose your rhythm as United did between the semi-final and final of the FA Cup in 74 and defeat is inevitable. Winning is a habit which breeds success.

Howe will inevitably spread the load at Birmingham making changes after the high octane mentally sapping victory midweek. He has the likes of Pope, Tino Livramento, Callum Wilson, Lewis Miley, Joe Willock, Sean Longstaff and Emil Krafth at his disposal but the major problem is out wide. Can he rest either Murphy or Gordon? How thin can you spread the butter? Willock could possibly play wide left but who on the other flank?

Eddie came up with all the answers on Wednesday night. We wait for him to do it again.