Afternoon everyone and welcome to the last and biggest of this year’s FA Cup quarter-finals. The last time Manchester City went to Bournemouth, on 2 November, the result was that the tectonic plates of English football began to shift.

City were top of the league with seven wins from nine games, while Bournemouth were muddling along in mid-table. But it was Bournemouth who won the match, 2-1, and Liverpool who took over at the top as City fell from their pedestal like a deposed dictator. They lost their next three games and never looked forward. From that day to this, City have scraped just seven more league wins and have been the 13th-best team in the land – even worse than Man United.

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