Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate will put history to one side as he attempts to pull off an FA Cup and Premier League survival double.
Boro head into Sunday's quarter-final against Everton at Goodison Park entrenched in a desperate fight to retain their top-flight status.
Whatever happens on Merseyside, the Teessiders will return knowing they have 10 games in which to stave off relegation - something they famously failed to do the last time they reached the final of club football's most famous knockout competition.
Back in 1997, a Boro side including Juninho, Fabrizio Ravanelli and Emerson went to Wembley twice - losing the League Cup final to Leicester after a replay and then the FA Cup final to Chelsea.
However, worse was to follow as they slipped out of the Premier League - and the pain of that treble disappointment remains acute for the club's supporters.
But as memories of that season come flooding back, Southgate is adamant they are irrelevant.
He said: "It's not really of any relevance. It's recent history, but it doesn't have any bearing.
"It's a different group of players, a different group of staff - and we are looking forward.
"I hope we get to a final - that's the first thing; then it's for us to make sure we get our league form sorted.
"But we are only at the quarter-final stage at the moment with a hell of a game on our hands, so we can worry about those sorts of scenarios a bit further down the line."
Boro looked to have belatedly embarked upon a road to salvation in the league last Saturday when they turned in a fine display to defeat title-chasing Liverpool 2-0 at the Riverside Stadium, and they headed for Tottenham on Wednesday brimming with confidence.
But Spurs dusted themselves down after their agonising Carling Cup final penalty shoot-out defeat by Manchester United to score four times without replay and plunge the Teessiders back into the mire.
Southgate, who has never sought to prioritise as his side continues to compete on two fronts, is convinced the situation in the league is retrievable.
He said: "It's all in our hands. We have got fixtures against teams who are in the pack above us, and they will be key.
"But we have known for a while that we were going to have to grind on and pick up results we weren't expected to.
"We did that against Liverpool, and that raised expectations for Tottenham - and had we got a point at Tottenham, that would have been a brilliant result for us.
"But we didn't, and the size of the defeat makes it look a lot worse - and obviously affects the goal difference. But it means there is no hiding place for any of us."
For a couple of days at least, the focus will be on Everton and the prospect of a Wembley semi-final - and perhaps a return trip as Boro attempt to make up for a missed opportunity when they bowed out of the competition at the same stage last season to Cardiff, who went on to play Portsmouth in the final.
Southgate said: "We don't have a league game until next Saturday and really we want to give the FA Cup everything we have got, once you have come this far in a competition.
"If we didn't have any interest in winning it, we might as well have put out the youth team against Barrow (in the third round).
"Now we have gone three or four games, you want to keep that run going.
"We only had the chance to win two competitions at the start of the season, and this is one of them."
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