It seems that counting chickens is a popular hobby in North London.
This year's FA Cup campaign has been punctuated with a number of remarkable giant-killings. Just this weekend saw Lincoln City overcome Premier League side Burnley, whilst Huddersfield forced a replay out of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, and Millwall beat champions of England Leicester City.
The quarter-final draw set up a few more potential banana skins: one of Manchester United and Chelsea will definitely be knocked out as they face one another; Spurs may well struggle against an obstinate Millwall; Middlesbrough could be scalp or scalpers against either Man City or Huddersfield; and then there's Arsenal.
The Gunners face National League side Sutton United at the Borough Sports Ground on Monday in the last of this week's 5th round ties. That means negotiating a team playing the game of their lives on an unfamiliar 3G surface - all under floodlights in obscure surroundings. It could be tricky.
Not that these Arsenal fans seem to think so. They are treating the game as such a formality that they've already assumed that they'll face Lincoln City in the next round. Not only that, but some of them are convinced that they'll thrash both Sutton and Lincoln on the way to Wembley.
Is it arrogance, or just matter-of-fact realism? Time will tell...
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