If an incredible run in the FA Cup continues on Sunday, Arsenal will reach Wembley for a third consecutive season.

The Gunners have won twice at Wembley in each of the last two seasons, successfully negotiating semi-finals and finals in order to lift the famous old trophy for an eleventh time in 2014 and a record twelfth time last year.

Three FA Cup wins (one courtesy of a replay against Hull City) later, and Arsène Wenger’s side are on the verge of equalling a club record set by the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira.

Just over a decade ago another Wenger team won back-to-back FA Cups, winning the 2002 and 2003 finals in Cardiff before falling short in the 2004 semi-final against Manchester United.

A win in Sunday’s quarter-final will see Arsenal move on to 16 consecutive FA Cup ties won, a tally no club has beaten since Blackburn Rovers back 1887. Rovers won the trophy three years in a row and were the last team to do so.

Incredibly, the Arsenal team of 2002-2004 are the only other side to ever win 16 consecutive ties, so Arsène Wenger could do the unprecedented on Sunday by beating Watford and reach that incredible number, a number nobody else has ever reached, for the second time.

Nobody can ever truly claim the boss doesn’t take the tournament seriously.