Tottenham 3-4 Man City was the best game in FA Cup history

Everybody knows that the best nights out are unplanned ones, an oasis in the Sahara desert that constitutes your social life.

Whereas occasions like New Year’s Eve suffer from overhype and the pressure to spend £12 to enter your local, spontaneous evenings can often lodge themselves in your memory.

Going with the flow is underrated. Which is precisely why Manchester City’s epic 4-3 win over Tottenham in an FA Cup Fourth Round replay is one of the greatest games ever. Nobody saw it coming.

Back in February 2004, both Spurs and Manchester City were languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League and battling with decades-long existential ennui.

Spurs had sacked Glenn Hoddle in September, putting David Pleat in caretaker charge….