We’re as guilty of this as anyone else, having written about the Arsenal-Liverpool tilt first instead of noting — for a full day afterward — how Stoke City just absolutely thrashed Bolton 5-0 in the second FA Cup semi and will now face Man City in the final.

5-0 is NOT a scoreline we associate with Tony Pulis squads, period — his defenses are too good to get beaten that poorly and his offenses do not typically put up scores with numbers that high (in fact, Stoke have unfairly been derided as “Rory Delap long-throwing to someone heading it in the box” by many and “rugby tactics” by one Arsene Wenger.) Given a Bolton squad without Stu Holden and Daniel Sturridge cup-tied thanks to spending the first half with Chelsea, Stoke took full advantage of the mistakes Owen Coyle’s Wanderers served up on a silver platter.

There will be many of us on the Stoke bandwagon when they take on Man City at Wembley — it may not necessarily be high scoring, but I bet it won’t be boring.