Former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira on Twitter:, external I'm sorry I can't be there but will be watching all the way from Senegal. Wishing you luck at Wembley today.

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It feels longer for Arsenal fans than most.

Synchronise your watches. It is eight years, 11 months, 25 days 19 hours, eight minutes and 45 seconds, external since Patrick Vieira got his paws on the FA Cup on 21 May 2005 to lift Arsenal's last piece of silverware.

And no, those three pre-season Emirates Cups in the meantime really don't count.

Hull, whose last pot was the Championship play-off trophy in 2008, stand in the way of the Gunners ending that drought.

A proper, old-school season finale in the Wembley sun awaits for the 133rd FA Cup.

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Lord Coe, Princess Anne and David Beckham were putting the final touches to a presentation to convince the world that London deserved to host the Olympics.

X Factor winner Steve Brookstein was top of the album charts with Heart and Soul.

Jawed Karim had just uploaded the very first video to You Tube. It was an 18-second effort explaining "the cool thing about elephants" was their "really really really long trunks"., external

21 May 2005 was a long time ago.