Danny Murphy
Ex-Liverpool midfielder at Wembley on BBC One

"It's a big blow for Jason Puncheon. I think he should be playing, he knits their play together. It's a bit negative from Alan Pardew. The three midfielders in that Palace midfield doesn't suggest he's going to go for it."

Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha starts as Eagles boss Alan Pardew makes six changes from their last league game against Southampton last Sunday. Keeper Wayne Hennessey, centre-back Scott Dann, midfielder Yohan Cabaye, winger Yannick Bolasie and Connor Wickham are the others returning to the starting XI. Jason Puncheon and Dwight Gayle are two of the players who drop to the bench.

Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Souare, Jedinak, Cabaye, Zaha, McArthur, Bolasie, Wickham.

Manchester United beat Bournemouth on Tuesday after the bomb scare at Old Trafford on the last day of the season. Manager Louis van Gaal makes two changes from that game as defender Marcos Rojo and midfielder Marouane Fellaini replace Cameron Borthwick-Jackson and Jesse Lingard. There's no Memphis Depay in the entire matchday 18.

Man Utd XI: De Gea, Valencia, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Carrick, Mata, Fellaini, Rooney, Martial, Rashford. 

Mark Bright
Former Crystal Palace striker at Wembley on BBC One

"For us Crystal Palace players back then, losing that FA Cup final to Manchester United saw our world turned upside own. We went away on a Caribbean tour at the end of the season and it still took us three weeks to get over it.

"United are expected to win today. The pressure is on them. But it's 26 years since we played United and they will be back. For Palace, the wait to get here again might be a bit longer. Today I'm hoping the underdog comes out on top."

Well preserved sir.

£17.50 for an FA Cup final ticket!

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer at Wembley

"Traditional FA Cup final preparations here - The Band Of The Welsh Guards blasting out Queen's famous Wembley hymn "Fat Bottomed Girls". Not sure how that one has got on the playlist."

Kevin Day
Comedian and Crystal Palace fan on BBC Radio 5 live

"I think 90% of Britain want United to lose and 90% of the world want them to win. It’s not like the 2013 play-off final, where our financial future was riding on it. 

"There are no ramifications for not winning it. There’s more on it for West Ham, who would qualify for Europe if we win, than us. 

"Nine of United’s players would walk into our first team. Only Yohan Cabaye and Wilfried Zaha would get in front of their players. 

"Scott Dann is the most underrated player in the Premier League – he should have gone to the Euros."

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Danny Murphy
Ex-Liverpool midfielder at Wembley on BBC One

"Palace's players can handle the occasion. Today's a chance to put their names down in history and I expect a good performance. The advantage of having the semi-finals at Wembley too is that you come here for a match like this and know a little of what to expect." 

United 1990 cup final replay goalscoring hero Lee Martin:

"I didn't score too many goals in my career. I was fortunate to get a goal here - I think I was 60-1."

Who would the equivalent hero be today? Pape Souare? Marcos Rojo?

Andy Halliday has just battered in a cracking second goal for Rangers in the Scottish Cup final.

Follow the last 20 minutes or so from that game here.

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Plenty of 1990 chat swirling around Wembley of course.

Then Crystal Palace captain Geoff Thomas left the club for Wolves in 1993, but injury blighted the end of this career with short spells at Nottingham Forest, Barnsley, Notts County and Crewe preceding his retirement in 2002.

He was diagnosed with leukemia the following year, getting confirmation that he had the disease while he was sat in a traffic jam.

Since then he has raised millions of pounds to fund research into the disease. He rode the Tour de France route alongside disgraced former winner and fellow cancer survivor Lance Armstrong for charity in 2015. 

Assume this must be in Yorkshire somewhere then is it?..

The Palace players look to be making the most of the occasion with some selfies. 

Image source, Reuters

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Ian Wright, who twice scored for Palace in the 1990 final against United, tells Gabby Logan how his former team could cause problems for the Red Devils.

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Today is of course a repeat of the 1990 FA Cup final - the first final I watched on TV. It was a belting game too - and Ian Wright has just been reduced to tears on BBC One thinking about it...

Palace chairman Steve Parish speaking to BBC Sport: "I watched the 1990 final on TV. I went to the replay which wasn't a great game. Hopefully, we'll make history today. 

"The United manager Louis van Gaal is probably under a little pressure and hopefully there will be a different outcome to 26 years ago.

"The run to the final has not been easy."

Ruud Gullit
Ex-Chelsea manager at Wembley on BBC One

"As a kid I was watching the FA Cup final. The socks had little flags with numbers on and I thought that was cool. It's a special day."

Alan Shearer
Ex-England captain at Wembley with BBC One

"FA Cup victory wouldn't save United's season. Winning the cup would give them credibility. They haven't been able to attract the top class players to win big honours."

Crystal Palace

Well, whatever Wilfried Zaha was crying about, it wasn't an injury. He starts at Wembley.

Palace: Hennessey; Ward, Dann, Delaney, Souare; Zaha, Cabaye, McArthur, Jedinak, Bolasie; Wickham.   

Manchester United

Manchester United make two changes for the Cup final - Marouane Fellaini is back.

Man Utd: De Gea, Valencia, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Carrick, Fellaini, Mata, Rooney, Martial, Rashford  

Here are the Palace team, including attacking midfielders Wilfried Zaha and Jason Puncheon, walking on to the Wembley pitch.