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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akimwalere.

Arsenal and Manchester City are still in all four competitions

after reaching the last eight of the FA Cup.

So could we see one of these two sides complete the quadruple?

All right, in with us today.

We have Olly Kay.

We've also got Duncan, Alexander as well.

Olly, look, it's the first time in English football history.

We've got into March, and there are two sides still in all competitions, with the possibility of completing the quadruple.

Just how big a task is it ahead for both Arsenal and Manchester City?

It's clearly very difficult. I mean, you could say that Arsenal, for example, might be

favourites for all four of those competitions, but then you look at the probability of winning

all four. It's still very difficult. I'm sure the bookies odds will reflect that. Clearly,

the start of every season, there are odds offered on teams, you know, winning the lot, and

they're normally very long odds, and I would imagine in Arsenal's

case they've come down and down and down but it's still it's still a long shot I remember

when you know reporting on matches United in the sort of 2000s and early 2010s every year

we would ask Alex Ferguson now could could you could you could you win, could you, could you, could you, could you, could you,

could you, a realistic target? Or sometimes could Arsenal win a lot, could Chelsea win a lot? And his, his answer was always no. He always felt, you know, Manchester I did have won the treble in 1999, but he, he always felt it just, it required everything to fall into place and and it basically a clean

bill of health in the final weeks of the season so that you've got that squad strength and

able to rotate games from perhaps as it used to be an FA Cup final on a Saturday to a Champions

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