It feels like English football has had an injection of life pumped into it. A break from the status quo. Unpredictable things replacing predictable ones.
Like Crystal Palace beating Manchester City to win the FA Cup. The first major trophy in the club's history. Or Newcastle beating Liverpool to win the League Cup, ending a wait lasting almost seven decades for a domestic prize. Even Liverpool winning the Premier League title this season was something few people predicted.
No-one in the blue half of Manchester will thank me for saying this, but City's astonishing collapse has been as good for the game as those triumphs of the clubs mentioned above. Make no mistake, City have been one of the greatest teams in the history of English football.
But the same one winning four league titles on the spin is as boring as it is brilliant. It's not good for football, because it crushes the jeopardy. It makes a mug of the competition.
And heading into the final week of the campaign, we could still witness one of the most bizarre scenarios of modern times. Which is either Manchester United or Tottenham finishing it with a trophy and place in the Champions League, and City with neither.
Joel Ward of Crystal Palace lifts the FA Cup trophy
Joel Ward of Crystal Palace lifts the FA Cup trophy (Image: Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)
How United and Tottenham have ended up in this week's Europa League final beggars belief, considering their respective league positions. It's bonkers and baffling in equal measure.
But it has set up a game in Bilbao that promises to have epic implications for both the winners and losers. And it now falls to United, of all people, to try and restore some civic pride to football's fallen city of Manchester. Who'd have thought it?
Palace, meanwhile, are 12th in the table but now in Europe. An achievement that will provide a significant boost to their finances.
And those who bang on about them being in the bottom half of the table and undeserving of a place in the Europa League should give their heads a wobble.
Winning a cup is hard to do. Just ask Tottenham fans. And the only way for competitions like the FA and League Cups to retain their prestige, is to have such rewards for winning them.
The loss was too much for Pep Guardiola to take. He charged onto the Wembley pitch to remonstrate with Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson, acting like Basil Fawlty.
Not a good look. Given the season he's had, you'd have thought the Spaniard would have learned how to lose by now.
But the drama was still a fascinating insight into how someone so used to winning, struggles to accept losing. This is what sport does sometimes.
Pep Guardiola and Dean Henderson had words after the FA Cup final was won by Crystal Palace
Pep Guardiola and Dean Henderson had words after the FA Cup final was won by Crystal Palace (Image: Getty Images)
Heaven knows how Guardiola might act if City lose at home to Bournemouth tonight (TUE), in what would be a potentially fatal blow to their hopes of securing a top five finish.
The domestic cup competitions have helped upset what we've all got used to, which has to be a good thing. These results have reminded all those who love football that we should continue to cherish our cup competitions.
Events of recent months have been refreshing and needed in the game. Whisper it, but English football has become interesting again.
So roll on next season.