Bruno Guimaraes, Anthony Gordon, Lewis Hall and Dan Burn celebrate with Sandro Tonali against Brentford
Newcastle United head into battle for the final time this season against Everton on Sunday
On your marks Newcastle and Man City. Steady Chelsea, Villa, and Forest. Get set. GO.
It's a last-day dash for glory. Europe's Champions League lies at the end of the rainbow. The pot of gold. Which three will grab it? Which two will miss?
United must overcome Everton. Man City have a tricky one at Fulham. Villa at Man U. Forest and Chelsea will attempt to cut one another's throat. It might intrigue, titillate, the neutral but to those of us with a vested interest our finger nails are in grave danger.
Who will beat who and why? Will a draw be enough? Could it come down to goal difference? There are more questions than answers. However let us get the blinkers on. No one else matters to us bar United. Forget the rest. Get three points and the job is done. It's as simple and dangerous as that.
The fact old champions and beaten FA Cup finalists Man City won midweek to jump above United into third matters not a jot in the overall plot. We are still just one win away from the land of riches. An hour and a half of blood, swear and fears with hopefully no tears.
How much do you want it lads? You can have two pots - the Carabao Cup and a pot of gold.
Bruno, you can end up captaining one of United's most memorable seasons ever. Isak, play and score to add to your considerable baubles, League Cup medal and goals. Tonali finish with a flourish a season you were banned from joining at the start. Burn and Murphy, crown being boyhood fans who have achieved more than you dared ever dream of during the days of struggle. Livramento top off a season when you become a full England international by proving once again you are perfectly at home on the right or left of football's politics.
Everton will arrive hoping to be party-poopers just for the devilment. They have a Mackem in goal and an ex-Mackem boss, we have a Scouser who once wore the blue. And a manager who was an Everton supporter as a kid. More sub plots than an Agatha Christie whodunnit.
You may well ask how on earth Eddie Howe, a kid born in Amersham a market town in the Chiltern Hills 27 miles north west of central London was a supporter of the Toffees. He became a passionate Evertonian, it seems, growing up and watching them win the 1984 FA Cup final on television. He won't want to get the blues shortly after Sunday tea time! The past is the past.
The present is all that matters and so we are all one-eyed. Don't concede and score at least once is a format that would suffice. Ironically the work done in the middle third can significantly impact on both front and back. Shut the door at one end, open it at the other. Bruno and Sandro Tonali are the men who hold both keys. They are seasoned internationals with heavyweight countries. Made to be dictators.
However Eddie has selection decisions to make. It all depends on whether he goes with three central defenders again or flattens out the back, considerations which in turn could depend upon the relative fitness levels of Alexander Isak and Sven Botman.
If Howe reverts to a back four because the opposition don't warrant a five or because he wants to rest Botman's knee then Emil Krafth can play right-back and Lewis Miley or Joe Willock be the third midfielder. Everton don't require a belt and braces approach that Chelsea and Arsenal encouraged in the last two matches.
The conundrum, apart from Isak's injury, is Anthony Gordon. If we think Isak hasn't hit form since Wembley then Gordon has gone down the plughole for a variety of reasons after missing out on United's biggest day. He is far from loved by the Everton fans because of the way he left - indeed he is their hate figure as Jordan Pickford is for Geordies. That could, should, inspire him to put his old club to the buck and show them what they are missing but the suspicion is that he doesn't handle confrontations against them with a swagger.
Earlier this season you may recall Gordon missed a penalty at Goodison in a 0-0 draw shooting tamely at Pickford. He took the spot kick in the absence of Isak - an ominous warning - and could have won the three points later on but blew another opportunity. Did the occasion get to him?
All things considered Gordon could miss out to Jacob Murphy and Harvey Barnes in an orthodox formation. That is a big decision for Howe to make. Unless United's boss sticks with a five Anthony's best bet to start could even be as a false nine if Isak doesn't make it, heaven forbid. Though loyalty and the chance to say a final goodbye would probably sway the decision in Callum Wilson's favour. Current form would certainly not gain him the nod. He has looked a yard off the rest of the players in deed and thought.
Gordon is a player who feeds on confidence and needs a break. May he get it whenever he gets on the pitch.
It is inconceivable that a season which has brought Geordies their first meaningful trophy in many a decade and the promise of a return to the land of Europe's elite could finish on a downer in front of such faithful fans who swelled to a staggering 300,000 for the welcoming home party after Wembley.
No way can it be allowed to happen. We overcame PL champions Liverpool when we had to and claimed our biggest prize. Now let us overcome the cynics, the non-believers, the frowners, and the jealous as well as Everton to reach a season's climax amid calls for heroes to take a final curtain call of wall to wall appreciation.
UNITED WILL DO IT.