It's 10 April 1994 and Manchester United's hopes of landing the club's first Double are on the brink of collapsing.
Oldham Athletic have been a very useful side under Joe Royle and are enjoying their day out at Wembley. Four years earlier, at the same semi-final stage of the FA Cup, they had shared six goals with the Reds before succumbing to Mark Robins's winner deep into extra time in the replay at Maine Road.
It was a pivotal moment as Sir Alex Ferguson would go on to lift his first trophy at the club, by overcoming Crystal Palace, and this propelled us to new heights in the years that followed. With the inaugural Premier League in the bag, United were looking good to retain the title and create club history by landing both of English football's top prizes in the same campaign.
Oldham had other ideas, probably feeling some revenge was due, and Neil Pointon's 106th-minute goal looked to be achieving that aim. Until, with around a minute to goal, Mark Hughes unleashed one of his trademark volleys that flew past Jon Hallworth and altered the course of history.
Mark Hughes breaks Oldham's hearts at the death in 1994.
It is hard to come up with too many more seismic sliding-doors moments than that one.
Oldham were seconds away from a first FA Cup final and struggled to recover from that almighty setback. The replay, again at Maine Road, was a much more comfortable affair for Ferguson's side with former Latics defender Denis Irwin scoring a ninth-minute opener. Although Pointon, never a prolific scorer, revived hopes for Royle's men by making it 2-1 before half-time, we ran out convincing 4-1 winners and trounced Chelsea 4-0 in the final to complete our first Double.
Two years later, we did the Double again. Three years further on and we would do something unprecedented and scoop both trophies and the European Cup.
While United, under Ferguson, would surely have recovered from any damaging, and shock, loss to Oldham in 1994 - as we did when ending up potless in the final weeks of the season in 1995 - it may have been seen to temporarily put the brakes on the juggernaut we would become.
For Oldham, the effects are obvious. The 1994 semi-final replay is the last time the senior sides have met at competitive level.
The Lancashire outfit had celebrated victory over the Reds in 1993, at Boundary Park, and were real competitors in the early Premier League but their form slumped on the back of the last-four exit.
They did not win another game and were relegated when failing to beat Norwich City on the final day, instead drawing 1-1.
If Royle had his side punching above their weight, the fall after he left in the November to join Everton, steering the Toffees to the 1995 FA Cup final victory over the Reds to at least gain some personal revenge, was alarming.
A 14th-placed finish in the second tier hinted at further struggles to come. In 1996/97, the Latics were relegated again after finishing second-bottom in the table.
Stabilising in Division Two/League One for some time, they were eventually demoted in 2017/18 and fell out of the league altogether in 2021/22.
It would be wrong to pin all of the blame on this on Hughes but there will be many Reds looking forward to meeting the local side again on Wednesday night. When the National League Cup games were drawn this certainly stood out for many and it will be great to see Travis Binnion's youngsters turn out at Boundary Park.
It would be great to see Oldham climb the pyramid again and get back into the league, they are fifth in the table at the moment, but, in the meantime, this fixture, live on MUTV, will at least bring back memories for some.