Eight years ago at Anfield, Andreas Weimann scored a terrific goal to help beat Liverpool and take Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
On Saturday, he struck the winner that sets up the first Blackburn-Wolves meeting in the competition since the 1960 final at Wembley.
The Austrian hit the only goal of his club’s third-round tie at Middlesbrough, then the draw paired Wolves with Championship opposition for the fourth time in five rounds going back to the derby win at Albion last winter.
And the striker isn’t the only one who is likely to be switched on by the thought of Vitor Pereira taking his side to Ewood Park early next month.
On the Rovers coaching staff as one of John Eustace’s assistants is Keith Downing, the boyhood Molineux fan who served Wolves as both a player and coach.
Weimann has scored six times in 2024-25 despite 12 of his 23 first-team appearances having come from the substitutes’ bench.
Before that, he spent over six years at Wolves’ weekend victims, Bristol City, and scored more than 50 goals for them whle also having a loan spell at Albion.
He is therefore one of the relatively few players to have represented Villa (the club he joined in his late teens), Wolves (on loan in 2016-17) and Albion, as well as, a little further afield, Derby.
It’s worth recording that Wolves’ goalkeeper on the day they won at Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool in January, 2017, was Harry Burgoyne, the lad from South Shropshire who manfully tried to resist the blue wave for as long as possible in Morecambe’s game at Chelsea at the weekend.
The first goal, in the opening minute, came from Richard Stearman, who was part of an outstanding team performance undermined only when Divock Origi pulled one back in the dying minutes.
On the bench – as he often was in his Wolves career – was Morgan Gibbs White, who, unlike Connor Ronan, Joe Mason and Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, was not sent on by Paul Lambert.
Surprisingly, Wolves and Blackburn have not met in any cup competition since Wolves’ 3-0 Wembley win over a side containing Derek Dougan 65 years ago.