If you happen to be a Tottenham Hotspur fan you support one of the elite clubs in the English game - at least if you measure that factor by the honours board.
Their haul of 17 trophies is bettered by only a handful of clubs and averages out to around one major success every eight years across their 138-year existence.
Yet there are a generation of fans who are entering adulthood who have never had the real joy of seeing the north London side lift any major silverware.
You would had to have been born not much later than the turn of the century to vividly remember the 2008 League Cup final, with Jonathan Woodgate's extra-time effort landing a 2-1 win over Chelsea for Juande Ramos's side at Wembley.
Since then there has been near misses with another two League Cup finals as well as last season's Champions League final defeat by Liverpool still painful reminders of the club's worst post-war trophy drought.
Off form Spurs are way off the pace in the Premier League, are rank outsiders to repeat another run to a Champions League final and were dumped out of the League Cup in a humiliating loss at Colchester United long ago.
As such the FA Cup is realistically the last competition they can win to prevent the trophy drought extending into 2021, and they will have serious hopes of lifting the cup for the first time since 1991.
Their first hurdle to try and end that long wait for cup glory? Of course it's their most recent Wembley hero Woodgate himself who will welcome his former club to the Riverside Stadium when the former defender's Middlesbrough side host Jose Mourinho's outfit in the third round on Sunday.
Injuries prevented Woodgate from establishing himself as a real favourite at White Hart Lane but he will always be fondly remembered for his contribution in the 2008 final which was only his fourth game for the club, having joined a month earlier.
His goal capped a strong Spurs performance that saw them against the odds come from behind to defeat Chelsea who had taken the lead through a Didier Drogba free-kick. Dimitar Berbatov's penalty brought Ramos's team level in the second half.
In extra-time, fortune struck for Spurs as Petr Cech's attempts to punch clear saw the ball bounce off Woodgate's face into the Chelsea net.
The battling qualities shown that afternoon are a stark contrast to the present day squad who seem to be limping from one disaster to the next in a torrid campaign.
Yet, Spurs were going through Premier League turmoil in that 2007-08 season too - having sacked a popular manager to make way for a highly rated Iberian appointment. Sound familiar?
While Ramos replaced Martin Jol, Mourinho has come in for Mauricio Pochettino who could never get Spurs over the line when it came to delivering trophies.
Mourinho's career is littered with major silverware - he has won three more trophies than Tottenham ever have - but can he end their long wait for success?
He has a better squad than Ramos did, whose Spurs team were six points worse off in the table in 2008 after 21 games than where they are now.
But Ramos's magic was in the League Cup, securing a famous 5-1 win over Arsenal in the semi-final before then seeing off another rival in Chelsea in the final. It was a rare moment in the club's recent history of coming out on top against England's best sides deep into a cup competition.
Spurs excelled in the Premier League under Pochettino but there was always a feeling that in the crunch games against rivals they suffered severe cases of an inferiority complex.
They offered nothing in front of goal in the Champions League loss by Liverpool, and were likewise meek in their other most recent final, going down 2-0 against Chelsea in the 2015 League Cup final - coincidentally managed by Mourinho.
Pochettino's side also failed in FA Cup semi-finals against the Blues and Manchester United in 2017 and 2018 respectively - taking their tally of consecutive semi-final defeats to seven, an FA Cup record.
Mourinho has won trophies at every club he has been with since his breakthrough tenure with Porto in the early 2000s but trying to turn a confidence shot Spurs side into a team of winners could be one of his toughest tasks yet.
A spineless capitulation to go down 1-0 at Southampton on New Year's Day offered little in the way of hope that the Portuguese boss could turn the club's fortunes around anytime soon.
Mourinho has only won the FA Cup once, in a 1-0 triumph over Manchester United in the inaugural final at the new Wembley in 2007 but holds the world's oldest cup competition in dear regard, claiming it is 'very, very special.'
He also claims to understand the supporters' love for a competition Spurs have won eight times in their history. It's a contrast to Pochettino's words while in charge in north London who claimed winning cups 'only builds egos'.
Right now an ego is what Spurs need as they look to shake off a tag as perennial chokers. They now have one of the best managers in the business to help build a winning mentality, but if he can't then who can?
Either way, a Wembley hero who helped Spurs to a dream cup win 12 years ago could now be in place to hand out a nightmare as his Middlesbrough side hope to take advantage of a Tottenham side in turmoil.