Football authorities have Leeds United 'contingency' in place for bittersweet 200/1 scenario

Those are the odds on Daniel Farke's men reaching both the FA Cup final and Championship play-off final this season - games that are scheduled to take place on consecutive days. Saturday May 25 is the Wembley date for this season's FA Cup final, while the play-off final is due to take place the very next day at the same venue.

Leeds' FA Cup involvement has taken them as far as the fifth round and on Wednesday night they will take on the role of the underdogs with a visit to Premier League side Chelsea. Though Leeds last played on Friday night and take a 12-game unbeaten streak to Stamford Bridge, and though the Blues will still be smarting, both physically and mentally, from Sunday's extra-time Carabao Cup final defeat by Liverpool, the hosts will still be heavy favourites on account of the quality in Mauricio Pochettino's squad. Getting past Chelsea, never mind getting to the cup final, will be a gargantuan task for the second tier outfit. EFL clubs made up half of last season's quarter-finalists, however, and Sheffield United went one better to reach the semis, so further progress is not unthinkable for Leeds.

And then there's the game that Leeds want no part of. Friday night's win over league-leading Leicester City kept Leeds in second place in the Championship and narrowed the gap to first place to six. The 3-1 victory, a ninth-stright league win, reintroduced the idea of a title race. Ipswich Town, in third, also sit on 72 points like Leeds but have a vastly inferior goal difference. But with the Tractor Boys and Southampton, five points back, still so dead-set on going up automatically, the race to finish in the top two is expected to take more twists and turns.

And what if Leeds were able to pull off a minor miracle and reach the FA Cup final, while simultaneously slipping out of the automatic promotion places and subsequently making it to the play-off final? The idea of playing two such monumental and consequential games in two days is obviously untenable. The FA are not yet willing to comment on the scenario, and the EFL have told the YEP that there is a contingency in place for such an eventuality, but they're not yet willing to confirm exactly what that is. That should put minds at ease, however, that should Whites lightning strike twice at Wembley this season it will not happen on consecutive days.