[Lord Snooty]

March 5:

First up, it's a happy birthday to our penalty saving/penalty scoring Wembley hero, Alex Smithies. Born on this date in 1990, he's 32 today. He'll be celebrating his birthday in that there London and let's hope he's proper celebrating with a win for Cardiff at QPR, one of his old clubs. He was the Hoops' Player of the Season back in 2016/17.

Here you go, Alex. Your career defining moment.

Back in 1938, we had an FA Cup quarter final played on this date. It was against York City of Division 3 North at Bootham Crescent and the crowd of 28,123 was a record for that ground at the time and still was when the Minstermen moved out last year.

They had already beaten 1st Division teams West Bromwich Albion and Middlesbrough and so must've fancied their chances against the Town. They had every right to as well, earning themselves a replay after a 0-0 draw. That replay will be back at ours on the 9th, a Wednesday afternoon.

Here's a picture of young Alf Ventriss trying to keep the excited young boys off the pitch.