Smith strikes for Cats

FA CUP specialist Tommy Smith struck again to fire First Division Sunderland into their first semi-final for 12 years.

Sunderland 1 Sheffield United 0

The 23-year-old striker, who dumped the Black Cats out of the competition in the fifth round last season with a twice-taken penalty and redeemed himself in the fifth round this year with an extra-time double in a replay at Birmingham, settled a tense tie with a superb 15th-minute effort to leave the Wearside faithful thinking back to 1973 and the possibility of an unlikely repeat.