Eric Kinder spoke to us about the dramatic FA Cup victory over Accrington Stanley:

"I am obviously delighted with the result.

With the Youth Cup competitions, the idea is just to get through. But we have got to look at the bigger picture with young players and I thought some of them did OK, and some of them let themselves down, and I think we are very fortunate to progress.

I think, and especially since I have been here, most of the youth team have played reserve team football on the main pitch, so it is nothing new to them. Looking at the side in this one, it's the first time that most of them have played on Brunton Park and they were nervous.

They know the tradition of the Youth Cup, they know you have got your Aldred's, Blake's, Tinnion's and Cook's winding them up all week saying what they did two years ago. I just think it got to us tonight and I didn't think that we performed at all. I thought we stuck at it, we showed a bit of resilience and we actually just got away with it.

I said at half-time that if we score first then they will pack in. I expected us to go on and get two or three once we scored. It was very similar to Saturday morning, Port Vale had a lot of the game on Saturday, Ryan (Bowman) gets us in front and they collapse. To be fair to Accrington they kept going and going and going. I thought we were fortunate at the end, we got a bit ragged and in the last ten minutes of the 90 minutes and I thought we were hanging on.

They were supposed to play Preston in the Alliance Cup on Saturday and that got called off, but we played on a really heavy pitch at Creighton. I said on Saturday, I don't know whether I am glad we played or we didn't, because we looked really tired at the end of the game, especially in extra-time.

But, to be fair, we kept playing. We struggled to get young Manny (Richardson) in the game, so when we put him back to midfield it suddenly looked like he had more time on the ball. He has given me another option now, because he looked a decent player in that role.

James Reid is honest, because he makes loads of mistakes. Mind you, they all do - they are sixteen and seventeen-year old lads, they make loads of mistakes. But the one thing about him, he is an honest lad and he keeps going. I think we have got an honest group this year.

I was disappointed a little bit with Ryan Bowman tonight because he let things affect him. Things didn't go his way, and that is what I have always said about him, he has got a slight problem where if that happens he tends to have a little bit of a sulk and it spoils his game. Hopefully we will knock that out of him over the next six months and we'll see where it takes him.

We kept going and, other than the goal, Jonny (Ball) made a fantastic save in the first minute of the game. It was a terrific save. I don't think he was really troubled that much. He had a little bit of a slip where they have hit the post in extra-time, but that was it.

But credit to Jonny, he is a very confident lad. His penalty save on Saturday at Creighton was magnificent, but I think he has saved three tonight and he has had the pleasure of winning it, 9-8. I have certainly never been involved in one of those before.

I think we are used to penalty shoot-outs now. I can't think of another way of settling it, we can't keep having replays and replays. So I don't mind them and I am lucky that I haven't lost one yet, so I am OK.

The main positive is that we kept going, we showed a great desire to stay in the game when people were going down with cramp. We had left-backs in left midfield and we had centre-forwards in central midfield, and we were a bit all over the place at the end due to injuries to Liam (Davison) and the illness to Mark Gillespie and Mark Sloan.

If left us a bit short, so the massive positive to take out of it is that we kept going and going. The stronger characters in the side kept us going and we have come out of it, but I must admit that we were quite fortunate.

We always practice penalties with the boys, but you can't recreate it. It is impossible to recreate a penalty shoot-out. They kept their nerve though and I thought, when they missed their first one, that we would win inside the five, because I was confident with the players we had. If you saw James Wood and Kieran (Cahill) take their penalties on the morning, then they were probably the two best of the five. They ended up being the lads who missed, so you just can't recreate it.

We will have to play better than that at York. I will put a lot down to nerves and the lads playing on Brunton Park for the first time. I have got to keep Cooky quiet now because it is him who winds everyone up telling them how good he was when we beat Manchester United. I keep telling the lads that I have got a video and I will show you exactly how good he was. He is a pain in the backside to be honest, but he is good to have around."

United - Ball, Wood, Richards-Everton, Cleary, Swinglehurst, Law, McKenna, Towler (Reid 90), Osmond (O'Brien 84 (Cahill 90)), Richardson, Bowman. Subs - Gillespie, Bonner.