Dust down Jimmy Melia's white dancing shoes, close your eyes and, 40 years on, Gordon Smith still must score... and he doesn't.
Brighton are 90 minutes from only their second FA Cup final after living up to Eric Cantona's famous twaddle about Seagulls following the Mariners' trawler because they expect easy pickings. King Eric knew his sardines from his mackerel and, as expected, Roberto De Zerbi's stylish, swashbuckling Albion were simply too good for Grimsby, the first team from League Two to reach the quarter-finals since Cambridge in 1990.
Let's hear it for Paul Hurst's brave, blustering Mariners, who entered the cup as minnows and leave it as whales. The dream of Grimsby playing in Europe, and landing an exotic tie with their Croatian 'sister' club Haddock Split, will have to wait for another day.
