YORK City manager Gary Mills is comfortable with his side’s underdog status having been drawn against National League table-toppers Lincoln in the FA Trophy semi-finals.

The two-legged tie will be played out at Bootham Crescent on Tuesday, March 14 and Sincil Bank on Saturday, March 18 with Lincoln 7-5 favourites to win the competition and the Minstermen 7-1 outsiders.

But Mills remembers when his double-Wembley winning squad of 2012 upset the bookmakers by defeating Luton at the same stage and reasoned: “Nobody gave us a chance against Luton and the home leg was the first time I got booed at a football club for winning a game after it finished 1-0 to us when they were down to nine men.

“Then, when Luton went ahead at their place, everybody was writing us off, but Matty Blair popped up in the 90th minute to take us to Wembley, so let’s see what happens this time around.”

The first leg will take place just three days after Lincoln travel to the might Arsenal in the FA Cup quarter-finals but, with the Imps in the midst of a run of seven straight victories incorporating three different competitions, Mills doesn’t believe that will prove a distraction for Danny Cowley’s men.

“They’ve proven that doesn’t affect them whoever and whenever they’re playing,” Mills pointed out.