Canterbury City manager Ben Smith said Sunday's brilliant FA Vase quarter-final win over Biggleswade completed a perfect weekend.

City's 2-1 victory at Salters Lane came just a day after Smith's newborn daughter Ciel had been allowed to come home for the first time.

Smith's wife Carmen had given birth at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital Margate on the Monday, since when the infant had been in intensive care.

The City boss, who also has a five-year-old son Brandon, said: "I'm ecstatic that we've done it. Since the last round all anybody has spoken to me about has been the Vase

"To get there and still be in it, in March, is crazy.

"My daughter's been in intensive care for five days. She came out on Saturday, I've got a five-year-old boy as well, so it's literally been to-ing and fro-ing from the hospital, obviously making sure the baby's all right.

"There's been the stress of that but she's really well. She was at home last night, her first night at home and now this – what a weekend."

Smith admitted his side were lucky to be level against Biggleswade at half-time, but felt the tide started to turn in City's favour just before Chris Saunders' spectacular equaliser.

Saunders then set Dean Grant up for the winner in the opening seconds of the second half. Biggleswade, second in the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division, had taken a seventh minute lead through Tom Cookman.

Smith explained: "We knew they were going to be a good side, and if we tried to match them for purest football we would have got beat by a few so it was a case of can we make it horrible.

"But for the first 25 minutes we made it so nice and easy for them, it was frustrating the hell out of me.

"They started at a really intense pace and you're thinking 'It's going to be along 90 minutes', but we hung in there.

"The key thing was that they did not score the second, if they had it would have been a comfortable day for them,

"There was no screaming or shouting at half-time, it was more a case of you're letting yourselves down at the minute, you're not doing what we've asked you to.

"I told them if we put another 45 in like we did in the first half then we'll be hearing them celebrating in the next dressing room.

"We got our midfield shape sorted, we were giving them too much space, we had a slight tweak in there and our second goal came from them trying to play out, and us robbing the ball.

"We had something to defend so we could sit in a little bit more and catch them on the counter.

"For all the possession they had I thought our defensive shape was good. There weren't too many opportunities when you're thinking they've got to score here."

Smith admitted his emotions may have got the better of him at the final whistle.

He added: "I was throwing up on the touchline. Literally as the final whistle blew, everyone's jumped on me and I was being sick, it was pure emotion.

"People don't realise, but us the management team, do an awful lot at this football club. I'm the kit man, I do a lot more than just rocking up and doing the management and I've done it for a long time.

"Its not the most glamorous job in the world, it should be because we're a city, and hopefully we're doing our best to make it a glamorous job and days like today have added to that."

The draw for the semi-finals will be made at 12.15pm on Monday – see www.kentonline.co.uk/sport for full details.

City are joined in the hat by league rivals Cray Valley, Chertsey and Northwich Victoria.