Marine 4, Bradford Park Avenue 2: Bradford Park Avenue were dumped out of the FA Cup by Marine on Merseyside - but were again left wondering what might have been after allowing the home side to plunder easy goals and going down to ten men before the break.

Avenue club captain Mark Hancock had been on the pitch for only nine minutes, as a substitute for Martin James, when he raised his hands to Eddie Hussin and was immediately shown the red card.

All four of Marine's goals were down to defensive errors, the most glaring of which came from keeper Gavin Kelly who was drafted back into the side because of a hiccup in the signing of on loan keeper Craig Dootson.

Kelly had not been in combat for Avenue in over month and the ring rust showed as he made some errors. Kelly was beaten on the near post twice in three minutes as the tie slipped away from Avenue midway through the first half.

"We gave it to them by the way we defended and it was so disappointing," said assistant manager Ian Thompson. "Before they scored we were in control of the game and it looked to be going our way.

"The sending off has got to have made a difference but even with ten men we were creating good goal scoring opportunities but not putting them away.

"We had a good chance to go through but instead we are out and it's gone, forget it and concentrate on Emley at our place in the league on Wednesday."

The sending off of Hancock, an influential match-winning midfielder when fully fit, incensed the travelling Avenue fans. His 'victim' had earned the scorn of the Bradfordians for flattening heir hero Wael Nazha just six minutes earlier.

Hussin was given a yellow card for his 39th minute foul on Avenue's striker before the altercation with Hancock.

Marine's first real attack came in the 25th minute and brought them their opening goal. John Morgan turned in a low centre and Gary Randles squeezed a close-range shot between Kelly and his near post.

Just two minutes later Morgan went on another run down the left flank and this time finished it off himself with a well- struck angled drive.

Jason Maxwell pulled one back almost immediately when he headed home an Andy Hayward cross and home keeper Chris Clarke ensured his side reached the break still a goal to the good with a stunning save to deny Nazha.

With the home side on the backfoot despite their numerical advantage in the second half it seemed Avenue would soon equalise but Marine broke away to grab their third when Kelly missed an easy cross and Mike Douglas had a simple header.

More chances followed for Avenue but another blow was to follow, this time a solo effort from Morgan. In the last minute Phil Lindley threaded a pass through to Hayward and he fired a shot past Clarke.