AFC Totton 8, Bradford Park Avenue 1 Bradford Park Avenue’s glorious FA Cup run ended in ignominious defeat as they slumped to their worst ever defeat in the competition.

They ended their first-round tie in Hampshire with nine men as the floodgates opened.

Disaster struck early for the visitors as Richard Marshall was sent off following an off-the-ball spat in the 11th minute. He was dismissed for a push on Totton’s Tom Baddeley, an incident which the referee had a good view of.

Two minutes later, Jonathan Davies put the home side into the lead and, just before the half-hour mark, Amjad Iqbal fouled Bantams supporter Nath-aniel Sherborne in the area and Michael Gosney netted from the penalty spot.

Bradford were given hope when Adam Clayton made it 2-1 just a minute later. There were two attempts at the back post before Clayton slotted in.

It was only a brief respite though as Totton restored their two-goal cushion through Michael Charles two minutes later.

Any words Bradford boss John Deacey imparted during the interval were rendered useless when Gosney netted again for the home side, just seven minutes into the second half.

Half-chances for Avenue’s Jimmy Beadle and Jordan Deacey followed but the home side were in no mood to ease off and they went for the jugular.

Stefan Brown was introduced from the substitutes’ bench and he rattled in a hat-trick. He netted his first in the 65th minute and when Avenue defender Martin Drury was sent off following a second yellow-card off-ence, Brown added two more in quick succession.

To make it even worse for the visitors, Davies added his second, the home side’s eighth, four minutes into stoppage time.

Press officer Lewis Sale said: “As strange as it sounds, we did all right in the first half and, had we had a full team in the second half, we might have got back into the game.

“But it was more damage limitation with ten men and when we went down to nine it was painful to watch.

“It all went in the blink of an eye, it just flashed past really. Their people were reaching for the record books because they thought that Brown’s hat-trick was the fastest ever in the FA Cup by a substitute.

“I don’t know about that. I just know it was a long, long way home on the team bus with some very miserable faces.”

Avenue’s defeat surpassed their previous worst in the FA Cup, which was a 6-0 hammering at Birmingham City in the quarter-finals back in the 1945/46 season.