Emley 1 Leigh RMI 4 by Martyn Hindley: LEIGH RMI hammered Unibond Premier League side Emley with a superb exhibition of passing football that saw them through to a last 32 FA Trophy clash with Margate at Hartsdown Park on February 2.

RMI were criticised for their woeful finishing in Saturday's original fixture but their three-pronged strike attack of Tony Black, Dino Maamria and Michael Twiss laid that ghost to rest with a performance that ran the Yorkshiremen ragged at Wakefield's Belle Vue Stadium.

Leigh opened the scoring after 20 minutes through Twiss and never looked back as they thoroughly commanded this cup tie.

The Railwaymen are gradually finding their feet in the final third having scored six goals in their previous two games and they even had time to miss a penalty shortly before half time. Centre half Nicky Wood petulantly pushed Dino Maamria off-the-ball and referee Foster had no option but to award the spot kick. Cuss spared Wood's blushes with a fine save low to his right and limit Leigh's advantage to one goal by the interval.

That advantage was soon extended after the break as Maamria was on hand to poke the simplest of goals into the unguarded net after Twiss's shot had cannoned off the goalkeeper and into his path. Fourteen minutes later and the goalkeeper was again unfortunate when he got part of his body on Black's effort when the striker was through on goal, but could not keep the ball out.

The game was over as a contest but with little over a quarter of an hour remaining, Emley substitute Simeon Bambrook neatly volleyed a Gary Hatto cross past Mark Westhead but at the other end, Leigh replacement Marcus Hallows rounded off the scoring with an exquisite shot from the right flank that drifted over Cuss and into the top corner.