Air Miles Manchester League Premier Division: HIGHFIELD UTD...4 WILMSLOW ALB...0: HIGHFIELD'S 'four bore' blasted Wilmslow wide apart in their first home game for five weeks.

Badly needed remedial work had been carried out on the playing surface earlier in the week and to everyone's relief the pitch was deemed playable.

Albion probably wished there had been another torrential downpour to cause a postponement as the home side ripped into them from the start and could have been 2-0 ahead after only two minutes.

But Highfield didn't have to wait long to register their first goal when Lomax fired home from the penalty spot after Malius had been upended in the box by Karch.

O'Shaughnessy soon doubled the advantage with a fine 30-yard free kick after another infringement by Karch that earned the defender his marching orders.

The second half opened in similar vein with O'Shaughnessy and Lomax dominating midfield.

Stubbs bagged the third when he reacted quickly to a shot by substitute Derby which was parried by the keeper.

Albion were totally blown away on the day and this was typified by the fourth goal when a sweeping move involving Malius, Stubbs and Derby ended in Lomax rounding the keeper to roll the ball into an empy net.

Gladwish Land Sales Man of the Match: Brendan O'Shaughnessy.

Highfield's reserves were comprehensively defeated 9-1 by Dukinfield reserves.