But the goal that City's early domination deserved was only delayed a few more minutes. Liam Ireland dinked inside the box from the left wing and beat two defenders as he wormed his way in on goal. Clyde eventually got a tackle in but the ball broke free and Ireland was able to recover to fire a low shot under the Clyde goalkeeper from the centre of the penalty box.

Clyde were all at sea as Edinburgh City prompted attack after attack from midfield with Sean Stewart and Liam Ireland feeding their hungry strike force. The young Edinburgh side had quickly switched onto the dreadful Clyde offside tactic and were successfully getting in behind the defence time after time.

But in 21 minutes, against the run of play, Clyde got themselves back on level terms. The big Clyde centre forward was the scorer as he was allowed time to turn in the box and roll the ball into the far left hand side of the net.

Back came City and 2 minutes later they were awarded a penalty kick when a Clyde defender handled inside the 6 yard box. Liam Ireland stepped up to slot the ball away past the static goalkeeper.

As the game became increasingly noisy and aggressive, led by the Clyde touchline, the Cumbernauld side started to enjoy more territorial possession. And their centre forward almost pulled them level again when he beat City keeper Ruaridh Gill to a through ball only to hit his shot over the bar from a tight angle.

He had another chance on 27 minutes when he lofted a loose ball after a Clyde corner onto the top of the bar.

But just as Clyde looked like they might get themselves back into the game they conceded a second penalty kick. Ntando Ntshangase was sent down the right channel where he was brought down. There was some confusion as both players lay prone just inside the box but as the players recovered, referee Billy Connor pointed to the spot. It was clearly a foul but it looked just outside the box. Cue noisy protestations from the Clyde sidelines, but amid all the noise Liam Ireland calmly stepped up to knock the ball home for a terrific first half hat-trick.

Half Time 3-1

The half time teamtalk from Clyde was clearly designed to whip up some "anger" and "emotion" from the young players. And communicated to them in a loud enough way for it to be heard on the home side's touchline. To be honest there was too much noise, anger, aggression, long balls and offside trapping from Clyde when everyone at Craigmount must have expected more. The extensive coaching team also felt the need to consistently ball instructions to almost every player on the pitch rather than just letting the players play.

However, whatever their methods, it seemed to have some effect as Clyde pulled one back almost immediately from the restart. A long throw in from the left was allowed to bounce in the box rather than be attacked by a defender and a Clyde player stepped forward to slam the ball into the roof of the net.

The game was back on a knife-edge but Edinburgh City always looked dangerous on the attack and on 44 minutes they restored their 2 goal lead. It was another soft goal from the Clyde point of view as Ntando Ntshangase hit a fairly easy shot towards goal that the goalkeeper allowed to squirm under his body and into the net.

The young Clyde keeper showed his ability midway through the second half as we witnessed two terrific goalkeeping saves in a minute. First up was Edinburgh City's Ruaridh Gill who reacted brilliantly to a point blank flick from a Clyde corner. And then as City swept upfield the Clyde number one threw himself to his left to palm a fierce shot from Ntshangase around the left hand post.

Edinburgh City were in full control of this match as Clyde tried hard to find a way back into the game but found the home side's defence in no mood to give anything further away. Then on 59 minutes Edinburgh City secured their passage through into the quarter finals.

A through ball from Sean Stewart was a little too long this time for Ntshangase and defender Daniel Hart stepped into to pass the ball back to the goalkeeper. But as the ball bobbled its way back the Clyde number one allowed it to slip under his right foot studs and into the net.

It was an awful moment for the young lad but it was compounded by a quite terrible piece of man-management by the Clyde coaches as he was substituted immediately and was left on the bank to the side of the pitch, alone with his head in his hands.

Edinburgh City put more shine on the scoreline with four minutes to go when substitute, Ross Clarke, ran onto another great through ball to roll it coolly past the replacement keeper and into the bottom right hand corner.

Full Time 6-2

Much more was expected from Clyde and for whatever reason they just didn't deliver. Much of the play was tactical as opposed to footballing skill and ability with long punts forward and a defensive offside trap being at the centre of it. The coaching personnel marauded up and down the touchline barking orders which quite clearly were not having the desired impact on the young side.

Edinburgh City put on a fine display with their only frailty being a tendency towards indecision with high balls into the centre of the goalmouth. Liam Ireland had a fine game with an excellent first half hat-trick. The two full backs, Alan Kotyrbase and Declan MacIver always took the ball from their goalkeeper to set up attacks and in midfield Sean Stewart was eager to play clever balls forward at every opportunity. Ross Clarke could also have scored a hat-trick after he came on as a second half substitute. Laurie Bertoia also had a fine second half.