On this lovely pitch belonging to Musselburgh Athletic, the play from both sides was far removed from the traditional thumping the ball up the pitch image of Scottish football and it was Windsor that were the more impressive of these two good clubs, with organisation and coaching of the very highest standards to go with great individual ability. The one disappointing aspect of their game was their inability to 'kill off'' the opposition, particularly in the first half when Musselburgh Windsor dominated the proceedings.

All they had to show for their almost non-stop attacking moves were two goals, the first coming from Steven Harper in the 28th minute when Laurie Cannon - one of the best players on view in this game - cut to the byeline to the right of the Stewarton goal before cutting the ball across goal in to the path of his incoming team-mate and Harper made no mistake from a few yards out to make it 1-0. That goal was long overdue and Windsor had to wait until just before half-time to make it 2-0.

What a wonderful goal that was, too, with a glorious sweeping passing move bewildering the visiting defence and this exceptional move of passing and movement was finished brilliantly by skipper, Michael Lynch, to take the score to 2-0 for Windsor at the halfway stage.

To my surprise, Lawrie Cannon was replaced at the start of the second half under the rolling subs rule and I felt that this was a wee bit premature by the Windsor coaches. But the home side still looked to be more than capable of going on to win the game and the standard of passing and movement did not drop at all, although their goal threat was not so great. However, Ricky Hall almost made it 3-0 for Windsor and the visiting side struggled to test home keeper, Neil McArthur. Stewarton goalie, Kyle Good was the busiest player on the pitch and he was also very brave in going down at the feet of inrushing opponents to win the ball time after time.

The visiting side enjoyed a good spell as the second half progressed and their skipper, Jamie Carrodus, had a great chance to reduce the deficit when he got the break of the ball but he fired wildly over the bar with only the keeper to beat. It did just not happen for Stewarton in this game to the obvious disappointment of their extremely sporting coaching team on the sidelines. The pattern of the game continued, with the home outfit looking the more dangerous while Stewarton tried their best to break down the resolute Windsor defence - without any reward! It was almost inevitable to me that, when Lawrie Cannon came back on under the rolling subs rule that he would get the goal he deserved and it duly came near the end when he unleashed a tremendous shot in the crowded 18yd box to leave the Stewarton goalkeeper helpless.

That goal made it 3-0 for this cracking Musselburgh combine and it was Ricky Hall who brought down the curtain on a great individual and team display when he scored a quite fantastic solo effort to make the final scoreline 4-0.