For an hour last night North Village looked like they had forgotten how to play football, then Somerset Eagles scored and everything changed.

Having gone behind to a Damon Swan strike, Shaun Goater's side replied by scoring four times in the space of 25 second half minutes to dump Eagles out of the Dudley Eve, and leave the West End side to wonder what might have been.

The game should have been over by half time, Eagles should have been three goals up and crusing, but Shakir Smith missed two sitters, Tamauri Tucker missed a third and the two sides went in level after a first half that Eagles dominated utterly.

So bad where Village that the closest they came to anything remotely resembling an attacking move was when Devrae Tankard spotted Eagles goalkeeper Winslow Williams off his line and tried to chip him from the half-way line.

Eagles started the second half in much the same vein as they ended the first, until Swan finally made use of the acres of space the Village defence were allowing him inside the box, and rifled a shot past Jason Williams.

Given Village's response, maybe it's a good thing Eagles didn't score earlier. It took Goater's side less than a minute to draw level, when Thomas Watson smashed the ball past Winslow Williams from 18-yards out.

They'd scored another two, through Tauren Manders and Jason Lee before Eagles had really had time to recover from the equaliser.

When Rakeen DeShields was sent off for a reckless challenge on Lee moments after the third goal, any hope of a comeback disappeared with the Somerset defender as he headed back to the changing room.

All that was left was for Tyrell Burgess to produce an early candidate for goal of the season as he went airborne to unleash a visious volley that left Winslow Williams grapsing at thin air, sealing an emphatic win for Village.