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FA Cup to see Tottenham’s Gareth Bale and José Mourinho visit non-league Marine FC in ‘biggest mismatch in history’
A bar transformed into a makeshift changing room.
One tiny stand with fewer than 400 seats.
And just a brick wall separating the gardens of overlooking houses from the dugouts on the narrow touchline.
The home of Marine’s team of part-timers in the eighth division of English football will be a world away from the luxuries Tottenham’s millionaire players and manager José Mourinho are used to when they show up on Merseyside on Sunday (local time) for an FA Cup match.
“When I saw the draw come out,” Marine defender Josh Solomon-Davies said, “I did scream to myself.”
The north-west coastal town of Crosby will provide very humble surroundings for the biggest mismatch in the history of the FA Cup.
With 161 spots separating Tottenham from Marine…
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