Published on: Saturday, January 09, 2021
By: AFP
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Marine are only the second team from the eighth tier to reach this point of the competition and their next attempt to defy the odds in the cup will be against Jose Mourinho’s Spurs. (Getty Images)
LONDON: English football minnows Marine FC are preparing to host mighty Tottenham on Sunday in what will be the biggest mismatch in FA Cup history.
Paul Leary, chairman of the eighth-tier club, says he is the most excited non-league chairman in the country ahead of the glamorous fixture against the eight-time winners.
There has never been such a wide disparity in league positions between two teams at the third-round stage the competition, when the big teams enter the fray.