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Liverpool and Everton have both provided non-league minnows Marine with help ahead of their historic FA Cup tie with Tottenham on Sunday.
There are 161 places between the Premier League club and their opponents who play in the eighth-tier of English football.
Liverpool, who beat Spurs in December, have provided Marine with video analysis while also offering the use of training facilities.
Everton also stepped in with last minute help to let them use their training ground ahead of Sunday’s 5pm kick off – with commentary live on talkSPORT.
“We are well prepped as we can be from a part-time perspective,” Marine manager Neil Young said. “I have done a lot of analysis with the help of Liverpool, who have given us some information in terms of the games. We have done a lot of analysis on them.
“All they have done is given us access to games that we can’t get access to. We see a lot of the Premier League games live but unless we record them we haven’t got the scouting networks or the software to go back and look at games.
“They have sent us the recordings of the games so we can do the analysis.
“We have had a few issues with the latest lockdown regarding training venues, our pitch where we were due to train yesterday had to be covered due to the frost and then leisure centres that we would normally use to train have been closed because of lockdown.
“We are very thankful that Everton stepped in to allow us to train last minute at their training ground at Finch Farm and Liverpool have stepped in to allow us to train there tomorrow.
“We are very grateful for that. From a part-time perspective it is a little bit of a nightmare with these Covid restrictions.”
Spurs will have to be prepared for a culture shock as they visit the Marine Travel Arena which just has two stands, with the remaining sides backing on to houses.
Mourinho’s side, used to the plush surroundings of their £1billion stadium, will get changed in the bar in the clubhouse, but will receive good hospitality.
“It’s a tight little ground, they’ll come in off the road,” Young added. “They’ll get changed in the bar area, obviously because of Covid restrictions.
“It’s three-sided, a very tight ground, houses on two sides, big stand behind one of the goals – it’s a proper non-league ground, it’s what most non-league grounds at our level are like.
“They won’t be getting changed in the dressing room, they’ll be getting changed in the bar area. We normally get changed in there.
“They still have to use the away dressing rooms to shower but in terms of changing they’ll have a fairly big bar area to change and we’ll be back in the smaller dressing room because there’s not as many of us.
“What they will get is great hospitality – everyone that comes to Marine goes away talking about how well looked after they were and Tottenham will have that same experience.”
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