CROSBY, England -- They had a glitter ball hanging from the ceiling of the away-team changing room at Marine. Technically, it was the stadium bar, which had been hastily transformed for the Tottenham Hotspur players ahead of their FA Cup third round tie against a team ranked 161 places below in English football, but if anything summed up the surreal surroundings for Jose Mourinho's team, it was the sense of walking into a disco as they prepared to fend off an upset against a team seven tiers below them in the English football pyramid.
- Report: Spurs end Marine's FA Cup dreams
In the end, the biggest day in tiny Marine's history ended with Spurs winning 5-0, but it was always going to take the football equivalent of scaling Everest in running shoes for the non-league team to leave Mourinho's team on the wrong end of an FA Cup humiliation.