[서울신문] I lost but I felt like winning when I saw my bank account, England 8th team

Marine FC lose 5-0 to Tottenham in FA Cup
The highest revenue of 454 million won including ticket sales

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▲ Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min (right) and Brazilian midfielder Lucas Mora were thick in the third round of the English Football Association (FA) Cup match against Marine FC in the eighth division held at Rosette Park in Crosby in the northwest of England on the 11th (Korean time). He is sitting on a bench and cheering for a colleague while covering his body in a coat.
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English 8th division amateur team Marine FC lost in a dreamlike match against Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League (EPL), but it is a hot topic with the highest profits in history. Marine FC scored four goals in the first half of the 2020-21 Football Association (FA) Cup 3rd round (Round of 64) at the Marine Travel Arena in Merseyside Crosby in England on the 11th (Korean time) and collapsed 0-5. . However, on this day, winning or losing was not the only game.

The battle between the amateur team, which includes players playing’two-job’ such as plumbers and teachers, and the team fighting for the EPL championship, drew extraordinary attention from football fans even before the kickoff. Marine club introduced a’virtual ticket’ for £10 per ticket (15,000 won) when the crowd could not enter due to Corona 19. It was a virtual ticket that gave a name to the stadium wall, but it sold a whopping 36,97 copies. Not only Crosby, which has a population of 50,000, but also purchases from all over the world. Even Tottenham fans joined. The Marine Club, which has earned an all-time high of about £300,000 from ticket sales, is expected to reach £350,000 (500 million won), including TV broadcasting rights and fan fundraising.

Harry Kane was out of the list, Son Heung-min guarded the bench, etc. Tottenham’s top stars didn’t go around the ground, but Marine club fans watched the game like a belated Christmas present in the stadium and in the gardens and roofs of their houses.

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