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"I don't think we had much choice to be honest," he explained, "with the size of the game that we've got ahead of us." "Everything had to be done to get the game on. So as Jamie said, myself and a couple more guys have slept here last night."Explaining his plan to get some sleep in throughout the night, Ben said: "We left the clubhouse open, thinking we would just nip in every hour and get back in with the heaters on. "But that wasn't the case, we ended up having to throw some mats down on the grass and we just spelled each other over every hour. One of us maybe having an hour's sleep and then waking up, and then one of us would again go back to sleep." https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/1347834313283416065 But even then, it wasn't so straightforward. "We had a bit of a nightmare through the night, the generator packed in. So we lost four hours of heat. Believe it or not, the guy who fixes the generator had to come from Derby," he said with a chuckle. Ben's work paid off, and Chorley FC's dream lives on.
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