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Liverpool FC opened its training ground facility to their FA third-round opponents, Accrington Stanley DaveOCKOP can reveal.

Liverpool face the League Two side at Anfield on Saturday, with the game scheduled to kick off at 12.15pm GMT.

With Accrington Stanley’s pitch frozen all week, Liverpool offered their academy training ground facility to the League Two side ahead of this game.

Liverpool FC provided the use of its Academy indoor training centre today as the prepare for one of the biggest games in the club’s history.

Although Liverpool and Accrington Stanley share a lot of connections, this will be just the first time in 69 years the two clubs will be meeting in any competition.

The clubs have met only once before in any competition, in the FA Cup third round in January 1956.

Liverpool beat Accrington 2-0 at Anfield thanks to a Billy Liddell brace.

Understandably, the game at Anfield is already generating a lot of buzz among the Accrington Stanley players, as the club’s captain, Seamus Conneely, revealed in our exclusive interview.

Conneely also opened up on what the tie means to the Accrington fans: “It’s fantastic for the fans.

There was a chance the game was going to get called off for a frozen pitch but we still had 150 to 200 fans that travelled down from Accrington and it cost a lot of money.”

Apart from presenting Accrington players with a lifetime opportunity to compete with some of the best players in Europe and to play in the best atmosphere in England, the FA Cup tie also offers the League Two side a chance to earn a substantial financial windfall from the tie.

The coffers of the side hovering in the relegation zone above the football league is set to be boosted by £500,000.

The Accrington squad and staff are staying in Liverpool overnight ahead of the tie.

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