‘FREEZE SPURS OUT IN A TINY DRESSING ROOM’

you can get. It’s our job to make it as uncomfortable as we possibly can and not give them what they’re used to.

“That’s the whole point of a home tie, make it to your advantage – on the pitch, the changing rooms, the lot.”

Raven, 35, has been round the football block and believes tiny Marine (above) – from the eighth tier – need all the help they can get to unsettle Spurs for a shot at glory.

Tottenham are used to luxury all the way at their £1billion stadium and stateof-the-art dressing room, so homely Rossett Park will be a culture shock.

But not a big enough one for Raven.

“In normal times, there are two changing rooms, home and away, and they’re really little shoeboxes,” said the Wirral-born right-back.

“We’ve been using the bar area at the back to get changed because of the Covid situation, social distancing and not having fans in there. “So Spurs will have the away dressing room and overspill area in the bar.

“For some reason, our club have bent over backwards for them, allowing them to change in the bar as well because they’ve got that many staff and players.

“I don’t want to say too much, but that wouldn’t have been my decision. I completely disagree with it.

“We should make it as uncomfortable as possible. It is up to them how many staff they bring.

“My answer is bring less staff, get yourselves in the away changing room and deal with it.”

It has come full circle for Raven after a first-team Liverpool debut and man-ofthe-match display as a second string Rafa Benitez side beat Martin Jol’s Spurs on penalties in the 2004 League Cup quarter-final at White Hart Lane.

“It’s a highlight of my career, even 16 years later,” said Raven, who was reserve team captain at Anfield, but only figured in a handful of games under Benitez.

When he left for Carlisle in 2006, he took with him another cherished memory – riding on the open-top bus that took Liverpool’s Istanbul heroes round the city after their 2005 Champions League triumph.

Raven, now head coach at the football academy at Ellesmere College in Shropshire, hit the heights again with the winning, extra-time goal against Celtic that took Inverness Caledonian Thistle to the 2015 Scottish Cup Final.

Now another big moment beckons.

And he cannot wait for Mourinho’s arrival at Marine, even though the Special One’s popularity is hardly sky-high on Merseyside.

“I’ve always loved the guy, he’s brilliant,” added Raven.

“He’s entertaining, a character, good at his job and it will be great to see him on the touchline at Marine, a sight for sore eyes.

“We’ll need luck to stay in the game, people playing out of their skin above and beyond what they’ve ever done before.”

“But it’s doable.”