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‘All they do is eat Marmite on toast and watch football – it can’t be healthy’ says keeper

THE secret recipe for Lincoln’s historic FA Cup upset against Burnley has been revealed – Marmite on toast.

The smell of it wafts around the Imps’ training ground on a daily basis, but that is the sign that a plan is being cooked up during hours of video research by Lincoln’s managerial duo of Danny and Nicky Cowley.

It led to Sean Raggett’s late winner that sank Premier League Burnley and secured a non-League side a place in the quarter-finals for the first time in 103 years.

“The way they live and the way they look at football can’t be healthy,” said Lincoln keeper Paul Farman. “All they do is eat toast and watch football. All they eat is Marmite on toast. That is all I see them doing.

“You can always smell toast when you walk past the office. It’s either one of them. There is only one word for them and that is workaholics. They are workaholics.”

Marmite is the spread that is either loved or hated, but you could only enjoy this FA Cup fairy-tale story when Raggett popped up in the 89th minute to head home and write his name in the history books alongside Hereford’s Ronnie Radford.

It is a goal that will be repeated every year from now on alongside Radford’s iconic strike that dumped Newcastle out of the 1972 competition.

But the man who scored it didn’t even know who the Hereford forward was!

This was no smash-and-grab win as Lincoln matched Burnley man for man all over the pitch for 90 minutes and it did not seem like 81 League places separated them in the football tier system.

“They are used to being the underdogs, so we felt psychologically that might be a problem for