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Playing in the National League North, Macclesfield are part-time and defender Sam Heathcote is one of a number of players with a job outside football.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old has gone from battling with the likes of Brennan Johnson and Yeremy Pino on Saturday to returning to his day job as a PE teacher at Stamford Park Primary School in Altrincham on Monday.<\/p>\n
“Straight back to it this morning, back down to reality,” the centre-back told BBC Breakfast. “I’m looking forward to seeing the kids.<\/p>\n
“I was going round school last week saying ‘conceding anything less than 10 we will be happy with’ and they were all laughing.<\/p>\n
“Last time a couple of them watched it when we played in the second round against Slough and the first thing one of them said to me was ‘you gave away a penalty’. They might talk about my yellow card instead of us winning. A few of them will be excited, bless them, especially the older ones that are really getting into football.”<\/p>\n
Heathcote joined the Silkmen in the summer of 2023 and has combined his teaching job with training two days a week.<\/p>\n
He teaches children from the ages of three to 11 and hopes beating the Eagles can inspire his pupils.<\/p>\n
“It will show that you can be an underdog in any story, you can achieve whatever you want and things that seem completely impossible might just become a reality because that’s exactly what happened on Saturday,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I never thought I’d be in this position to come back in on a Monday having won that game. I still can’t get over it now, it’s amazing.<\/p>\n
“I’m so happy for everyone involved to create this bit of history. We will try and milk it for as long as we can, but I know what the gaffer’s like and we will be straight back to it tomorrow night.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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