WARRINGTON Town’s FA Cup opponents may be fighting to reach the Football League for the first time in more than 50 years, but they boast some experienced talent.

Gateshead have never featured in the Football League in their current form, but while representing the town as Gateshead AFC they enjoyed a 30-year stint before being voted out in 1960.

However, the promotion-hunters currently include a former European Cup winner, several internationals and a handful of ex-Premier League players among their staff.

Gary Mills is the Tynesiders’ boss. The 53-year-old became the youngest European Cup winner when he played in Brian Clough’s triumphant Nottingham Forest side of 1980.

He went on to make more than 200 appearances for Leicester City and has managed higher up the pyramid with York City and Notts County.

Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Darren Caskey is Mills’ player-assistant manager. Captaining England under 18s to European glory in 1993, Caskey also had notable spells for Reading and Notts County.

He is likely to remain in the dugout against the Yellows, but one man who could feature is former Everton midfielder John Oster.

Warrington’s travelling Toffees may remember the Wales international spending three years at Goodison Park after arriving for £1.5million. He joined Sunderland in 1999.

Gateshead have other North West links in former Manchester United trainee Ben Clark and ex-Bury man Andrai Jones, but it is Matty Pattison who is arguably their most high-profile player.

Pattison made his professional debut for Newcastle United in the Premier League in 2006, going on to win five caps for South Africa – including in this year’s Africa Cup of Nations tournament.

He and Oster are not the only internationals in the Conference outfit’s squad, though, as winger Alex Rodman represents England at Futsal.

Other notable inclusions are James Brown, famed by Soccer Saturday’s Jeff Stelling for his ‘I feel good’ celebrations at Hartlepool United, ex-Falkirk man Carl Finnegan and former Doncaster Rovers striker Lewis Guy.

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