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The lads are pleased and so they should be. We give everything, we fight for every ball over the pitch, and we showed that," Parkinson said.

We've taken on a team that has probably spent about a billion pounds over the last two transfer windows. We've gone toe-to-toe with them," he said.

That's a hell of a shift the lads have put in today, and obviously I'm very pleased. The gulf in quality... two years ago we were in the National League, we're building slowly but surely as a club."

There were some really good performances from us. They made 10 changes at half-time and we stood strong in that period, and our subs gave us some impetus ourselves."

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