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Liverpool keeper Jones hoping for FA Cup call

Liverpool goalkeeper Brad Jones is ready to step up for this weekend's FA Cup round.

Liverpool face Bournemouth on Saturday.

"For me, it's a case of training hard and making sure that I'm ready," he told Liverpoolfc.com. "In general, I treat each day before a game like I'm going to play, even though 99 per cent of the time I probably won't.

"I learned pretty early on that anything can happen. And it can happen to me. I've been called upon five minutes before kick-off; there have been lots of different things. There was the Blackburn game and then going into the semi-final at Wembley.

"I've realised that you've got to prepare all the time like you're going to start, so that if that surprise is sprung on you, you're as ready as you can be."

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