He's now part of the staff preparing the pitch for the FA Cup final "I was just doing my job," Ben Kay tells FIFA.com Ben Kay was lying on the ground at Chorley’s Victory Park at 4:00am on 9 January. It was minus-2 degrees. Wearing exactly what he came into work with the day before and covered with an M&M’s-designed fleece blanket, according to the man himself, he was simply doing his job. But he is selling himself short. As the head groundsman at semi-professional side Chorley, a club in the sixth tier of the English league pyramid, he, the club’s chief executive Terry Robinson and a couple of volunteers, including the kit man Dave Pennington, went above and beyond, staying up through the night to rotate small heaters to ensure the pitch was playable amid freezing conditions on the eve of the team’s FA Cup third round clash against Wayne Rooney’s Derby County.