Football fans to join Liverpool FC & Everton FC stars for record-breaking five-a-side match

5aside recordFOOTBALL heroes from Merseyside's two Premier League clubs will unite to take part in the ultimate marathon football match.Everton's Leighton Baines and Liverpool's Jamie Carragher have agreed to be team managers and will pick two groups of supporters to go head-to-head to break the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous game of five-a-side football.The game will start on Saturday March 27 and competitors will try to smash the record by playing for 31 hours.The bid was officially launched yesterday at Cafe Sports England, in Stanley Street.Baines told the ECHO: 'I think it is a great idea. The lads at Everton told me what it was all about and I was quite keen to get involved.'It is a friendly competition. The most important thing is the charities which will benefit, but it will be competitive.'Carragher's 23 Foundation, The Everton Foundation and Radio City's Cash For Kids are set to benefit from the proceedings.Carragher added: 'We want to raise as much money as possible for the causes.'I have not been involved in anything like this before.

Source: Liverpool_Echo