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Notts County fans raised more than £2,400 for the club’s unpaid staff as the community rallied in support of the crisis-hit Magpies .

The club’s official supporters’ association collected donations outside the ground, while those fans entering through the designated Notts turnstile saw their cash also go to the cause.

In total, £2,483 was raised with £1,485 of that coming from the fans who entered through the turnstiles, although the attendance figure was not announced. The rest of the cash was made up by the NCFCOSA rattling buckets outside the stadium.

The money is now set to be split among Notts’ rank and file staff who are still awaiting their June salaries after they went unpaid as a result of the financial crisis at Meadow Lane.

It is understood the idea to raise funds for the staff via the turnstiles did not come from Alan Hardy, but the players and key members of staff, who are uniting in the face of huge difficulties.

Hardy, who also owns Ilkeston, did not attend the game which Notts won 5-0 to secure their second successive pre-season victory.

Despite the players being unpaid, they put on a hugely professional performance to clinch the win helped by a hat-trick by former Nottingham Forest striker Nathan Tyson.

Tyson, released by Wycombe, was one of five players on trial for Notts who also gave games to former Chesterfield winger Kyel Reid, ex-Port Vale defender Remi Streete and former Coventry pair, Dion Kelly-Evans and Chris Camwell.

Kristian Dennis and Enzio Boldewijn were the other goalscorers. It rounded off a troubled week for Notts in positive fashion after they avoided being wound up by a High Court judge over an unpaid tax bill last Wednesday.

Judge Clive Jones gave the club another three weeks in which to allow a Danish consortium to buy the financially-stricken Magpies.