How do you get over this? – Andy Peaks urges Tamworth to refocus after Spurs tie
How do you get over this? – Andy Peaks urges Tamworth to refocus after Spurs tie
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Tamworth boss Andy Peaks has backed his FA Cup heroes to quickly shift focus to the club’s bread and butter of National League football after a day to savour against Tottenham. The part-time outfit were able to take Spurs to extra-time in an extraordinary effort at the Lamb Ground before they succumbed to a 3-0 loss on Sunday.
Eight-time FA Cup winners Tottenham were made to sweat throughout a pulsating third-round tie in front of the TV cameras, but Peaks’ men have little time to dwell on their achievements. A Birmingham Senior Cup clash with Boldmere is up next on Tuesday before a critical fixture in Tamworth’s battle for league survival at home to second-bottom Boston on Saturday.
The 16th-placed Lambs currently hold a seven-point advantage over the National League relegation zone and Peaks knows his group will give everything to clinch safety as quickly as possible. “I want to stay up but I want to do it as soon as we can to be honest,” Peaks reflected.
“After this, next Saturday will be a massive game because how do you get over this? Well, not over it but how do you replicate it because we have to. “I believe I have a group of players that play like that whoever they are playing, whether it is a Sunday morning team or an international team because that is the only way we can play.
“Blood, thrust, organised, working hard, set-pieces, spirit and that is us in a nut shell.”. Tamworth navigated ties with Macclesfield, Huddersfield and Burton to set up the clash with Spurs, which almost produced one of the FA Cup’s greatest shocks after Thomas McGlinchey and Jordan Cullinane-Liburd squandered stoppage-time chances.
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