Tamworth boss reveals BEER is the secret weapon behind incredible FA Cup run as The Lambs eye Tottenham scalp
Tamworth boss reveals BEER is the secret weapon behind incredible FA Cup run as The Lambs eye Tottenham scalp
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ANDY PEAKS will never forget his first match in charge of Tamworth. Instead of battling for points in a relegation dogfight, he was sinking PINTS with his Lambs squad after a trip to Leiston was postponed. But Tamworth’s boss believes that boozy afternoon session in Suffolk was the springboard for their incredible turnaround in recent years.
![[Boss Andy Peaks and keeper Jasbir Singh celebrate beating Burton]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jasbir-singh-tamworth-andy-peaks-962194879.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
After beating the drop in 2021-22, Peaks led the Staffordshire minnows from the Southern Premier League to the National League with stunning back-to-back title wins. Now, as the lowest-ranked team left in the FA Cup, the part-time manager is relishing a showdown with Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham on Sunday.
![[Sinking League One Burton has set up Tamworth's biggest ever game]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/players-tamworth-celebrate-haydn-hollis-953945218_feeede.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It is without doubt the biggest game in Tamworth’s 92-year history. Yet Peaks doubts they would have made it this far without that afternoon on the lash on his first full day in his new job. He revealed: “I’d just agreed to join Tamworth from Rushden & Diamonds and I took in our first training session on Thursday night.
![[Peaks says the Lambs will be 'horrible and nasty' against Spurs]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tamworth-manager-andy-peaks-celebrates-962195543.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
“I could see we had some good players but I sensed there was a divide in the squad and I thought, ‘I’m not having that’. “We turned up in Suffolk for my first game against Leiston and discovered the pitch was waterlogged and the game was called off.
FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS. “But Leiston had put on some food for us so I said to the lads, ‘Right, we’re going to have an hour in the bar and get to know each other’. "I had a gut feeling that the players never socialised together. One or two of them even said, ‘I’ve got to get home to the missus and the kids’.
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