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By Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Minor league Tamworth hardly need an incentive to write their name in FA Cup folklore against Premier League Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday but just in case they do, a local bar in the market town is offering beer for life for a match-winner.<\/p>\n

The Staffordshire side, nicknamed the Lambs, host eight-times FA Cup winners Tottenham on their astroturf pitch in a classic David v Goliath contest.<\/p>\n

While Tamworth boss Andy Peaks will be busy devising a tactical plan to stop the likes of Son Heung-min and Dejan Kulusevski, general manager of Pitchers Bar Jason Pegg is hoping the promise of endless pints can help cause a massive shock.<\/p>\n

“What better way to show our backing than with a little fun?” Pegg, who is offering the prize to any Tamworth player who scores a winning goal, told local media.<\/p>\n

“A winning goal means more than just a place in the record books — it’s the stuff of legends. We want to be part of that excitement, and what better way than offering free beer for life to the player who delivers the magic moment?<\/p>\n

“We know it’s a big ask, but anything is possible in football, and Tamworth FC has a history of surprises. We can’t wait to see who steps up to the plate.”<\/p>\n

Tamworth are 16th in the National League, which is the fifth tier of English soccer but have already beaten League One Huddersfield Town en route to the third round.<\/p>\n

In that game, Tommy Tonks scored directly from a throw-in and the midfielder will no doubt be flexing his muscles to launch more havoc-wreaking deliveries into the Tottenham area on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never actually measured how far I can throw the ball, I just launch it as far as I can,” Tonks said before the Huddersfield game. “I can see it in the faces of opposing defenders and goalies — they absolutely hate it.”<\/p>\n

Peaks, who quit his job as a support worker in a local college to coach Tamworth full-time, described the visit of Tottenham as massive for the town and said the North London club can expect a hostile atmosphere when they walk out for the tie that will be broadcast live.<\/p>\n

“The facilities won’t be what they are used to, there’s maybe one shower working and the toilet door hanging off its hinges,” he told BBC Radio 4 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reuters Minor league Tamworth hardly need an incentive to write their name in FA Cup folklore against Premier League Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday but just in case they do, a local bar in the market town is offering beer for life for a match-winner. The Staffordshire side, nicknamed the Lambs, host eight-times FA Cup winners Tottenham on their astroturf pitch in a classic David v Goliath contest. While Tamworth boss Andy Peaks will be busy devising a tactical plan to stop the likes of Son Heung-min and Dejan Kulusevski, general manager of Pitchers Bar Jason Pegg is hoping the promise of endless pints can help cause a massive shock. “What better way to show our backing than with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2450,2928,1459],"class_list":["post-79391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fa-cup","tag-tamworth","tag-tottenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}