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94 min: Spurs stepping it up with all those superstars now frontloaded into the team.
A voice from the crowd is heard. “Solanke, why are you so wanky?” Terrace wit endures at the Lamb.
92 min: AD gets in touch. “Ange isn’t good enough. Found out time and again. Whatever the final score, this has been appalling from the Tottenham. Almost Sherwood level bad.”
Sherwood level? Ouch? (I actually enjoyed Tim at Tottenham. Fun times.)
Back underway – and Heung min-Son is on
91 min: Three Tottenham changes: Son, Spence, Kulusevski on: off Dragusin, Maddison, Werner.
Maddison had rather been lost on the fringes of the competition.
Tom on Chris Wreh senior: “Christopher Wreh was an odd one. Most of the time he looked like he’d struggle to get into the Tamworth side (especially this one) but for a six week period in the spring of 1998 he filled in for Dennis Bergkamp and we barely noticed, helping us get over the line in both league and cup. Hoping his son enhances the Wreh legend today.”
I am corrected by the Guardian’s night editor, Richard Preston:
“Get with the times John – they’ve been Bromsgrove Sporting since the phoenix rose from the ashes in 2009!”
Aaron Bowater makes a most salient point: “As an Addick who suffered through being taken to a replay by the Cray Valley Papermills last year (and well played to them- it got decidedly hairy at points), when is somebody at the FA going to be held responsible for the vandalism of getting shot of replays? Tamworth have more than earned their night in North London.”
Extra-time calls!
And it’s Tottenham who were hanging on. Tamworth so very nearly scored. Jordan Cullinane-Liburd will have nightmare that he scuffed that volley. Oh my. The Magic of the Cup of Dreams!
90+6 min: Wreh wins a foul. The ball will be launched. Solanke slips and the chance opens up, and McGlinchey has a shot. From the corner, the chance falls to Tamworth. A simple volley into the hands of Kinsky. Oh no! That was the one. And that’s the end of the 90.
90+4 min: Extra time seems nailed on. Spurs don’t look interested enough.
90+3 min: The Tamworth fans sing: “no-one likes us.” Is this so? Hated by Telford, Kidderminster, Worcester City, Bromsgrove Rovers?
90+1 min: Who wants this more? Guts or glory? A miracle or shame?
90 min: Spurs appear incapable of putting an attack together. Werner is hesitant, and Wreh concedes a foul when Tamworth might have had an attack.
Six minutes have been added on.
88 min: Ange looks disgruntled, to say the least. His team have been poor.
86 min: Wreh makes an instant impact, and sends Williams away. Tamworth want this done in the 90.
84 min: Tamworth’s assistant boss is booked for dissent. This is getting heated. Off goes Tonks, and on comes Wreh, son of Christopher Wreh, Gunners legend.
81 min: Williams makes an early dart, but Bissouma squeezes him down. Dragusin pulls down Creaney, and Tonks is booked for asking for a booking. It would have been the Romanian’s second.
80 min: Tamworth now withdrawn into the traditional lines of Torres Vedras to try and reach extra time. Enoru is off, and on comes Williams for Tottenham.
79 min: Porro’s shot deflects back out, though finds no takers.
78 min: Tottenham push on, and in numbers. They don’t want extra time, with a midweek game coming up.
76 min: Porro booked for crashing into Enoru. Fair cop, too.
75 min: Ange is in the muttering to himself stage, especially as the ball bounces off Tonks and almost deflects in. Everyone living on their nerves right now.
73 min: Tottenham have made heavy weather of this. Munashe Sundire replacing Callum Cockerill-Mollett is Tamworth’s change so far.
71 min: The misses are beginning to stack up. Reguillon, across to Johnson, and he can’t get around it.
70 min: Kieren McKintosh gets in touch: “Wondering if, in a hospital in North London somewhere, Van de Ven is watching this on TV and shaking his head ruefully at how holey Tottenhams defence are being right now.
“Mind you, at least he’ll have a squad of his own with the injuries spurs have. They could ask for a replay, but Tamworth v Tottenham Injured doesn’t have the same ring to it.”
68 min: Ange rolls the dice: Solanke and Bergvall on, and off go Moore and Sarr.
67 min: Oh, what a chance for Tamworth! The corner comes in and Cullinane-Liburd heads down, and just wide. Did it come off Bissouma? It goes just wide.
66 min: Jeremy Boyce has invoked the ArchDrude: “Just walked back in from a nice weekend in the hills (south of France) and joined your MBM. Is the “Mayor” present? Of course I’m talking about pop-punk psychedelic genius Julian Cope of course, the unofficial/self appointed “Mayor of Tamworth”. I’m sure the ground is already bouncing, maybe some of this will help get their team over the line….”
Mrs Cope, she once told me on Twitter, is a Spurs fan, so who knows?
65 min: Timo Werner – set clear by Johnson – surely must score. But then again, he is Timo Werner and Jas Singh makes a fine sliding save, a painful one on 3g.
64 min: Tonks on the charge, but held off by Bissouma.
62 min: Ange looks nervous, and well he might. Him and his 14 extra staff members, all sat in a row, could be on the end of a Cup classic here. They’ve offered little beyond Mikey Moore, who’s started to be an influence.
60 min: Yellows for both Dragusin and Creaney for extended shoving. Kinsky eventually clears the ball.
59 min: A Tonks special causes all kinds of ructions in the Spurs box. The ball won’t quite drop for anything better than a half-chance. Dragusin meanwhile is down.
58 min: Paul Moody gets in touch: “Remembering the Hereford, Radford goal in the mud, and MUFC defeats in cup finals. Innocent times. Now in n.e. Brasil, 32 degrees. Warm. Hot.”
57 min: Tamworth attack. They are not just yet sitting back and hoping for penalties. This is a well-coached unit.
55 min: Tottenham have their best chance yet. Moore header is goalward but knocked off the line. It was Hollis again. What a game he’s having.
54 min: Olé! Hollis just pulled off a piece of Zidane-style skill in coming out of defence and shaking off two attackers. Like Laurent Blanc with a suedehead.
52 min: Porro goes down from a Creaney tackle. Was the Tamworth attacker anywhere near him?
50 min: Archie Gray sidles up from defence. Tamworth aren’t engaging much of a high press. More a high regress, sat back, asking Tottenham to supply some magic. And it’s not happening at all just yet.
48 min: Jas Singh, who became a father last night, has hurt himself making a save from Maddison. He takes a while to recover but looks OK to continue.
47 min: Ian Copestake: “If it keeps doing this well against Spurs and shows Liverpool how to do it this performance might go down in history as a Tamworth manifesto.”
John Wright: ”Artificial slope with real snow. Must be the slope that’s artificial, done with mirrors?”
Rob Farley: “As an Arsenal fan I’d love to see Chris Wreh come on and score the winner over Tottenham, after his dad got us to the FA Cup legend back in 1998.”
Padraig: “Tamworth have a zipper salesman in their line-up. Let’s hope Spurs don’t get caught with their flies open.”
Nigel: “Your “slaughtered by the lambs” comment reminds me of “Sheep” from Pink Floyd’s Animals. Poor Angie.”
Richard Hirst: “It should be no surprise that Tamworth are doing well; their name is clearly the product of running together and shortening the names of famously feisty US senator Tammy Duckworth. Maybe once they’ve seen off Spurs they should sort out Donald Trump?”
46 min: No changes. Just like Wembley, the corporates are slow to return to their seats.
Back out at the Lamb. Does it lie down on Broadway?
Half-time: Tamworth 0-0 Tottenham
Tamworth have done exactly what they wanted to do, barring create a threat. That can come later, to squeeze the margin for error for Tottenham, who have been poor, distracted and, if they are not too careful, might end up being slaughtered by the lambs.
45 min: Just a minute added. It’s been real, and too real for Tottenham. Porro forces a corner. He takes it himself but as soon as it’s cleared the half-time whistle sounds.
43 min: Ben Crompton has done well as full-back. Tamworth, as a unit, have been excellent. If they can their one chance, then who knows?
41 min: Porro concedes a throw. And we now know what that means. Hollis at the back post is the target and might have done better. Spurs look panicked by this not-so secret weapon.
39 min: Dragusin and Kinsky get in a mess, and the goalie has to hack clear. He’s had a couple of shaky moments, mostly not of his own doing.
37 min: Tamworth have been robust and organised. A few reducers going in, and with no VAR, it’s a gamble worth taking. Tottenham have played far worse than they did against Liverpool in midweek.
35 min: Tamworth corner. Pushing and shoving in the Spurs box. Kinsky looks safe as he collects the ball.
33 min: Maddison takes a cruncher from McGlinchey but Spurs keep the ball. Johnson sets Porro on the overlap but the ball zips off out, and possibly near the ley lines for which Tamworth is known.
32 min: Nice skill from Maddison, cutting beyond Milnes and Singh makes a decent save. Sarr then forces another corner.