Inside the Lamb, they were thinking about giving the away dressing room a fresh lick of paint. Just to smarten the place up for their illustrious FA Cup visitors from Tottenham Hotspur and a live television broadcast.
Not that there is anything wrong with Tamworth’s home for the last 91 years. It has all the homespun charm and tidy intimacy you would expect of an upwardly mobile amateur club, but they have risen quickly to the fifth tier after back-to-back promotions and cannot boast the luxury to which Spurs are accustomed in the Premier League.