Road to Wembley - The Lambs

Tamworth FC are our N&R Road to Wembley starlets this weekend. Nicknamed the Lambs, let's hope they are not slaughtered like one at Goodison Park tomorrow, where over 5,000 Tamworth fans will make the journey.

Here are 10 things that you never knew about Tamworth FC:

1) They were formed in 1933 and moved to the Lamb Ground (photo) a year later, where they still play.
2) The Lamb Ground was named after "The Lamb Inn", which stood for many years at the entrance to what is now the ground's car park. The first known use of the site was as a pig farm at the turn of the 19th century. The ground now holds 4,195 people.
3) Arsenal and Ladbrokes legend Paul Merson played two games for Tamworth in 2006 before he retired from the game.
4) Other famous-ish ex-players include Paul Devlin, Gerry Taggert and boing boing Bobby Taylor of WBA fame.
5) The Lambs play in an all red kit and the club crest features a Stafford knot, the symbol of Staffordshire.
6) Current manager is Marcus Law, who previously managed cash starved Kettering.
7) Ex Jamaican international Paul Hall is Law's assistant.
8) Club sponsors are SnowDome, which is an indoor ski slope in Tamworth, the first full sized recreational indoor ski slope in the UK! Yes I am struggling to get 10.
9) The Lambs have twice been to the FA Cup 3rd Rd and thinking of tokmorrow's potential scoreline, the Lambs biggest ever defeat was 11-0 in 1940.
10) Tamworth striker Kyle Patterson once counted Everton’s Landon Donovan as a team-mate at LA Galaxy, even providing an assist for the USA star on his debut for the MLS outfit.

Good luck to Tamworth tomorrow and look out for their result at 5 o'clock.