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| The Lamb Ground, Tamworth |
Tamworth... 1 Barrow... 3
Saturday 8th September 2012
@ The Lamb Ground Tamworth Kick Off 15:00
It was a glorious day in Tamworth a bit of an Indian summer with a temperature of around 22 degrees and the sun beating down from a clear blue sky.
Both these teams played in mid week with Tamworth making the short journey to Mansfield and were on the end of a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the stags. They make a couple of changes to the team from Tuesday's game bringing in John Dempster for Tom Marshall and Peter Till replacing Charlie Collins in midfield. The Lambs are currently mid-table with ten points.
Barrow make one change to the team that drew with Grimsby in the week Robin Hulbert takes the place of Gary Hunter. The Bluebirds are currently third from bottom after a disappointing start to their campaign and are still looking for their first win of the season.
The game started brightly with Tamworth pressing forward as expected but failing to make their early pressure into an advantage as Jeffers had a couple of chances thwarted by Hurst the Barrow keeper. Then Cunnington broke through the Barrow defence laying the ball back to Till but his shot struck a defender making it easy for Hurst to collect yet again. Jeffers then won a corner which Till took but his cross was intercepted and Rowe raced up field with the ball and saw Barrow have their first meaningful attack which resulted in a corner. From the corner Joe Jackson found space and swept a curling shot with the inside of his left boot into Breedon's bottom right hand corner of the net.
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| Adam Cunnington Tamworth Man Of The Match |
1-1 at half time slightly flattered the men in light blue but it was the only way really Barrow were going to get anything from this game for as Tamworth came flying forward they were leaving themselves vulnerable to the counter attack. You would have thought they would have learned their lesson but 'NO', they continued pushing forward in the second half and you could see that they were pressing too high up the pitch. They had another warning in the 75th minute when a through ball beat the offside trap and left Adam Boyes clean through on goal but his shot was pushed wide by Breedon for a corner. Boyes was put through again four minutes later racing past the last defender and this time his shot from inside the box hit the back of the net leaving Tamworth with it all to do again.
Looking very tired and dejected the Lambs laid siege yet again on the Barrow goal but the result was the same as before as in the very last minute of the four added on Boyes found himself free again in the Tamworth six yard box and scored his second and Barrow's third goal of the afternoon.
Tamworth's the Lamb ground so named because there used to be a pub called the Lamb Inn situated near the ground car park. It has a main stand which runs up to the half way line and seats up to 426 people and at the castle end of the stand there is a club house which can be used by both sets of supporters, it also has the only toilets available in the ground. Opposite the main stand is a small covered terrace known as the shed which runs almost the full length of the pitch.
The castle end is where I watched the game, it is an open terrace mainly reserved for home support. The away supporters are situated behind the opposite goal in the Meadow Street End, it is partially covered at the back of the terrace. The pitch slopes down from the Meadow Street End to the Castle End.You can get food and soft drinks from stalls that are based outside the clubhouse, they sell all kinds of burgers, chips, pies, hot dogs and all quite reasonably priced
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