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********************* Tamworth 1 Stoke 1 (aet, Stoke win 5-4 on penalties) Non-league Tamworth came within 10 minutes of pulling off a major shock.... The Lambs, 21st in the Football Conference, and three leagues below Stoke City, scored through Nathan Jackson in the 42nd minute but Paul Gallagher snatched an equaliser in the 80th minute with a close-range overhead kick and it went to penalties. Plucky non-Leaguers Tamworth had led for most of the second half after the Jackson strike but Championship Stoke hit back 10 minutes from time.
The game went down to a penalty shoot-out and it was Stoke who prevailed 5-4 after goalkeeper Steve Simonsen saved spot-kicks from Eddie Anaclet and Michael Touhy. Tense Jackson's 42nd-minute strike had come against the run of play after Stoke dominated the first half but the Conference side battled well thereafter and caused their visitors some problems. Stoke had failed to make the most of their opportunities in the goalless draw in the side's first meeting; and again they lacked a killer touch, squandering a host of chances in the first half.
Dave Brammer twice got in early shots but first fired over and then found the hands of Bevan with another effort. Another chance came as Gallagher sent Kevin Harper clear but Mamady Sidibe could not make contact as the ball was drilled across the box.
A poor clearance from Steve Simonsen gave Tamworth their first opening but Jackson shot over after quickly played in by Carl Heggs. Play soon switched back to the other end and Gallagher should have done better when he headed over from a Harper cross.
Stoke gradually increased the tempo and Adie Smith earned a booking for bringing down Harper with a rash challenge.
Gallagher headed over again from a Brammer cross and Luke Chadwick was unlucky not to give the visitors the lead in the 41st minute when Bevan tipped his shot over. Stoke then paid for their profligacy as Bevan caught the resulting corner and launched the attack that led to Tamworth's goal.
The home side broke quickly and Heggs raced into the box, charged down Michael Duberry's attempted clearance then squared perfectly to 19-year-old Nathan Jackson who rolled in from close range. Stoke only had themselves to blame for trailing at the break. Second half The goal upset Stoke's rhythm and they mustered little in the early stages of the second half other than a long-range Brammer shot which Bevan dealt with easily. It was not until just before the hour mark that they managed to muster some serious pressure but Tamworth escaped as Smith blocked and Bevan punched clear in a goalmouth scramble.
Sidibe then hit the post with a shot from the edge of the box but chances remained few and far between for the Potters.
They laboured for long periods but the breakthrough finally came from a corner with 10 minutes remaining. Stoke were staring embarrassment in the face when teenage Irishman Adam Rooney - with his very first touch in senior football - headed goalwards from a corner to force Bevan into a save from which Gallagher scored with an overhead kick from close in. Both sides had chances to win it in the closing stages of normal time, Matthew Redmile going the closest for the hosts, but the game went into extra time. Extra time & penalties The pace dropped as both sides tired in the additional 30 minutes and there was little by means of goalmouth action. The non-leaguers then ventured into the dreaded penalty shoot-out as they attempted to pull off the finest victory in their 73-year history.
After each goalkeeper had saved once, Michael Touhy saw his effort saved in sudden death, and then Carl Hoefkens fired home the winner for relieved Stoke to end a tense FA Cup third round replay. But where was the manager? But Tamworth manager Mark Cooper did not know his FA Cup warriors had lost on penalties to Stoke - until his young son came crying to him!
Cooper could not bear to watch the dramatic penalty shoot-out at the end of the 1-1 draw and so shut himself away in a back room next to the dressing rooms. "I turned the TV off, got a beer out of the fridge and thought whatever will be will be," said Cooper. "My lad Charlie, who's seven, came to me in absolute bits so I knew we'd lost. I still don't know who missed the penalty, but I'm not bothered either. I was just bothered about putting on a show and I thought we did that by giving it a real go. But it's a cruel, cruel way to go out." Stoke City's assistant manager Jan De Koning said afterwards: "I've just told their manager he can be proud of his team. We are very relieved, especially as the team made it very difficult for themselves by not scoring one or two before half time." Stoke now host Walsall in the Fourth round. | 
