As Tamworth prepares to take on Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur in the third round of the FA Cup, the gulf in the football lifestyle could not be greater.
On one side are millionaire internationals; on the other hand, part-timers juggle football with day jobs such as bricklaying, zip-selling and financial advice.
Yet this team of non-league grafters believe they can deliver a major shock to Spurs – whose squad is valued at a whopping £667 million, with club captain Son Heung-min earning around £190,000 a week – when they meet on Sunday afternoon .
Here, Mail Sport profiles the players and the hard-working gaffer, who aims to send shockwaves through football's oldest competition.
Andy Peaks: Tamworth manager/teaching assistant
For Tamworth leader Andy Peaks, combining work and football is a way of life.
During the day he supports students with learning difficulties at a university in Kettering. By night he is the mastermind behind Tamworth's cup heroics, which recently saw them eliminate Hartlepool United in a nail-biting penalty shootout.
He got home at 2:30 that evening and had little time to enjoy the result as he was back in the classroom at 8:30 the next morning – as usual.
That said, the Tamworth boss is happy to forgo sleep if it means his side progress in the league and can play against teams like Tottenham. He notes that the stakes are even higher for him as he has family ties to Spurs.
His father-in-law is a Spurs-mad football fan who goes by the name Tottenham Dave, while his stepdaughter is also an avid follower of the north London club.
Jasbir Singh: Goalkeeper / Building Meter
Shot stopper Jasbir Singh, the penalty shootout hero at Hartlepool, is a building inspector.
Last season he set a club record with nine consecutive clean sheets and says he is often criticized by fans who think he looks like Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
“You hear all kinds of things,” Singh told Mail Sport. 'The individual voices surprise you. The best part was that I was the absolute spitfire of Rishi Sunak.
'I started getting that a lot when he was Prime Minister. I'm a lot bigger. And I don't have the same money.'
Ben Milnes: Tamworth Captain / Financial Advisor
Tamworth captain Ben Milnes, who once came through the Leicester City academy with Jeff Schlupp, now works as a financial adviser.
The facilities Tamworth offers are a far cry from what Milnes was treated to as a youngster at the Foxes.
The home and away changing rooms at Tamworth's ground, The Lamb, have no central heating, only a small heater, while there is a serious lack of showers available.
“I'm guessing only a few showers will work in the away dressing room because only a few work in the home dressing room,” Milnes joked.
'Days like these are the reward. We may not get such an opportunity again. We have to make the best of it and enjoy it.'
Callum Cockerill-Mollett: defender / zip seller
Cockerill-Mollett, a zipper salesman, embodies the down-to-earth ethos of this team.
Speaking to The Sun about his unconventional path, Cockerill-Mollett said: 'In my last season at Walsall there was a huge turnover of players and anyone out of contract was allowed to leave.
'I had some interest from other full-time clubs, but most of them would require a move to the other side of the country. When nothing concrete came of it, I decided to work part-time.
“So that summer I moved in with my dad Neil and started working full time at his zip business. I had spent some time in the factory while I was playing, so I had a rough idea of what the company was about.
“Footballers retire early and I knew I wasn't going to go down the coaching route, so I always had the zip business in the back of my mind. Now I help my father run the business.'
He ended by saying: 'You can't come in and buy one or two zippers from us, we deal in hundreds or thousands at a time. Jacket zippers, pocket zippers, shoe zippers, jeans zippers: you name it, we can produce it.'
Haydn Hollis: defender / Academy coach
Of Tamworth's plucky squad, Hollis enjoyed arguably the strongest football career, having played for a number of professional clubs, starting with Notts County, before dropping down to non-league level.
During his time at County, Hollis once marked Chelsea legend Didier Drogba during a friendly against Galatasaray. The defender will once again face world-class opposition on Sunday as he tries to break his team's backline.
While training with his teammates, Hollis also coaches and is currently Chesterfield's U18 coach.
Tom Tops: Midfielder / Sandwich Entrepreneur
Tamworth has a few tricks up its sleeve to shock Spurs, and midfielder Tom Tonks may have the biggest weapon in Peak's arsenal.
Tonks, a businessman who owns a sandwich shop in Bilston, also has an astonishing long throw that causes all kinds of problems for defenses.
The long-running joke among the Tamworth playing group is that the midfielder was simply signed so they no longer had to deal with the powerful throw-in.
“It's a weapon and we would be stupid not to use it,” goalkeeper Singh said.
“Whoever is in goal for them, I'm not sure it's something they've had to deal with.
“I see goalkeepers coming here and warming up, trying to emulate it, but it's just not the same with the trajectory of the ball and all the bodies around you, it's really crazy.”
When he's not launching missiles into enemy boxes, Tonks gets up at the crack of dawn to deliver sandwiches from his van.
“They're all getting recovery massages and rub-downs and stuff,” he told ITV News of Spurs' preparations for the match. “And yes, I'm standing here in the cold delivering food.”
Chris Wreh: Forward
An FA Cup history runs through the Wreh family, with striker Chris's father Christopher scoring the only goal for Arsenal in their semi-final win over Wolves on the Gunners' way to winning the competition in 1998 .
“I was almost two at the time,” Chris told Mail Sport in 2021 while playing for Banbury. 'I can't remember much about it, but I have seen pictures of me with the players. My mother has one of David Seaman holding me during the bus parade and one of me with the Community Shield.
'I've seen a few games later in Dad's career, I've seen the goals and people tell me about him, relatives, uncles, and every now and then I come across Arsenal fans who make the connection and know something about him.
'It was a big deal for him to come from such a small country and play for a club like Arsenal. He came at a time when there were a lot of big names, but he tells me he wasn't concerned about the big names because he came to make some history.”
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