Saturday's visitors to the Fold are Tamworth. Tamworth were relegated out of the Conference National last season, and started this season with high hopes. Currently they are in nineteenth, one place below Celtic on eight points, below on goal difference only. There will be a match centre for this game.
Last season they finished on thirty-nine points in the second relegation spot, six points from safety. They'd not had the best record in their run in, winning three and drawing two out of their final ten games, and have only one once on the road in the last ten matches, including this season. That win was over fellow relegation strugglers, Dartford. This season they've continued in the same vein, with four straight on the road draws, one win and one draw at home; so while they have only lost twice (to Stockport 1-0 and Chorley 3-0) apart from beating Gloucester 2-1, they've not won either.
Their top scorer this season has been Kirk Jackson, who has two. They've failed to score in three matches this season, two of which they lost, and the other was an opening day goalless draw with Harrogate, which was also their only clean sheet of the season. Celtic haven't beaten Tamworth at Bower Fold in recent times, with Tamworth's last visit here in 2008 a 2-2 draw with two goals from Andy Smart to take the lead and to grab an equaliser. That result followed an earlier season magnificent win in Tamworth, where we won 3-0, with one of the goals a thirty-five yard lob on the run from Terry Barwick that had been a contender for goal of the season. Tamworth's last win at Bower Fold was in the FA Trophy, when they beat us 2-0. Not scoring against Tamworth was a bit of a theme until the 3-0 win, as we failed to score against them in three times of asking.
Tamworth have twice had to rely on late penalties to take anything from their games, the most recent their last match, which finished 1-1 away at Gainsborough Trinity. In that match they lined up as:
1. James Belshaw
2. Shane Clarke
3. Kayden Jackson
4. Michael Townsend
5. Daniel Preston
6. Paul Green
7. George Grayson
8. Robert Purdie
9. David Hibbert
10. Kevin Thornton
11. Brendon Daniels