November 17 has been a fairly memorable date in the history of our football club, as this trip down memory lane demonstrates.........
17/11/1934 - Singer were beaten 7-2 at home in the Coventry & North Warwickshire League Division 2 - Rawlings (2), Edwards, Norton, Harwood, Gardner and Smith the scorers.
17/11/51- Moor Green were defeated 2-1 away from home in the 3rd Round of the Birmingham Senior Cup - Wally Soden with both goals.
17/11/56 - A 3-1 home win over Stourbridge in the Birmingham & District League in front of 1,054 at the Windmill Ground - Burrows with a brace and Hartley were the goalscorers.
17/11/62 - Stourbridge were beaten at home again, 4-2 this time in the West Midlands Regional League. Syd Hall, Barry Shorthose with two and Peter Newbery the scorers.
17/11/70 - Gloucester City were the victors in an FA Trophy 2nd Qualifying Round Replay at the Windmill Ground, by 2 goals to 1. Kevin Vale was our scorer.
17/11/73 - Back to form on November 17th as Bedworth United were thrashed 5-1 at the Windmill in the Southern League Division 1 North in front 232. Lee and Brady with two each and Goodfellow were the goalscorers.
17/11/79 - Stafford Rangers 1 AP Leamington 1 in the Alliance Premier League in front of 1,044 people at Marston Road. Duncan Gardner scored a last minute equaliser for Brakes.
17/11/84 - West Midlands Police were beaten 4-3 in 2nd Round of the Birmingham Senior Cup at Tally Ho! Was Jim Scott playing for the Police that night? You will have to ask him! Paul Sinnott (2), Lamin Konteh and Carlo Rossi were the Brakes scorers.
17/11/87 - Brakes entertained Birmingham City in the 2nd Round of the Birmingham Senior Cup and lost 4-1, with an own goal our consolation on the night.
17/11/01 - Polesworth North Warwicks 2 Leamington 3 in the second round of the Birmingham County Vase in front of 120. I vividly remember feigning illness at work to be able to go to this game!!! Darren Timms, Jonny Burgess and Josh Blake were the goalscorers.
17/11/04 - A 2-1 defeat at Massey Ferguson in the Birmingham FA Midweek Cup, in front of 90 (mostly, probably nearly all Brakes) fans. Jon Adams scored our goal.
17/11/09 - Paul Holleran's first home game in charge of Leamington was a Birmingham Senior Cup tie - and what a game it was! Future England keeper Jack Butland was in goal for Birmingham City's youngsters, and he had a fantastic game, but was unable to prevent Brakes from winning 3-2 with a dramatic late winner from Luke Corbett. Mark Bellingham and Chris Murphy were our other scorers.
17/11/12 - Leamington 3 St Neots Town 0 in the Southern League Premier Division - Big spending, ambitious St Neots rolled into town and were duly sent packing with three goals in the opening 20 minutes from Liam Daly, Steph Morley and Lee Chilton in front of 707 at the New Windmill Ground.
17/11/18 - Leamington 1 Chester 0 in the National League North. The grass was too long, the ball was too round and other such excuses were made, but Colby Bishop's 84th minute goal saw off Chester at the Phillips 66 Community Stadium. 975 were there to see it.
17/11/20 - Leamington 4 Alfreton Town 3. It would be so much better to be able to say 'Who could ever forget that they witnessed this game?' But sadly it was played behind closed doors due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Nevertheless it turned out to be one of the most thrilling encounters played out on Harbury Lane in recent years as Brakes somehow turned round a 0-3 half time deficit to win 4-3 with an injury time diving header from captain Jack Edwards. Sam Osborne's brace and Lance Smith's equaliser preceded it.
