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The draw for the First Qualifying Round of the Emirates FA Cup will be made on Monday 21 August at 1pm.

Leamington will be in this draw, and the draw will be regionalised.

We will reveal who we have drawn on our website and social media shortly after 1pm on Monday.

Leamington welcome Mickleover to Your Co-op Community Stadium on Saturday, and we've got plenty on offer before and after the game in the clubhouse.

Ahead of the Leamington match, our live game will be Chesterfield vs Oldham Athletic in the Vanarama National League - which kicks off at 12:30 on TNT Sports. The clubhouse will open at 1pm, due to staffing. 

After our game, we'll be heading to Italy with live coverage of Frosinone vs Napoli in Serie A which kicks off at 17:30. As well as this game, we'll have our usual Man of the Match presentation in connection with Church Farm Brewery and our players will all be present in the bar.

On tap this Saturday, we have six local Warwickshire products from Church Farm Brewery. These are: Harry's Heifer, Special IPA, Pale Ale, Brown's Porter, Pilsner and Medium Cider. We also have classic favourites on tap too.

Church Farm Brewery loyalty cards are also in stock at the bar, buy five Church Farm pints and get one free!

Dawn and her team are looking forward to welcoming everyone into the clubhouse, including Mickleover fans who are more than welcome both before, during and after the game.

Paul Holleran spoke to BBC CWR's Brian Halford after Leamington's disappointing 5-2 defeat to the bookies' promotion favourites Coalville Town.

"Coalville bossed it in the early stages," Holleran said. "They're a good outfit with lots of good players. We found our way back into the game, then. We tinkered with our system a bit to try and give us a bit more control in the middle of the park. I don't think we were great all afternoon but we've shown a bit of character to come back twice and got in the game, which was evenly balanced at that point.

"The facts are the facts though, we're 2-2 with 86 minutes and you're 5-2 down at the end of the game, I think it tells its own story. I think what we've got in the changing room and the calibre of some of the players, that shouldn't happen. It's been a poor afternoon for us all round, we haven't been good but when you get to late in the game against one of, if not the best side in the league you'll take it and go again. But it's really concerning and something we need to resolve."

Callum Stewart scored his first competitive Leamington goal, and the gaffer commented "Yeah (it was a good goal). At that point, we had the upper hand but on the whole they looked more leggy than us, passed the ball better than us and of course you'd have taken a draw but it's very hard for me to stand here with 2-2 at 86 minutes and try and explain what I've just seen. Some of the individual errors we've made and how we've not reacted to the space. Some of our decision making was mindblowing, it hasn't been good all afternoon but the injury time period is a period where coaches up and down the country could use to show their sides how not to defend.

"When we've been in this league before, we've come away to places that are hard to win at and grind out a result, keep a clean sheet. There's plenty for us to think about, to work on and some realisation for one or two people."

Halford then asked Holleran about the new players creating a "work in progress", which Holleran replied "Yeah I'll accept that and I know the first ten games will be interesting but I've just told the players that I know we've got a bit to do and in some of the games so far there's been some really good performances and good periods. I'll accept there's some teething problems but not that. What's happened at the end today is nothing to do with the system or new players. That's to do with not defending properly, not being switched on, being too easy to hop around, skip around and that ten minute period will take a bit of explaining."