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WE MEET AGAIN - RACING CLUB WARWICK

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:07 am
by Alan Beckett
WE MEET AGAIN – RACING CLUB WARWICK

Racing Club Warwick were first established in 1919 under the name Saltisford Rovers and changed to their current name in 1970 an easy step to make seeing as their ground is on the Warwick Race Course. They made it into the top division of the Midland Combination in 1972, three seasons before Coleshill but from the 1975/76 season the two sides met at that level for 14 years until Racing gained promotion to the Southern League. Warwick came back to the Com for the 2008/09 season, the year Coleshill won the Championship and that was the last time the two sides met in the League until this season.
The two sides also met in the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1979 and again in 2000 when Racing were in the Southern League and Coleshill three leagues below in the Midland Combination Division 1. The first game was at Warwick and ended 0-0. Town lost the replay 2-1 but a good night was had by all!
They met again in the BSC in 2022, Town winning with goals from Josh Willis and Isia Marsilla. They have also competed in the FA Cup, 2018, and FA Vase 2013.
My records for the period the sides were in the same league in the 70's and 80's is very poor and I'm missing 13 results!

RESULTS
LEAGUE

Northern Premier League Midland Division
2024/25 Home 0-2 Away 0-1

Midland Combination
2008/09 Home 2-0 Scott Wells, Matty Robinson. Away 2-0 Matty Robinson, Ben Porter.
1988/89 Home 0-2 Away 1-2 Frank Hickman.
1987/88 Home 0-0 Away 1-1 Neil Hughes.
1986/87 Home 0-4 Away 1-7 Derek Christopher pen.
1985/86 Home 2-2 Scorers unknown. Away 2-2 Gary Williams 2.
1984/85 Home Unknown. Away 1-2 Woolley.
1983/84 Home 3-0 Bob Dyer, John Mann 2. Away 1-3 Scorer unknown.
1982/83 Home 1-0 Steve Polack. Away 3-4 Kirk Jennings 2, Alan Lloyd
1981/82 Home 1-5 Mickey Calvert Away Unknown.
1980/81 Home 0-2 Away 0-7.
1979/80 Home 0-1 Away 3-2 John Allen, Felicetto Nardiello, Peter Dawkins.
1978/79 Home & Away Unknown.
1977/78 Home & Away Unknown.
1976/77 Home & Away Unknown.
1975/76 Home & Away Unknown.

RESULTS
CUP

Birmingham Senior Cup
2022
Away 2-0 Josh Willis, Isia Marsilla.
2000
Away 0-0 AET Replay Home 1-2 Scorer Tim Hilton
1979
Home 1-2 Scorer Unknown
F.A.Cup
2018
Away 3-4 Ryan Edmunds, Rob Evans, George Washbourne.
2013
F.A.Vase
Home 4-2 Matt Brown 2, Jake Murrall, Dean Rathbone.


ALL TIME RECORD
League
P32 W5 D4 L13 F24 A49 - 10 unknown results
Cup
P6 W2 D1 L3 F13 A12
Total
P38 W7 D5 L16 F37 A61 - 10 unknown results.

1983/84 Season – Coleshill were fresh from winning the Walsall Senior Cup the season before and Manager Colin Holder was building a decent side but the campaign got off to a bad start with three straight defeats to Studley Sporting, Mile Oak Rovers and Paget Rangers. A 1-0 win away to Smethwick Highfield, a goal by John Mann, got things back on track and then Racing Club Warwick came to Pack Meadow on Saturday 27th August. Goals by captain Bob Dyer and a John Mann double secured a fine win and Coleshill only suffered three more defeats from then until February, RCW got revenge by winning the return game 3-1, to go top of the Midland Combination for the first time in the club’s history. Studley pushed Town all the way and on the final day of the season Coleshill travelled to Hurley Daw Mill needing a win to claim the title. Coleshill took the lead through Roy Ashman but the Mill equalised in the closing minutes and Studley were Champions. Coleshill had to wait another 24 years to final lift the Midland Combination Trophy.