Club Focus - Kidderminster Harriers
I won't be able to go to a game this Saturday, so the next match I will see will be the bank holiday showdown between Burton Albion and Kidderminster Harriers at the Pirelli Stadium. Kidderminster Harriers are an ex-league team, who have been responsible for an interesting few records. They were founder members of the Birmingham and District League in 1889, they were the first team to hold a floodlit FA Cup match (in a preliminary round game against Brierley Hill in 1955, which they won 4-2), the first team to have a match officiated by a team of all females ( against Nuneaton Borough in 1999 - they won 2-1) and were involved in the first match at the new Wembley in 2007 (the FA Trophy final, which they lost 3-2 to Stevenage Borough). Kidder despite having played in the league have never really been one of non-league's giants, mainly because of the support for bigger league teams in their area. They were formed from an athletics and rugby team in 1886, hence the strange name. T...