Tuesday night hopefully sees Albion travel to first division Birtley Town for the Brooks Mileson League Cup 2nd Round tie. This will be the first competitive game against the Hoops since their 2022/23 promotion season when they did the double over us winning 4-1 at Birtley & 5-1 at the Albion. We have met Town once before in this competition, also in the 2nd Round way back in the 2008/09 season when Ryton FC as we were then, won 2-0 at Kingsley Park. More recently, Birtley’s schedule has been hit almost as much as our own by the weather, but they did get to play at Boro Rangers on Saturday & despite a 3-0 defeat on Teesside, remain in the top half of Division 1. RACA haven’t played a competitive game since 24th January so will we be fully rested or ring rusty on Tuesday night? Kick off is at 7:30pm at the Arrowmark Home Improvements Stadium, Newtown Industrial Estate, Birtley, DH3 2QW but keep an eye out on this site & social media for the possibility of this game being postponed too.