He might be winding down his career in the Conference with Eastleigh now, but four years ago Ben Strevens was Brentford's hero at Elland Road.
The Bees were enjoying a solid if unspectacular return to League One after winning the League Two title nine months earlier when they took on fallen giants Leeds at their famous old stadium in March 2010.
Barely a decade earlier, Leeds had been Champions League semi-finalists, but following a well publicised financial meltdown, found themselves in the third tier for the first time in their history.
Andy Scott's men had already acquitted themselves well against the division's bigger boys, who had all dropped into League One during Brentford's two-year absence – beating Norwich and drawing with Leeds, Charlton and Southampton.
But going into the return match against Leeds, they were in the middle of a run of just one win in nine games, so nobody gave them much of a chance of getting anything at Elland Road.
However, after Sam Wood fluffed a one on one chance to put the Bees in front, Strevens – who had joined the Bees the previous summer along with Dagenham & Redbridge team-mates Sam Saunders and Danny Foster – sent the travelling Bees fans wild when he forced home a corner on the hour mark.
However, 12 minutes later the relentless Leeds pressure paid off and Jermaine Beckford levelled matters from a Gary McSheffrey cross. Despite the disappointment, the Bees were grateful of the point in the end after Lubo Michalik hit the post in injury time.
That was probably the high point of Strevens' Brentford career, which lasted just one season and saw seven goals in 29 games, as he was flogged to Wycombe a few months later.
Leeds went on to win promotion back to the Championship that year, as runners-up to Norwich, while Brentford finished an impressive ninth in their first season back in League One.
Strevens partnered Charlie MacDonald up front that day at Elland Road in front of a midfield of Myles Weston, Sam Wood and Toumani Diagouraga, while Wojchiech Szczesny kept goal behind a back five of Kevin O'Connor, Ryan Dickson, Mark Phillips, Tommy Smith and Leon Legge.
Those two stalemates in 2009-10 were the first meetings between the two sides in almost 50 years, since Leeds beat Brentford 4-1 in the League Cup in September 1961. You have to go back a decade further to find Brentford's last win, a 2-1 victory in the old Division Two in October 1953. Leeds have overall bragging rights with 11 wins to Brentford's seven, and 10 finishing a point apiece.
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