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BT To Show Royals Trip To Manchester United
08 December 2016
By Hob Nob Anyone?
Reading's FA Cup third round match against Manchester United will be screened live on BT Sport. The game's selection for TV coverage will see the game kick-off at 12:30pm on Saturday 7 January 2017. The game was always likely to be picked for live TV with Reading manager Jaap Stam making a return to his old club, who find themselves out of form and struggling in the Premier League.
The lunch time kick-off will mean an early start for the Reading fans that choose to make the trip up to Manchester. Ticket prices, allocation and sale dates are yet to be confirmed by the clubs.
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Sutekh
On Monday the draw for the 3rd round of the FA Cup will be with us (live on BBC 2 at 7pm)
Reading will be number 32
For the last 3 years Reading have been give cr@p ties away at fellow Division 2 sides (Huddersfield twice and little tiny tinpot Brighton) and while you may feel a change should be on the cards my expectation is for something equally cr@p like Leeds, Norwich, Barnsley or some other game against a familiar old face
Personally I'd like a game against a non league team e.g. Woking or Brackley but looking at the 2nd round it seems that there aren't too many of those left (only one guaranteed to make the draw - Eastleigh or Halifax)
So failing that a game against Carlisle would be nice as I believe they are the team the we have gone the longest without playing (35 years?) plus who wouldnt want to go to Cumbria in January?
Anyway stick your guesses for the draw below...
Reading will be number 32
For the last 3 years Reading have been give cr@p ties away at fellow Division 2 sides (Huddersfield twice and little tiny tinpot Brighton) and while you may feel a change should be on the cards my expectation is for something equally cr@p like Leeds, Norwich, Barnsley or some other game against a familiar old face
Personally I'd like a game against a non league team e.g. Woking or Brackley but looking at the 2nd round it seems that there aren't too many of those left (only one guaranteed to make the draw - Eastleigh or Halifax)
So failing that a game against Carlisle would be nice as I believe they are the team the we have gone the longest without playing (35 years?) plus who wouldnt want to go to Cumbria in January?
Anyway stick your guesses for the draw below...
Ark Royal
^This. Last time we played Barrow was January 1972, the week before the FA Cup 4th round tie against Arsenal. Crowd was boosted to 11,000+ by the handout of vouchers to buy cup tickets. Barrow lost their league status at the end of that season, losing re-election and replaced by Hereford Utd.
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