Reading 3 - 2 West Brom

Tuesday, 17 January 2006
FA Cup Replay

I didn't go to this one either - I need to save up for next years grossly inflated Premiership season ticket!

Sounded like a good game though - Reading Reserves v West Brom Reserves - and a Leroy Lita hat-trick sealed it in Extra Time. And the ref booked him for taking his shirt off!

Good news overall for Lita because he hasn't played much recently but with Kitson & Doyle in the goals, & Long making his impressive start to his Reading career, he needs to do something to justify th £1M price tag.

Birmingham next then, and they're in poor form. I can't think when Reading last progressed beyond the 3rd round of the FA Cup. Arsenal 71 was a good game but we got knocked out, and Man Utd during Cantona's era was also a 3rd round knockout. What a season it could be - our first team wins the league and the reserves march off with the cup!