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Right, no time to waste and we move on to our next game…

A recent upturn in form by Reading makes this Saturday’s game harder than some may think.

Earlier this season (December 8th 2018), we won 2-0 at Reading



Although we only first played Reading on 13th October 1979, I’ve gone back further than normal with our ‘recent’ games as – for a long period – The Royals held an ‘Indian sign’ over the Blades where – mostly under the stewardship of Reading manager Steve Coppell – and (usually) Neil Warnock’s Blades - we failed to win in a run of eleven games against them. A large part of the reason for this was that Reading had some very good players around this time, including Marcus Hahnemann in goal, James Harper, Nickey Shorey, Luke Chadwick, Steve Sidwell, Nickey Forster, Stephen Hunt, Kevin Doyle, Dave Kitson and Leroy Lita. True, the Blades had some very good players as well, but Reading always seemed to have that bit of extra quality.

Since then, the Indian sign seems to have lifted and – a 0-4 defeat at Reading in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup on 26th January, 2013 apart – United have won seven and drawn one of our last eight meetings.

On 21st October 2017, we beat The Royals 2-1 in a Championship match at Bramall Lane. 2-0 up at half-time (Coutts and Sharp), a sloppy 85th minute goal by Reading’s Beerens provided a few late jitters, but the 26,265 crowd went home happy.




Coutts’ goal, from just outside the area, was his only goal this season and he would be injured at Burton less than a month later:




On 14th February 2006 it was ‘first v. second’ in The Championship in front of over 25k on a Tuesday evening at Bramall Lane. We drew 1-1 and – later that year – United were in The Premiership:





Recent-ish games against Reading:

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Full history Sheffield United v Reading

To date, our League Record v Reading:

Home: P: 19 W: 8 D: 6 L: 5 F: 30 A: 19

Away: P: 20 W: 9 D: 1 L: 10 F: 26 A: 23


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Championship Table:

Our fine win against Middlesbrough on Wednesday sees us cement our place around the autos/play-offs position:

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Meanwhile, at the Wednesday end of the table, Readings’ fine home win against Blackburn this week saw them climb out of the bottom three.

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Full Championship Table

Form Guide:

The Blades remain ‘there or thereabouts’ at the top end of the table, helped by our fifth consecutive home win (including four ‘clean sheets) against Middlesbrough…

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…while Reading are surprisingly in eighth spot.

Full Championship Form Guide

History:

Despite being founded in 1871, The Royals did not join the Football League until 1920. They played at Elm Park for 102 years – from 1896 until 1998 when, as a result of The Taylor Report, they moved to the new, purpose-built Madejski Stadium. Reading are nicknamed The Royals, due to Reading's location in the Royal County of Berkshire, though they were previously known as The Biscuitmen, due to the town's association with Huntley and Palmers. Established in 1871, the club is one of the oldest teams in England, but did not join The Football League until 1920, and had never played in the top tier of English football league system before the 2006–07 season. The club competed in the 2012–13 Premier League season, having gained promotion at the end of the 2011–12 season after winning the Championship, but were relegated after just one season back in the top flight.

Top Scorers:

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Men to Watch:


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Top-scorer Icelandic international Jón Daði Böðvarsson broke a bone in his back v Bristol City on 3rd November 2018. He has been absent in The Royals’ starting line-up ever since, but has been introduced as a late substitute in Readings’ last two games (pigs & Blackburn).

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Nélson Oliveira scored the winner in this weeks’ home win v Blackburn. After suffering an horrific facial injury inflicted by Aston Villa’s Tyrone Mings less than a fortnight ago, Oliveira is playing with a facial-protection mask.

Worth a minor mention is Leandro Bacuna. Reading’s fourth-highest scorer moved to Cardiff on the last day of the January Transfer Window for a fee believed to be £3m. And? Bacuna took the last penalty to be awarded against The Blades in the league (on Feb. 27th 2018)…and missed!

The Manager:


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José Manuel Gomes was appointed Reading manager on 22nd December 2018. Rarely staying in place for more than a year, The Royals are Gomes’ eighteenth managerial appointment in 20 years. (Shades of Carlos Carvalhal?)

Significant Others:

Dave Kitson played 135 games for Reading between 2003 and 2008, scoring 54 goals. After spells at Stoke, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth, Kitson joined United on 31st August 2012, playing 33 league games and scoring a creditable 11 goals in the 2012-13 season. Despite finishing this season in fifth place, this was a period of transition for the Blades which saw Danny Wilson replaced as manager for Chris Morgan as caretaker manager.

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We ended the season losing out in the play-offs to…Yeovil.

Nigel Adkins was manager of Reading from 26th March 2013 until 15th December 2014.

Ex-Blades player Martin Kuhl was manager at The Royals for just 20 days – from 4th December 2015 until 17th December 2015.

Marc McNulty played 40 games for the Blades, scoring ten goals before being loaned out to Portsmouth by Chris Wilder. We eventually sold him to Coventry on 18th May 2017 where he prospered. He scored 23 goals in 42 goals for the Sky Blues. He was sold to Reading on 6th July 2018 but made only six starts for The Royals during the 2018–19 season, and he was loaned to Hibernian on 31 January 2019.

John Ebbrell was signed from Everton by then-Blades manager Howard Kendall after ten years at Goodison Park, where he made 207 appearances for the Toffees. We paid £1.2m for Ebbrell in 1997 but his career in Sheffield was blighted by an ankle injury that he picked up at Everton and never fully recovered from, despite numerous surgeries. Ebbrell's one Blades appearance came in a 2-0 win over Reading on March 29th, 1997, when he caused Royals defender Paul Bodin to score an own goal before being forced off with injured ribs. After two more years fighting injury, Ebbrell retired with just the one United appearance to his name.

That’s all, folks!
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11 October 1986, home to Reading.

60 mins: 3-0 to us
65 mins: 3-3

Until last Friday, that was the last time we'd gone 3 up in a game and not won it.

21 November 1987, home to Reading.

Won 4-1. Peter Withe scored twice on his return from his infamous loan spell at Birmingham.

Attendance, 6,977. That was the last time we drew less than 7,000 for a home League match.
 
Paul Coutts. What a bloke. I know he's a professional footballer, so he should be able to use both feet, but fuck me. How do you do that with your *weaker* foot?
 
My cousin is a Reading fan, he used to come up to Sheffield from Windsor whenever we played them and they always bleedin' beat us.

At the end of one game, Hahnemann chucked his water bottle into the away end, our Nick caught it and used it as a trophy to remind us of the result.

Went down to the cup game, what a bleak day that was...about 1287309 foot of snow overnight meant people forgot how to drive so it took ages to get past Nottingham, but the snow cleared after that. Unfortunately the shit storm did not. 4 bleedin' 0.

Fortunes have reversed lately, and Reading will be lucky to stay in the division (as my cousin agrees).

Need a win here to continue putting the pressure on the top 2. Starting to feel a bit real now... :eek:
 
What you had for your tea Dave?

Spaghetti

Oh, bolognese?

No, hoops.
 
11 October 1986, home to Reading.

60 mins: 3-0 to us
65 mins: 3-3

Until last Friday, that was the last time we'd gone 3 up in a game and not won it.

21 November 1987, home to Reading.

Won 4-1. Peter Withe scored twice on his return from his infamous loan spell at Birmingham.

Attendance, 6,977. That was the last time we drew less than 7,000 for a home League match.
I remember that day and thought of it on Friday night but I hadn't realised it was such a quick comeback. Jeez.
 


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Right, no time to waste and we move on to our next game…

A recent upturn in form by Reading makes this Saturday’s game harder than some may think.

Earlier this season (December 8th 2018), we won 2-0 at Reading



Although we only first played Reading on 13th October 1979, I’ve gone back further than normal with our ‘recent’ games as – for a long period – The Royals held an ‘Indian sign’ over the Blades where – mostly under the stewardship of Reading manager Steve Coppell – and (usually) Neil Warnock’s Blades - we failed to win in a run of eleven games against them. A large part of the reason for this was that Reading had some very good players around this time, including Marcus Hahnemann in goal, James Harper, Nickey Shorey, Luke Chadwick, Steve Sidwell, Nickey Forster, Stephen Hunt, Kevin Doyle, Dave Kitson and Leroy Lita. True, the Blades had some very good players as well, but Reading always seemed to have that bit of extra quality.

Since then, the Indian sign seems to have lifted and – a 0-4 defeat at Reading in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup on 26th January, 2013 apart – United have won seven and drawn one of our last eight meetings.

On 21st October 2017, we beat The Royals 2-1 in a Championship match at Bramall Lane. 2-0 up at half-time (Coutts and Sharp), a sloppy 85th minute goal by Reading’s Beerens provided a few late jitters, but the 26,265 crowd went home happy.




Coutts’ goal, from just outside the area, was his only goal this season and he would be injured at Burton less than a month later:




On 14th February 2006 it was ‘first v. second’ in The Championship in front of over 25k on a Tuesday evening at Bramall Lane. We drew 1-1 and – later that year – United were in The Premiership:





Recent-ish games against Reading:

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Full history Sheffield United v Reading

To date, our League Record v Reading:

Home: P: 19 W: 8 D: 6 L: 5 F: 30 A: 19

Away: P: 20 W: 9 D: 1 L: 10 F: 26 A: 23


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Surely the Biscuitmen!
 

Jeff King. mid week away at ElmPark,half volley from a corner straight in to the top corner.........
Pity it was a Utd og best I've seen to date
Utb
 

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