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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:
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
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:
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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