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The 2012–13 Football League Cup fourth round tie pitted Premier League sides Reading and Arsenal to contest for a quarter-final spot. The match ended in a 7–5 win for Arsenal, in the highest-scoring match in League Cup history. Reading had taken a 4–0 lead in the first half, but Theo Walcott reduced
Arsenal players celebrating their win against Sevilla in September 2007. The club were drawn in Group H, along with UEFA Cup holders Sevilla, Slavia Prague of the Czech Republic and Romania's Steaua București. [84] Arsenal started their campaign in good stead, beating Sevilla 3–0 and followed the result with a 1–0 victory against Steaua ...
Reading went 1–0 down to a Vicente penalty in the first half, before an 89th-minute equaliser from Robson-Kanu levelled the game. [31] Reading's last friendly was on 11 August against Crystal Palace at the Madejski Stadium. Second half goals from Pavel Pogrebnyak and Adam Le Fondre were enough to complete a winning end to the pre-season. [32]
The 2005–06 season was Arsenal Football Club's 14th season in the Premier League and their 80th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. [1] [2] It was the final season in which home matches were played at the club's Highbury stadium after 93 years; Arsenal intended to move to its new 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium in time for the following season.
Arsenal had played in six Football League Cup finals, but had only won two, most recently in 1993 when they beat Sheffield Wednesday 2–1. Birmingham's only League Cup title came in 1963 , when they beat local rivals Aston Villa 3–1 on aggregate after a two-legged final.
Reading; 2005–06 season; Chairman: John Madejski: Manager: Steve Coppell: Championship: 1st: FA Cup: Fourth Round vs Birmingham City: League Cup: Fourth Round vs Arsenal: Top goalscorer: League: Two Players (18) All: Dave Kitson (22) Highest home attendance: 23,845 vs Southampton (10 February 2006) Lowest home attendance: 6,941 vs Luton Town ...
Arsenal planned to make it the third successive decade for a club to return as Cup-holders and win for a second successive year, as Newcastle United had done in 1952 and Tottenham Hotspur in 1962. This final is the origin of the song "Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!" (commonly known as "Marching On Together"), which was the B-side of Leeds's Cup Final ...
Aldershot-Reading rivalry: Aldershot Town vs. Reading [232] [233] Arsenal–Stoke rivalry: Arsenal vs. Stoke City [293] Cambridge–Colchester rivalry: Cambridge United vs. Colchester United [294] Chesterfield-Sheffield rivalry: Chesterfield vs. Sheffield United or Sheffield Wednesday [295] [296] Crewe-Walsall rivalry: Crewe Alexandra vs ...