Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakakitea e te kaiwhakahaere o Reading, a Steve Clarke, kihai ia i mātakitaki i te whiringa toa a te kapa FA, i a ia e kore nei e titiro ki tua atu i te tukinga o te rauna tuaono o te Mane ki a Bradford. Ka pōwhiri atu te Royal ki te kapa a Phil Parkinson ki te papa tākaro o Madejski i te pō o te Rāhina, ā, ka eke te toa ki te whā whakamutunga ki te tūtaki ki te kapa toa o Arsenal ki Wembley. Ko te toenga kore-whaainga i Valley Parade i te toenga taketake ko te tikanga i hangaia i muri i te wikitoria a Arsenal i Manchester United engari i mua i te tukinga ka whakatau ko wai ka tu ki nga Gunners. E whakaatu ana te kaiwhakahaere o Reading a Steve Clarke kāore ia i mātakitaki i te whiringa toa o te kapa FA. I whakatutukihia e Reading rāua ko Bradford tētahi tukinga kore pōti i te hauwhā whakamutunga o te FA Cup i te wiki kua hipa. A ko Clarke, e iwa ana huringa i tana kapa i hinga 4-1 ki Watford i roto i to raatau whakataetae Sky Bet Championship i te Rahoroi, e kii ana kaore e taea e ia te whakangahau i te whakaaro mo te ra Wembley i te mea e whakaute ana ia ki a Bradford. 'Kāore au i mātakitaki i te tāpaetanga,' ka mea ia. 'I tuku karere mai tētahi hoa ki a au, e kii ana kua tohe mātou ki a Arsenal, engari kāore au i te whakaaro kia mātakitaki. 'E kore ahau e whakaaro he aha te rerekētanga. Ki taku whakaaro he nui rawa te kēmu ki a Bradford, ā, he nui rawa te utu o te eke ki te whiringa toa o te FA Cup. Nō reira, kāore au i te whakaaro he rerekētanga te whakataetae haurua whakamutunga ki tētahi o ngā kapa. 'I mua i te kōrero mō ngā haurua whakamutunga me haere koe ki te hauwhā whakamutunga, ā, ko tā mātou e hiahia ana ki te mahi. He aha te take o te whakaaro ki tētahi kēmu kāore i reira? Me whakaaro koe ki te kēmu e haere mai ana, ā, he kēmu tino uaua tēnei mō mātou ki tētahi kapa Bradford tino pai.' Na Almen Abdi (pokapū) i whakaara a Watford ki te tīmatanga moemoea ki a Reading mā te piro i roto i te meneti kotahi. Ko Matej Vyrdra (matau) hoki te kaitiaki i a Watford i wikitoria i a Reading 4-1 i te ahiahi o te Rahoroi. Ahakoa he hui pea ki nga toa o te Ipu FA a Arsene Wenger, e whakapono ana a Clarke me aro atu tana roopu ki a raatau ake angitu i roto i te whakataetae o tenei wa, kaua ki te tumanako noa mo te ra o Wembley ki a Arsenal. 'Ki te tae ki Wembley...
E whakaae ana a Steve Clarke kāore ia i mātakitaki i te whiringa toa FA Cup. Ka tūtaki a Reading ki a Bradford i te tukinga o te hauwhā whakamutunga o te FA Cup ā te Mane. E rua ngā taha i tākaro i tētahi tākaro kore pōti i te mutunga wiki o mua.