Familiar face awaits Reading FC in Adobe FA Cup Third Round

Royals will meet their former captain
Reading FC Women captain Tash Harding. Photo: Neil Graham / ngsportsphotography.com

Recently relegated Reading FC Women will come up against a familiar face in Tash Harding in the third-round of the Adobe FA Womens Cup.

The draw has pitted Reading against FA Womens National League South Cheltenham Town Ladies, the club that Tash Harding joined a few weeks ago in a player-coach role. Harding played an integral role for Reading in a multitude of positions for six years and only left the club last May.

While Harding is a familiar face, it’s a younger Welshwoman the team will be keeping a keen eye on, as it Phoebe Poole is the top scorer for the Robins with 8 in 13 so far this term.

The game will take place on Sunday 10th December at Kayte Lane, home of Bishops Cleeve FC.

Elsewhere in the draw contains Berkshire interest as Maidenhead United Women will host Watford if they can dispatch Southampton in their delayed second round tie.

Third Round Draw

AFC Bournemouth Women vs Charlton Athletic Women
Cheltenham Town Ladies vs Reading Women
Chester-Le-Street Town Ladies vs Derby County Women
Coundon Court Ladies vs Burnley Women
Crystal Palace Women vs Chatham Town Women
Darwen Women vs Blackburn Rovers Women
Hull City Ladies vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Women
Ipswich Town LFC vs Lewes Women
London City Lionesses LFC vs Billericay Town Women
Luton Town LFC vs Bristol Rovers Women or Keynsham Town Ladies
Milton Keynes Dons Women vs Birmingham City Women
Moneyfields Women vs Millwall Lionesses LFC
Newcastle United Women vs Stoke City Women
Nottingham Forest Women vs Boldmere St Michaels Women
Plymouth Argyle Women vs Oxford United Women
Portsmouth Women vs Southampton Women
Rugby Borough Women vs Sheffield United Women
Southampton Womens or Maidenhead United Women vs Watford Women
Sunderland AFC Women vs Durham Cestria LFC
West Bromwich Albion Women vs Durham Women

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