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2002/03 Reports

Competition Date Opponent Venue Result
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (10.05am) Derby County Watford Lost 0-3
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (10.40am) Millwall Watford Won 3-2
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (11.50am) Luton Town Watford Drew 1-1
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (12.25pm) Peterborough United Watford Lost 0-1
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (1.35pm) Fulham Watford Won 1-0
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (2pm) Arsenal Watford Lost 0-2
Pro Youth U-12 GT Festival Sunday, 4th August (4pm) Watford Watford Drew 3-3

These games formed part of the Graham Taylor International Festival of Football, held annually at Parmiter's School in Watford. The Reading Under-12 team for the 2002/03 season took part in the section of the tournament described as "Pro Youth Under-12".

There were fourteen teams, split into two groups of seven. Matches were played over 25 minutes with no half-time. Reading were in Group B and the final group table was as follows:

  P W D L F A GD Pts
Arsenal 6 5 0 1 11 5 +6 15
Derby County 6 4 1 1 10 5 +5 13
Millwall 6 2 2 2 8 8 0 8
Reading 6 2 1 3 5 9 -4 7
Peterborough United 5 2 0 4 3 6 -3 6
Fulham 6 1 2 3 3 5 -2 5
Luton Town 6 1 2 3 2 4 -2 5

At the end of the day, Reading played in a play-off game against the fourth-placed team from the other group, Watford. This match was a draw so in some sense Reading finished joint seventh of the 14 teams.

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