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Opponents - Grays Athletic

Our 1st round opponents in the 2000/01 FA Cup are new to me, and I suspect to most Reading fans. Grays is a town near Tilbury in Essex, and their football team currently play in the Ryman League Premier Division. I say "currently" because at the time of the FA Cup draw they are bottom of the League, having won only one of their twelve League matches. The game at Madejski Stadium really will be their cup final.

Some Grays Athletic information:

• Record defeat - 0-12 against Enfield (Athenian League, 1963)

• Last Reading victory - the only time we've played them, 4-0 in November 2000

• Nearest station to ground - Grays

• Trivia - goalkeeper Ray Kemp joined Reading from Grays Athletic in December 1949 when both of our two regular keepers got injured. Kemp was an amateur at the time and only played three games for Reading.
  David Crown played for Grays before moving to Walthamstow, Brentford, Portsmouth and then to Reading. Crown was Grays' record transfer fee received, as they and Walthamstow shared the £13,000 fee from Brentford.
  Tony Witter also played for both Reading and Grays Athletic.

Some Grays websites:

1. Message Board for graysath - the only messageboard. Very few posts. And I don't know how they chose the title.
   
2. Grays Athletic Guestbook - the next best thing. A few messages.
   
3. Grays Athletic - this is the only website
   
4. Grays Athletic club details - from The Pyramid Portal, a non-league football website, including basic ground directions
   
5. Grays Athletic map - in the highly unlikely event that we ever need to visit Grays, here is a map from the Tooting and Mitcham site
   

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