Championship side Reading sensationally dumped Liverpool out of the FA Cup with a stunning 2-1 extra-time third round replay victory at Anfield. Shane Long scored the dramatic winner in the first period of extra-time, the Irishman heading in Brynjar Gunnarsson’s right-wing cross to break Liverpool hearts. The striker had earlier been involved in Reading’s injury-time penalty equaliser: Long was fouled by Yossi... 

Liverpool clung on to a 1-1 draw against Reading in an absorbing FA Cup third round tie at the Madejski Stadium. The Championship strugglers more than matched their illustrious visitors, and opened the scoring through Simon Church before Steven Gerrard’s 36th-minute equaliser. Neither side could conjure a winner and the consequence is a replay at Anfield for a place in the last 32. Having suffered an early Champions... 

RAFA Benitez insists the FA Cup is more important than ever to Liverpool as they battle to avoid a fourth successive season without a major trophy. Having fallen way off the pace in the race for the Premier League as well as being eliminated from the Champions League, the FA Cup represents one of Liverpool’s last hopes of bringing silverware to Anfield this term. They face a tricky third round date away to Reading,...