{"id":315143,"date":"2026-10-27T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315143\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:44:22","slug":"fa-cup-meet-reading-city-the-non-league-club-known-more-for-food-than-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315143\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup: Meet Reading City, the non-league club known more for food than football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I said to the chairman &#8216;we need to jump on this because if we don&#8217;t then someone else will&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly afterwards, the Citizens added Thai red curry, noodles, spring rolls, pak choi and chicken balls &#8211; all served in a pizza box &#8211; to the matchday menu at \u00a310.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A picture of the food, cooked by chairman Martin Law, received more than 20,000 likes, and is now on sale at every home game at Reading City&#8217;s Rivermoor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of people hadn&#8217;t heard of Reading City before all this happened,&#8221; said Simon Johnson, manager of the Combined Counties League club, who are at Royal Wootton Bassett Town in the FA Cup preliminary round on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I said to the chairman &#8216;we need to jump on this because if we don&#8217;t then someone else&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-315143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}