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FA Cup Preview: Will the Os be buzzing or will Harborough Town give us a sting in the tail?

It’s FAC1 time, and the draw this season has thrown up a new opponent for us in Harborough Town from National League North, 75 places below us in the pyramid. The Bees ran Reading close in FAC2 in 2024/25 so we’ll need to have our wits about us in order to prevail. We take a look at our opponents from a club and team perspective.

06.11.26, 16:01 Updated 06.11.26, 17:38 4 Minute Read

We are already out of the Carabao Cup and on Tuesday have to beat Barnet and overturn an unfavourable goal difference to make it through the group stage of the Jersey Mike’s Trophy.

Given our owner and chairman stipulated that a cup run would be welcome this year, the FA Cup is looking like our last chance to fulfill their wishes. We’ve always been a bit shaky against non-league opposition and have had a fair few first round exits alongside our more exciting cup exploits, so it is to be hoped that the lads carry on where they left off against Cambridge on Saturday and we make light work of this one.

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Doris Fothergill

Doris has been involved with the Orientear for many of its forty years, variously providing match reports, articles and opinion pieces, managing the database, acting as FSA liaison and editorial team member. Doris is from Yorkshire, so she's never short of an opinion and is always right. Up the Os!

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