By Reading FC

Take a look at some images of our current crop of players and staff doing battle with Manchester United in the past...

We all know about Paul Ince's connections with Manchester United. But we thought we'd trawl the photographic archives to see some of our current crop of players in action against the might of Manchester United in years gone by.

His son Tom has featured against United as a Terrier, Irish duo Jeff Hendrick and Shane Long have previously done battle in Manchester, while Joe Lumley helped to knock United out of the FA Cup last season as a Middlesbrough keeper.

There's a no nonsense tackle from Alex Rae on Paul Scholes and Mark Bowen up against Clayton Blackmore. And of course the likes of Hunt, Leigertwood and Gilkes have history if playing against the north-west giants in blue and white hoops as Royals...take a look at our gallery above!