Ciss Platten is 93 years old and is a staunch Reading fan.
Platten will be the only Reading fan at Wembley who was alive when the then Biscuitmen last reached the English FA Cup semi-finals. In 1927 they lost 3-0 to the eventual winners, Cardiff City, at Molineux.
On Saturday, 88 years on, the club – now the Royals – revisit the last four, and Platten will be there.
She told the UK’s Guardian that her club’s opponents in this year’s showpiece, Arsenal has added extra spice to the tie. She is not the greatest admirer of the north London team nor of their manager, Arsène Wenger, a notoriously poor loser. “We call him ‘Arsène Whinger’,” Platten says.
Why the particular hostility to Arsenal which dates to the 1920s?
Blame her father, Arthur. “I didn’t really know about football then but dad used to stand by the window on a Sunday morning checking his Pools coupon,” Platten says. “And he’d say: ‘Bloody hell, Arsenal have let me down again.’
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