Reading is home to Premiership football and rugby teams.
He then tasted Premiership football for the first time in the 2000-01 season, as the club was relegated in its first top flight campaign since 1996.
The following years proved a turbulent time for United as they chased the ambition of Premiership football.
Given how busy the area is, and how fanatically the Maltese follow Premiership football, it would seem rather unlikely.
After that short taste of Premiership football, he returned to France and joined Strasbourg.
I felt it necessary to be kind to Bolton Wanderers in this their critical year of Premiership football.
Swindon never adjusted to the pace of Premiership football, winning just five games and becoming the first top division team in 30 years to concede 100 league goals.
Premiership football will have started, and will be aggressively promoting itself.
These are vital counterweights to all that Premiership football, the preserve of young men, or family money pull-outs which men dominate 3:2.
Then, as now, one of Sky's most important unique selling points was its position as the major provider of Premiership football.