For the second year in a row, the second period of overtime in a national final was cruel to Reading United in a 1-0 loss to Flint City Bucks in the USL League Two championship on Saturday night.
Where it was an injury when head coach Alan McCann had used all of his subs that led to a 4-2 loss in a 9v10 scenario last year, it was a straight red and a questionable penalty call that set up the lone goal of the evening in the 110th minute for the Bucks in front of a crowd of 7,198 people at Atwood Stadium in Flint, Michigan.