Mark White's own goal was executed in one of the first games I ever saw for Reading. It was terrible to watch. Whitey, however, went on to be a superb left back and Maurice Evans said if it hadn't been for injuries he would have played at the top level for his entire career and I agree. A wonderful ...

Absolutely awful for Feds. Can't imagine how he is feeling. Well done to everyone including him. I really thought we were going to get humiliated. There's a lot more to this team than I have given them credit for.

I do apologise if the subject of our assistant manager has appeared elsewhere, in which case please delete my post. However, does anyone know exactly what Keen's role is (in short, I'm saying that I don't really know what an assistant manager does or how much influence they have)? Keen comes with qu...

I'm not sure why people would say "not Dolan" (I'm not even questioning Adkins going). Reading has had a lot of success promoting from the inside and Dolan's record with "Reading youth" is outstanding: not a record that could possibly have been achieved without considerable skill...

Half time team talk demonstrates that claims Bullivant has "lost the dressing room" are, to say the least, premature.

Egg on the faces of Stuart Beavon's detractors tonight.

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Errr....what?

I don't think I've ever read two completely different versions of the same game on the same thread quite as I have this morning. It makes it most confusing to get a handle on our performance for someone who lives several thousand miles away and can't get to games. Some seem to think "not bad at...

Mmmm...I agree that we won't see the premiership for some time. It's more likely we'll drop a division on current form. But I honestly doubt we would lose that many fans if future success looks an increasingly unlikely event. I started watching in the 70s and saw some really, really bad Reading team...

I thought this article by Gary Neville about how the art of defending is diminishing was worth a read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... -back.html

Mmmm..... I too was baffled by that Guthrie comment. Where on earth is the evidence for such a view?

One of the reasons I liked the McGhee side so much was the occasional Wenger-resque ability to counterattack. Apparently in Spain counterattacking is practically a dirty word. I am hoping with Gareth, Jem and Williams back we may be able to attack and break away at speed. Right now we are as about a...

Williams seems to have a fairly lengthy piece of prose tattooed on his arm. Anyone know what it says?

I don't think I have ever heard anyone be anything but practically in awe of how good Hughes is. It's amazing that he is still at Derby really. Kudos to him if he stays with Derby if (or more likely when) they get promoted to the Premiership.

Oh dear, sounds like a dreadful performance. The post-match analyses could have been written for so many of the games I attended in the 1970s and 80s but then we kind of expected it and, with a few exceptions, most of the players then would by their own admission never have been good enough to perfo...

Love the wife's make-up.

If Holloway is wearing a tangerine waistcoat Millwall will win, without I think we will scrape a draw.

Norwood and Kuhl sounds like a good partnership to me: potentially. I really hope they are given a decent run together. I don't think we will get promoted this season and, to be honest, I kind of hope we don't. For me what would be a wonderfully successful season would be if the academy products wer...

On the subject of Gylfi he is getting some pretty gushing praise for his performance - well, on the BBC anyway - for Swansea yesterday. We all know how good he is and I think, and I really, really hope for him that this season he proves just how good he is and how well equipped he is to play at the ...

Well, I dunno, I'm no expert but that looked like an outstanding save to me regardless of whether there are plenty of keepers who would have made it. There are also plenty who wouldn't have done so.