News and Views
Vastly Improved Reading Beat Luton
18 December 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
This was a vastly improved Reading home performance compared to their dismal failure against lowly Peterborough last week. There is still work to be done in terms of passing and movement, but from start finish Reading played with an intensity, energy, and resilience which brought the deserved reward of three points. READ MORE...
MATCH REPORT: Reading 3 Luton Town 2
Dismal Home Defeat
09 December 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
The frustration of watching my team 'underperform' from time to time is a consequence of loyalty. I'll get over it and be back for more next week, next season, and beyond. I always try to salvage something positive out of every game regardless of the result. My recovery from the disappointment of yesterday's performance was hampered by Leam Richardson's opening remarks in his in post-match interview. "We lost the game in the first five minutes..." was not at all an inspiring message. READ MORE...
MATCH REPORT: Reading 1 Peterborough 2
Savage Goal Earns Point
22 November 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
A contest between a team that is hard to beat, and a team struggling to score goals, was always likely to produce a draw, and that was exactly the outcome of a match dominated by Reading. Undefeated in their previous seven games United concentrated on stifling Reading with a pressing game and competing fiercely for long balls. Their game plan worked perfectly, taking a lead with slick break after twenty minutes through Benson. Reading have not been scoring freely all season and from that point it was always going to a tough assignment. Savage finally delivered the goal which produced the deserved equaliser ten minutes from the end, and it was goal worthy of earning a valuable point. An equaliser should have arrived much earlier with two good chances falling to Ehiobhatiomhan. READ MORE...
Andy Rinomhota Returns
12 November 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
Andy Rinomhota has re-joined Reading until the end of the current season after leaving his previous club Cardiff City when his contract expired in the summer.
Rinomhota has only previously played Championship football - for Reading, Cardiff City and Rotherham United and drops down a division hoping to find some of his previous form at his first professional club. After making his breakthrough at Reading in the 2018/2019 season he went on to make 139 appearances, scoring four times, before a move to Cardiff in the summer of 2021. He was initially a regular for the the Bluebirds until struggling to secure a first team starting place the following season, which led to him going out to Rotherham United on loan from February 2024 until the end of the season where he played 16 times.
Having worked his way up through the youth teams at Reading before success for the first team he remains a well known and popular player who will be widely welcomed back. Rinomhota was voted Reading's player of the season in the 2018/2019 season and won the same award for Cardiff in the 2024/25 season before his contract was not renewed after the club were relegated to League One.