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Liverpool Loss & Portsmouth Preview
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Well, I dillied and dallied my way out of making a timely post about Tuesday’s 2-4 Carling Cup loss to Liverpool, so I’ll keep my thoughts brief. While the obvious media focus was on the Fernando Torres show, I came away reasonably satisfied with Reading’s effort. For one, the fearlessness of last season was back, [...]
Carling Cup Preview: v. Liverpool (+ Sidwell Loan?)
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For the second consecutive year, Reading draws Liverpool in the third round of the Beer Cup, and last year’s game was an explosion of goals: a 4-3 loss at Anfield that saw the Royals go down 3-0, then 4-1, before putting in two late goals to make the Scousers sweat. This time around, the two [...]
A Sex Tape? Now We’re Bloggin’!
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Oh, those magical words every blogger longs to hear: “sex tape.” That was the pleasant good morning news that greeted me, courtesy of Offside Overlord Bob’s morning update. Here I was planning on spending today’s post discussing how best to pronounce Liam Rosenior, and Leroy Lita provides me with the story of this blog’s young [...]
Reading 2 - 1 Wigan: You’re Welcome
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Looks like my experiment to resuscitate Reading’s season through better blogging is off to a good start. How else do you explain the Royals scoring their first two non-set piece goals? How else do you explain a referee awarding a penalty to Wigan, then changing his mind? How else do you explain Marcus Bent missing [...]
Category: Game RecapsRip It Up and Start Again
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Well Reading’s recent fortunes and my blogging abilities have been directly proportional these last couple of weeks, to say the least. After successive 3-0 losses, one hoped that the international break would snap the Royals out of their funk, but a shockingly listless 2-1 loss to Sunderland Saturday has Reading in 18th, with an ugly [...]
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