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L-W-D-L-W
By: Prederick |
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If you haven’t guessed or don’t know, the title of this post is Reading’s form since I last posted. Five games, seven points from a possible 15. Not exactly scintillating stuff, and the obvious reason why Reading are three points out of the automatic promotion places and only a point ahead of Burnley.
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Fantasy and Reality
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It’s a Saturday, late in the season. Reading are playing Tottenham. The game’s been back and forth, end-to-end stuff, with Paul Robinson and Marcus Hahnemann tested multiple times. As the game ticks past the 80 minute mark, a loose ball falls to the feet of Stephen Hunt, who confidently strides past Tom [...]
Know Your Foe (Middlesbrough)
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There’s a interesting piece in The Guardian that I’d direct you all towards, taking on what is wrong at the Madjeski. A lot, obviously, and and as I stated previously, Coppell is pretty much justified in thinking that the only way he can stop the rot is to change all 11 players on the [...]
To Know Thine Foe (Aston Villa)
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It’s Saturday morning, and in a few hours time (by which I mean Sunday morning of course. Don’t write previews at 4:00 AM kids), a ball will be kicked at the Madjeski and Reading will take on Aston Villa. And while Kevin Doyle is bullish about the fixture, most others aren’t. No [...]
Category: Game Previews7 Days After 7 Goals
By: Rob | 1 Comment
So I apologize for not addressing last weekend’s goalfest in a more timely manner; I wasn’t paralyzed by shock at the abysmal performance of our back line and keeper, I was merely busy with dull non-soccer duties. At this point, there’s little left to say…obviously it would’ve been much more fun to blog about had [...]
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 [...]
Rip It Up and Start Again
By: Rob | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Manchester United v. Reading Preview
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One day of the Premiership in the books, and an entertaining day it was. Despite being displaced from the local pub so they could broadcast a rugby match in half the bar for six people, much fun was had (and my fantasy team got off to a ripping start to boot). The good form of [...]
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