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Well Thank God For James Harper
By: Prederick |
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Big win. Big, big, big win. No, it doesn’t move Reading out of the bottom three, but it stops the rot, and gives us that most necessary of things, hope. We’re not doomed, we’re in a dogfight with five other teams.
Was Reading lucky? Yes, pretty much. Boro were [...]
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Well, That Sucked (Reading 1-2 Aston Villa)
By: Prederick | 1 Comment
Obviously, it’s not quite time to hit the panic button, but I’d like to think the protective cover has been removed.
Reading were second-best for all of the 90 minutes, and would’ve lost 3-0 if not for Gareth Barry opting to gift the crowd with a game-used ball. Villa clearly were (are) a [...]
Category: Game RecapsA Boring Win (Thank God)
By: Rob | No Comments
How dull was the Reading-Derby match this weekend? For a while, I thought even Match of the Day wasn’t going to bother to show highlights. But boring is good, I’ll take boring, coming as it did on the heels of a little 11-goal match you might of heard about.
From what I could glean from MOTD2’s [...]
Category: Game Recaps7 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
By: Rob | No Comments
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, [...]
Reading 2 - 1 Wigan: You’re Welcome
By: Rob | 2 Comments
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 Recaps120 Minutes in Swansea
By: Rob | No Comments
It sounds like this post should feature Matt Pinfield, but sadly, it does not. Reading needed two hours to eliminate League One team Swansea from the Carling Cup yesterday, finally notching a Leroy Lita goal in the 105th minute. Not exactly the most inspiring of performances, on paper.
Paper’s all I have to work from, since [...]
Category: Game RecapsBolton 3 - Reading 0: Yikes
By: Rob | 1 Comment
Well, the first game of the year I didn’t get to watch, and it looks like that was a good thing: spared myself a lousy start to my weekend. I was hoping to get a download of the game (or at least of Match of the Day) before I commented, but my usual back-alley dealer [...]
Category: Game Recaps0-0 at Old Trafford: Drawin’ Ugly
By: Rob | 3 Comments
So I realize being a fan of a team like Reading means I should be overjoyed at a nil-nil scoreline on the road to United, and truly one can’t sanely ask for a better start to the season with this schedule. But I have to admit to being a little disappointed with the team’s play [...]
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