First away game for me in a long time. Don't think I will bother going again for a while. We were utterly devoid of creativity, bar one decent cross which resulted in our goal. Their equaliser infuriated me. A full back who played regularly under Van Gaal at United decides in injury time to complet...

First away game for me in a long time. Don't think I will bother going again for a while. We were utterly devoid of creativity, bar one decent cross which resulted in our goal. Their equaliser infuriated me. A full back who played regularly under Van Gaal at United decides in injury time to complete...

Their player was through on the keeper so what has Gorkss got to do with it? Gorkks was a few yards behind the play This is the bit that gets me from Adkins; 'Okay, the referee gives a penalty, but there's no way it should have been a red card' If it was a penalty then it has to be a red card. Why ...

Their player was through on the keeper so what has Gorkss got to do with it? Gorkks was a few yards behind the play This is the bit that gets me from Adkins; 'Okay, the referee gives a penalty, but there's no way it should have been a red card' If it was a penalty then it has to be a red card. Why d...

Floyd has taken a hell of alot of of stick on this thread, and whilst he is a miserable git, I can't say I disagree with any of the key criticisms he makes. Adkins should not be trying to deflect the heat onto the officials for one of the most obvious red cards you'll ever see. No options at all for...

My hero...we can only but dream that one day this would happen.....and......he's a good a manager as he was player Where do I start with this........ I'll just deal with the last bit. He was a bit part player for his entire career with us. One that was never considered good enough to hold down a fi...

I must be missing something here as this seems an utterly bizarre signing; we release 2 geriatric (in football terms) left backs and replace them with another one who has barely played a game for the last few seasons. I am completely indifferent to this signing and fully expect him to get injured wi...

Reading 0 v Man City 5

Curle 42
Rosler 62
Flitcroft 80
Beagrie 88
Dickov 90 +3

The ball in the air 80% of the time
Games utterly devoid of footballing quality
Hot-potato-style panicking on the ball from players with just a modicum of ability
Steve Claridge's insights

Reading 0 - QPR 3

Ferdinand 64
Penrice 77
Sinclair 90+3

7/10 - enjoyed that!

Sunderland and QPR are the best examples of why spending shed loads of money doesn't gurantee success. Both could be relegated with us this season with similar points tallys. Swansea and Wigan should be the examples for us- spending a little bit of money wisely, but first and foremost, having a foot...

He has looked good lately. Hopefully we now have a manager who will put a left footed winger on the left flank................

It was an unfortunate atmosphere yesterday. Normally i would never condone the antics of the crowd, but yesterday the vast majority seemed to be the end of their tethers with this managerial regime The sarcastic clapping of the Leigertwood substitution and the booing was more aimed at the manager th...

LOL @ Gunnarsson being part of our initial 25 man PL squad. " That's why you're going down " 'Good Honest Pro' = Absolutely Pony as a footballer Really don't understand all the love this guy gets- he did a job for a number of years, but was never more than a bit part player. Just :lol: at...

Emerse Fae, Marek Matejovsky, Daniel Carricco and Danny Guthrie. All signed with hope and optimism, in the belief that they would transform us into a competitive premisership team. Apparently none of them have been good enough for us. Tells me that the club is cluless in how it integrates any player...

thought he played really well, worked incredibly hard, and caused them some real problems. blinkered h8ers will h8 him no matter what he does. As someone who has watched about 2 games all season on tv and has no agenda with anyone, i thought he was pants. He's too slow to react to anything and the ...

stickywhisky http://socsportslive.com/pg/18

this is the best one i've found

Ta for that- excellent feed!

In summary:

Fair score
Not a penalty
We defended well in the main
We were atrocious with the ball- particularly Ledg, Akpan and Kebe. Simple passes miss placed time after time. That breakaway at 1-0 down when Kebe tried to slide in Pog, who then fell over, summed us up going forward today

We move on

Celestene Babayaro
Winston 'Best paid reserve player in the world' Bogarde
An ageing Mark Hughes
Nigel Spackman
Jesper Gronkjaer's pace