I'm not knocking Jobi but to say he set up our first goal is bordering on the embarrassing. This is something he's done a lot this season, just pinging a ball in the box without looking to see if any Reading players are there. It came off TWO Villa defenders on it's way to the net. No Reading playe...

I am a firm believer in supporters being able to - within reason - say what the damn hell they like if they pay good money to watch. Equally I am at liberty to say that those of you who ironically cheered and jeered at Leigertwood's subsitution having earlier sang the name of Danny Guthrie - who, r...

Perhaps we need someone like Matt Mills to give the crowd the finger for most of them to realise what the players think of their abuse. They're allowed to abuse Jobi and Ledge with every insult under the sun, but Jobi isn't allowed to show his displeasure for their abuse of someone who has been a he...

15 years ago this weekend was the last serious demo I can remember when we lost to bottom placed Port Vale in a crucial tier 2 relagation game - Terry the taxi was gone in 10 days. That day we were outplayed by a footballing side - along similar lines to Wigan and although today was not as bad, Vil...

It's been a disastrous Feb/March but with two games against big sides coming up, and then a huge April, there's still a chance we can stay up. It's difficult to see us getting anything at Old Trafford or The Emirates, but stranger things have happened. Arsenal, in particular, are under pressure at h...

Only thing worse than the performace today was our embarassingly terrible support. The barracking of Ledge (in particular) and McAnuff over the last few months has been disgusting. Then booing the substitutions of Akpan (who I thought had a poor game apart from the assist) and Hunt (as if McD was ta...

People saying 451 is too defensive are talking rubbish. The formation and your attacking threat depends entirely on how you play it, along with the personnel. If you play it with THREE holding midfielders then yes, it is too defensive. If you play it as we did against Sunderland at home, then no it'...

soggy biscuit

Snowball It's going in but bends away

Damn you air resistance and mechanics of a football.

Brian keeps talking about where we've come from in the last three years and how well the players have done in that time. He needs to remember thought that not everyone at the club has been here for those three years. Whilst the three years talk might help to keep up morale of some of the 'old crew',...

McDermott, I love you. But what the heck are you doing? You found a winning formula and as soon as you found a way to win matches you started making changes again. The winning team was this: REMEMBER? GK: Federici RB: Kelly CB: PEARCE CB: Mariappa LB: Harte RW: Kebe / Mcleary LW: McAnuff / Robson K...

I don't know what the issue with Guthrie is again now, but if Brian really cares about what's best for the club...need to play against Everton. Well that didn't take long at all. Oh Guthrie, he's Messi, Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic all rolled into one, it must be so difficult for him to be such a megast...

That was almost (Reading) career suicide by Brian Mac yesterday. I've always supported him, and will continue to do so, but if he's going to pick out the mistakes of players (e.g. Pearce) then he has to accept his own mistakes too. Yesterday I feared the worst when I saw how appallingly negative our...

The first 25 minutes or so was the best we've been all season (In that period of games). The 451 with the trio of McLeary-McAnuff-Kebe playing behind Pog worked beautifully and McAnuff is definitely the best we have in the squad to play that position, although the first goal came from him drifting o...

Looking ahead to the summer, and depending on the fortunes of our two clubs over the next few months, Gunnarsson is a player I would really like to see us try and sign. I've always been impressed by him since his Coventry City days. Good technically and physically strong too. Versatile player and co...

Ledge will be out of his depth trying to stop players like Mata, Oscar, Cazorla, Wilshere (but who wouldn't) and will look ponderous on the ball when he has these athletic, quick and mobile are snapping at his heels. But against players not in that class, Ledge is still capable of producing the good...

It's Aiden McGeady. You heard it here first. Anton's pulled a few strings out in Russia.

Maybe it was just me but I actually thought Kelly was pretty average. Saw him get pushed off the ball a bit too easily in the first half and then in the second half I thought he was slow to get out and try and stop the cross a few times as well as letting their wideman just run unopposed towards the...

People are actually talking about drawing a line, about when you should show a bit of respect for someone who carried on fighting to maintain a career at the top of his profession, despite a diagnosis which for many would mean that they would not even be able to carry out everyday tasks in their dai...

What a F*cking legend.

SPARTA It's all about super Joe Mills.

Last I saw he wasn't even playing for Burnley. Although I agree, he was showing a bit of promise last year before Harte took over again.