Next Reading Manager: Press Conference @ 9:15

[Colin Cheeselog]

Carrico... could all fit nicely into a top championship team, playing top football.

Defo. From the 45 minutes we've seen where he continually gave the ball away, i'd say not only should we build a team around him, but we shoud extend his contract and make him club captain.

[scumbag]

Carrico... could all fit nicely into a top championship team, playing top football.

Defo. From the 45 minutes we've seen where he continually gave the ball away, i'd say not only should we build a team around him, but we shoud extend his contract and make him club captain.

[akranes]

Carrico... could all fit nicely into a top championship team, playing top football.

Defo. From the 45 minutes we've seen where he continually gave the ball away, i'd say not only should we build a team around him, but we shoud extend his contract and make him club captain.

Oh right my bad, I meant to write Leigertwood

[Royal Ginger]

Carrico for Jesus.

[CountryRoyal]

Carrico... could all fit nicely into a top championship team, playing top football.

Defo. From the 45 minutes we've seen where he continually gave the ball away, i'd say not only should we build a team around him, but we shoud extend his contract and make him club captain.

[Rollerbob]

Who's Carrico?

[akranes]

Carrico didn't even play that badly when he did.

[TBM]

Carrico didn't even play that badly when he did.

Bar failing to track back for the goal they scored

[shaka's shorts]

isnt reading only about 20 minutes closer to london?

Yes, but as I said earlier, he lived in Ascot when he managed Swindon and played for Chelsea. Perhaps he still does.

[onethirtyfour]

Mark McGhee?

[maffff]

Who's Carrico?

Michael Carrick's portuguese brother.

[Rollerbob]

Who's Carrico?

Michael Carrick's portuguese brother.

I wish!

[Barry the bird boggler]

I'm nipping out to William Hill to pile a load of folding on Ian Branfoot returning to Reading. It makes as much sense as Blanc and Enrique being in the betting stakes but could be more likely as he was at the Villa game.....

[Barry the bird boggler]

Some prankster on the Brighton board saying that talks have happened and it will be confirmed that Gus Pyet will be out next manager in the next hour or two.

Obviously sounds like cobblers to me, but you never know these days......

[BenSmith91]

Just seen Poyet in a Ushanka outside the club shop. He was smiling. Confirmed new manager.

[Royal Lady]

What is it with us being linked with possible racists....

From Wiki - but he was exonerated:

On 28 April 2011, French investigative website Mediapart released a story which claimed that the French Football Federation had been attempting to secretly put in place a race-quota system in order to limit the number of dual-nationality players in its national academies. Quoting a senior figure in the FFF, the organization was said to have wanted to set a cap of 30% on the number of players of non-white origin by limiting places the academies in the 12–13 age bracket.[21] On 29 April, Blanc, who, in the report, was claimed to have agreed with the decision to implement the quotas, held a personal press conference at the l'Hôtel Le Régent in Bordeaux, in which he also denied the report declaring that he had "not heard of such a project".[22] On the following day, after Mediapart announced that it had a taped audio recording of the November 2010 meeting, Blanc released a statement on the FFF's website in which he apologized for possible offending comments he made during the meeting, while also declaring he was misquoted and denying he was racist stating "I do not withdraw the remarks I made yesterday. I admit that some terms used during a meeting on a sensitive subject can be ambiguous, out of context, and, if in my case, I've hurt some feelings, I apologize. But being suspected of racism or xenophobia, which I am against all forms of discrimination, I do not support it".

Former national team player Lilian Thuram said of the allegations, "Initially I thought this was a joke. I'm so stunned I don't know what to say", while Patrick Vieira declared that the comments Blanc allegedly made at the meeting were "serious and scandalous". Blanc was defended by several former players, most notably his 1998 FIFA World Cup-winning teammates Christophe Dugarry, Bixente Lizarazu, Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly, and Emmanuel Petit, current players, such as Alou Diarra, and external sources, which included Pathé Diba, the president of L’Association Soutien aux Handicapés Africains (English: Association to Support Disabled Africans).[24][25][26] On 9 May, Blanc gave testimony at a hearing set up by the federation to investigate the quota matter. On 10 May, the results of the inquiry was revealed and Blanc was cleared of any wrongdoing by the French Football Federation

[Alexander Litvinenko]

What is it with us being linked with possible racists....

From Wiki - but he was exonerated:

On 28 April 2011, French investigative website Mediapart released a story which claimed that the French Football Federation had been attempting to secretly put in place a race-quota system in order to limit the number of dual-nationality players in its national academies. Quoting a senior figure in the FFF, the organization was said to have wanted to set a cap of 30% on the number of players of non-white origin by limiting places the academies in the 12–13 age bracket.[21] On 29 April, Blanc, who, in the report, was claimed to have agreed with the decision to implement the quotas, held a personal press conference at the l'Hôtel Le Régent in Bordeaux, in which he also denied the report declaring that he had "not heard of such a project".[22] On the following day, after Mediapart announced that it had a taped audio recording of the November 2010 meeting, Blanc released a statement on the FFF's website in which he apologized for possible offending comments he made during the meeting, while also declaring he was misquoted and denying he was racist stating "I do not withdraw the remarks I made yesterday. I admit that some terms used during a meeting on a sensitive subject can be ambiguous, out of context, and, if in my case, I've hurt some feelings, I apologize. But being suspected of racism or xenophobia, which I am against all forms of discrimination, I do not support it".

Former national team player Lilian Thuram said of the allegations, "Initially I thought this was a joke. I'm so stunned I don't know what to say", while Patrick Vieira declared that the comments Blanc allegedly made at the meeting were "serious and scandalous". Blanc was defended by several former players, most notably his 1998 FIFA World Cup-winning teammates Christophe Dugarry, Bixente Lizarazu, Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly, and Emmanuel Petit, current players, such as Alou Diarra, and external sources, which included Pathé Diba, the president of L’Association Soutien aux Handicapés Africains (English: Association to Support Disabled Africans).[24][25][26] On 9 May, Blanc gave testimony at a hearing set up by the federation to investigate the quota matter. On 10 May, the results of the inquiry was revealed and Blanc was cleared of any wrongdoing by the French Football Federation

It would have been a lot easier to mention Gus Poyet's public support for his compatriot Luis Suarez recently.

[WoodleyRoyal]

5pm press conference at the AMEX

[Royal Lady]

Are you winding us up??

[The Rouge]

strange - drifted to 2.56 on betfair now