by Northern Git »
22 Apr 2007 18:12
Well I hope you lot who went and the team are ashamed of yourselves. Your behaviour towards that paragon of virtue Diouf was disgraceful. The physical approach that Reading adopted to the graceful, one touch passing, football team that is Bolton was appalling. The tender souls of Bolton are not happy with you lot. Me? Never been so proud to be a Royal!
From the Boltonbanter site
Just got back from the game. Absolutely fuming with quite a few things:
1) I can accept being beaten by a better team (ie Man Utd took us apart) but Reading were plainly and simply AWFUL. Certainly worse than Watfords display at the Reebok to put it in perspective and for the vast majority of the game they were simply trying to contain our attacks and hope for a draw.
2) The referee (Howard Webb) and linesmen. - Awful performance throughout and particularly bad in the first half. Missed foul after foul on our players (esp Davies) and gifted Reading with free kicks that were nothing. The worst decisions however
- Nolan was poleaxed just before the half time break with an absolutely ATROCIOUS challenge (in many people's books a straight red but certainly a yellow). What did he do? He blew for half time and led the players off the pitch with hardly a backward glance at Nolan who still needed urgent medical attention and had to be helped off the pitch!
- 2nd Goal - Clearly (and I do mean CLEARLY, no debate about it, you could have seen it from one of Pluto's moons clearly) OFFSIDE.
- The first Reading goal. A penalty - I'm unsure at this stage but it looked dubious.
3) Reading's approach - Can't contain them so foul them off the park. 3 injuries in the first half - 3 substitutions. The team that started (Diouf really though) would have helped convert our many chances. The Diouf injury may not have been intended at first glance but on slow motion replays the player flicks his studs up back into the chasing Diouf.
4) Readings FANS: Disgraceful and disgusting. In the same league as the BWFC fans who sing about the Munich disaster. Now Diouf isn't anyone's favourite player and I was the first person to criticise his spitting and cheating BUT he clearly isn't playacting when he required a stretcher to take him off the pitch. The Reading fans who abused him goaded him as he was taken off - shame on you. Where is your basic sense of humanity?
They say what goes around, comes around. Lets hope it does with Reading because you should be embarrassed with the conduct of your fans, your team and finally with the fact that you even got ONE point out of that game!
And
Having been to the game, I can agree 100% with your comments.
For all their plaudits this season, I thought that certain Reading players and the majority of their supporters came across today as nasty and bitter.
The more that I see of Stephen Hunt, the more i'm inclined to believe that he intentionally left his knee in when challenging Petr Cech on the opening day. Firstly, he needlessly shoulder charged Nicky Hunt off the pitch when the ball had already gone out for a throw. Then he had a go at Dioufy, in the hope of getting a reaction. When Michalik came onto the pitch, he tried the same thing again. He kept tugging at Lubo's shirt whilst waiting for a free kick to be taken. Lubo merely swatted him away, like a fly. Then he ran straight into Jussi and finally earned himself a booking.
As for their supporters????? Well imho to barrack someone as they are being stretchered off is bang out of order. Dioufy may not be everyone's favourite player, but to stand up and yell abuse as he is being carried off is an absolute disgrace.
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Why are we surprised at Reading's style? They knew every trick in the book. Every touch they went down and the ref obliged. It seems to me that refs are coming in with an agenda to cut out Bolton's "physical approach" - but not the opposition's. They’re style was identical to Crystal Palace when Coppell was in charge. The media don't criticise him because he is intelligent and soft spoken.
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He took it well. European football is now well within our grasp. Come on URZ!
