strap Apropos nothing at all, take quick look at the relative costs of the starting XI's (and the league position at the time the games were played:
Sunderland (18th) £36,350,00 v Reading (19th) £5,600,000 - RFC LOSING
Southampton (18th) £10,000,000 v Reading (19th) £5,250,000 - RFC LOST (Southampton bench actually cost more than their staritng XI)
Reading (18th) £5,250,000 v Manchester United (1st) £145,600,000 - RFC LOST
Aston Villa (17th) £10,600,000 v Reading (18th) £5,250,000 - RFC LOST (Villa bench actually cost more than their staritng XI)
Wigan Ath (16th) £13,800,000 v Reading (17th) £5,650,000 - RFC LOST
Now I'm no rocket scientist, but when the likes of Wigan and Southampton field squads in excess of £20M, it is no wonder that we are where we are.
In fact Wigan's, (yes WIGAN's), squad had 10 players who cost more than £1M each in it.
Cloth cutting gets you only one place Mr Mad, only one place ...
As you know, I'm no fan of The Ego but we don't know who is to blame this time.
It is clear that McDermott was given some funds and largely wasted them on players who didn't suit him. He also said that he had all the players he needed but was that because he was leaned on? If he wasn't given the funding he needed then Anton and Madejski are spineless c*nts for not speaking out in McDermott's defence and admitting that he was deprived of the money he said he needed.
