Just listened to Stoke game on radio and I find myself staring at the new league table and pinching myself. Yet another tremendous away win and three precious points in a week that had three games in six days including two away and another seven points from them, brilliant. That is now a third of the season gone, we sit six points clear of third and a staggering twelve points clear of seventh. The really weird thing is mind, though we are clearly playing well and winning we are not yet in top gear, there is so much more to come particularly up front and that really is exciting. Sounded like we could have easily wrapped the game up in the last ten but poor finishing let us down, similar to what those of us who were there witnessed at Hull on Tuesday night. Now with two home games coming up another great chance to push on yet with another mind boggling 31 games left plus our infamous history leaves no Reading fans feeling remotely confident of an adventure in the so called promised land next year. If I was Coppell I'd play the reserves against Sheff Utd in the cup midweek and rest every single player in the first team but who am I to advise him. Let's just enjoy the moment and also look at the Premiership table and see how amazingly well Wigan are doing, that gives us all hope.
Nick Newbury

I am sure that this is not the case but it seems that some referees want to keep up their quota of cautions (to 'impress' a watching assessor?). In the case of Kitson's goal celebrations, surely a quiet word of warning would have been enough but I suspect that this particular referee wanted to commit a 'high profile' act in a game that was never going to boil over.
Martin Horne