Division One Football Next Year!

This result means: Luton are relegated, Watford are relegated, the other remaining relegation place is now between Milwall and Portsmouth. READING ARE SAFE! Yep, with one game of the season left our survival is guaranteed: we will be playing our football in Division One next year!

At half time the 2-0 score line in Readings favour was no more than they deserve. Reading had most of the earlier pressure before Wolves started to come into it a bit more. Quinn had two early chances, once putting the ball over the crossbar and the second time putting wide when he should have done better. Nogan had a chance to give Reading the lead before the breakthrough came.

Reading took the lead midway through the first half, after 23 minutes, when Martie Williams scored. Hopkins played a great ball through the middle, the keeper came out, fell over, and Williams regained his feet. Then from 8 yards out he put the ball into an almost unguarded net!

One-nil to the R's and McGhee sulks! Yes! But better things were to come. Gooding almost made it 2-0 before the other half of the management team did with just 5 minutes of the first half remaining. Reading won a corner on the left. Gilkes floated the ball into the middle, Nogan flicked it on, and Quinn rose in the middle to head the ball into the net. Reading fans on IRC went mental, and I'm sure everyone in the ground did. Survival looking a certainty!

Half Time and 2-0 to Reading! YES!!

With 3 minutes left Quinn did his usual touch, and banged in his second goal of the game. Quinn had a neat one-two with Nogan before spectacularly volleying the ball into the back of the net. Reading fans go mental. Reading go 3-0 up!

Reading looked secure in the second half as Wolves through everything at us. A dedicated passionate performance when it really mattered. Martin Williams had a blinding game, the best he's played since he arrived at Elm park, Gilkes was in his match winning form, and Quinn picked a great time to score another two vital goals taking his tally to 16 for the season. A great result and a great team performance!

At the final whistle the excitement spilled onto the pitch as about 150 fans celebrated but soon returned to the terraces after dissaprovement from the rest of the ground. The players came out and following Jimmy Quinns lead lobbed their shirts into the crowd. The team were brilliant and the crowds performance matched it. But everyone will be celebrating, a great result. For a moment the rest of the league season can be ignored - Royals are brilliant.

F*** off Mark McGhee, what can it be, but a fat Scottish B*****d and a s**t football team!

Graham

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