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Posts Tagged: "Reading"
The 200% Pre-Season Previews: Reading FC
At this time of the year, there are a lot of us trying to quantify the unquantifiable. The start of the new football season sees a frantic dash to predict...
Match Of The Past: Reading FC
Reading FC will start their second spell in the Premier League next season having emerged from the pack in the Championship to lift the title by a single, solitary point....
Match Of The Week: Reading 3-0 West Ham United
The last week or so in the Championship have acted as a sudden reminder to anyone who may have thought that the two automatic promotion places might already have been...
Those We Have Lost: Elm Park, Reading FC
The next in our series on the lost homes of British football comes from Reading, where Reading FC left Elm Park for The Madejski Stadium in 1998. Our thanks go...
The Twohundredpercent Play-Off Jamboree: Reading 2-4 Swansea City
Swansea City stand firm as an example of how much the fortunes of a football club can change in the space of just a decade. They had been promoted from...
The Twohundredpercent Play-Off Jamboree: Cardiff City 0-3 Reading (0-3 Agg)
For so much of this season, Cardiff City’s promotion to the Premier League has had a feeling of the inevitable about it. Perhaps it was the arrival of Craig Bellamy...
Match Of The Midweek: Everton 0-1 Reading
For all of the surprises that this season’s FA Cup competition has provided, the quarter-final draw has a wearyingly familiar look to it. Unless Leyton Orient can cause one of...
Match Of The Week – Reading 0-2 Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough are trying to find an instant route back into the Premier League but, after a strong start, the wheels have come off their wagon a little of late. Their...
In Praise Of… Burnley Football Club
This evening’s Championship play-off semi-final between Reading and Burnley was a battle between old and new. In the blue corner were Reading, snatched from the jaws of obscurity by John...
The Championship – The Final Day
They’ve been stumbling, lurching and tripping on their shoelaces, but Birmingham City are a Premier League club again. As it turned out, it was a surprisingly untense day. Kevin Fahey’s...
The Promotion Jitters
Burton Albion lost 2-1 at Ebbsfleet United in the Blue Square Premier on Wednesday night. There was, in itself, nothing extraordinary about this, but this defeat marks the third successive...
The Goal That Never Was
It was, by any standards, the most bizarre moment of the football season so far, and it’s difficult to imagine that it will be bettered. During Saturday afternoon’s match in...