MR. CYNICAL

Tinpot Royal Or just get rid of International football

I'll go along with that.

But how would Infantino become beat friends with murderous dictators and sex offenders then?

He's a bit like Colin - someone we love to hate when managing our opposition but a decent guy and very good, knowledgeable professional when he's not. Certainly very knowledgeable about making illegal payments to players and tax fraud. I think that for clubs like Stevenage, they have an inevitable ...

Maybe bringing in Rino frees up selling Savage in January?

We made plenty of signings. Just not the right ones. Not Couhigs fault - JJ/Hunt/Carey must take responsibility there As I’ve posted before, and maybe I’m naive, but I assume at well-run clubs planning for the transfer window and identification of potential replacements should we lose key players w...

What did suprise me was the timing.....could it be they have someone already. I didn't expect it so soon. I saw a comment on Twitter (yes, I know), observing that the lack of mention of an interim manager suggested they had somebody already lined up. And, following that logic, presumably therefore ...

We're a relatively big club in league 1 and for a lot of teams playing us we're a scalp they what to take and raise their game. Are we though? A third of the league are ex-PL clubs, and three of them were more recently in the PL than us. We don't have a history of winning much, we don't have a larg...

On the Grass really has just become a completely meaningless phrase now hasn’t it? Be nice if journos didn’t just accept that as an answer Contact makes a bit more sense - guessing it’s still a couple of weeks min for Paudie I assume 'on the grass' means out of the gym and actually kicking a ball a...

Home to Brentford in Womens FA cup 3rd qualifying. They are tier 5 same as us. Tie confirmed for Sunday 5th October KO 2pm at Arbor Park home of Slough Town FC. It’s £4000 to the winners- £1000 to the losers. That's crazy money for that level! for perspective the Men's EFL League Cup prize money is...

Doesn’t surprise me - most of my school mates have ended up in London, or moved to uni and stayed there. Admittedly, most of my school friends weren’t Reading fans, but I can imagine mobility towards London is high.

Mark McKeever I remember him playing in the 4-0 win away at Stoke (I thought he scored two, but the website says only one), and I thought he was going to tear up the league, but he quickly disappeared into non-league. Looking at his Wikipedia page , I read why: "However, over the following week...

I usually listen to the prematch chat on BRB, and it always cuts out for me on Sounds.

Are you in the States? In the UK, the Berkshire feed usually cuts out a few minutes before three, to be replaced by a general Saturday goals programme. (I think it's this one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099jr69.) Very occasionally, I think someone forgets to flick a switch, and the Berkshire ...

I liked him. Called himself Pélé. Wasn't his real name. It's almost like I can't quite believe he was ever real. And someone I've never forgotten, but I reckon many will have done: Ulysses de la Cruz. I remembered his goal, the long run from one end of the pitch to the other, but I had forgotten th...

A lot of our fanbase travels in from outside Reading.

Only £5 for kids, OAPs and students. I was still paying a fiver into my 20s

There must be quite a few people who were regulars in the last few years, but declined to pay a lump sum up front to the club. Might not mean larger crowds, just a different mix of ST versus match-day ticket holders in the crowd.

I assume that if it ever comes to having to negotiate compensation with a club whose manager you’ve just poached, it probably doesn’t help your case if you’ve gone on record several months earlier with your plan to do it. And whatever names Couhig had in mind in the summer doesn’t mean any of them w...

Could Camara's issues be related to flying to Africa and playing two games? (I know cabin pressure affects athletic recovery, but not for how long afterwards.) Did we have a big clear out of the sports scientists and physios under Dai? Perhaps we're still a bit threadbare in the back office? Or perh...

£1,000 fine and no ban, according to the commentary.