Also, this tactic was decided by the Reading Marketing team as footfall at the stadium during the offseason is low, this being a problem of it being out-of-town stadium, and with no club shop in the town centre. Releasing the shirt closer to the start of the season were we have the home preseason f...

We’ve never released a kit after the season has started, so it’s never been late. I'm sure the away kit has been released after the season has started on several occasions. Released, as in on sale at the shop. You may well be right for one occasion on reflection. However the notion that we release ...

Good, hope Evans stays get real, he is going. The Sunderland chairman has tweeted that the bid has been accepted, and the Sunderland Echo says this: The bid for Evans has been accepted, with the player expected to undergo a medical once he returns from Reading's pre-season tour in Austria. Tough ti...

I do like the look of Pelle Clement. Played left mid when he came on, couple of great turns and a good driving run which he couldn’t finish. Definite potent there. Good to see him improving. For a long time I just couldn't see what he offered. He didn't seem creative, nor able to defend. He didn't ...

So, in essence, rather than the ref making an instant decision rightly or wrongly, he now gets to stop play, think about it and then make a decision rightly or wrongly. Therefore all that’s happened is the game gets stopped unnecessarily while it takes longer to establish the same controversial dec...

So, in essence, rather than the ref making an instant decision rightly or wrongly, he now gets to stop play, think about it and then make a decision rightly or wrongly. Therefore all that’s happened is the game gets stopped unnecessarily while it takes longer to establish the same controversial dec...

How is the Mereoak Park & Ride? Looks an attractive option but always unsure how many busses run/how often on a matchday? It's generally decent, but it does need the guy who runs the P&R down there kicking the backsides of the council(?) who run the buses every single week . He knows that a...

paultheroyal Open up that safety gate too. More so next year with the South Stand option.

I'd rather they put the stairs back, albeit a lot wider so they were dangerous.

It is really annoying having to walk all round the stadium and the hotel to get to the Mereoak bus queue.

First class insight from the ITV team - 17% of goals so far have been scored in the last 15 minutes of games, showing that there have been a lot of late goals.

So that's 17% of the goals scored in the last 17% of matches then.

Remember a few years back teams like Mansfield occasionally turning up in the south section of the football league trophy to balance up the numbers, which gives an idea of the balance of north/south in the footy league. Mansfield is proper northern. In the days of Division 3N and Division 3S, I thi...

So with three-team groups, and two teams out of each group going through, FIFA are going to need to do something to stop a Germany v Austria situation arising. The current four-team groups mean they can just have the final games for all group members kicking off at the same time, but this is obviou...

I mean, yeah, if you want to look at a still it's ambiguous, but the video couldn't be clearer that he's caught and impeded. the video, from that angle, doesn't show where the contact started. This isn't a conclusion make by looking at that still. That's just the only replay I could find (I made th...

If play stops you can't go back once play restarts. Also, are we now saying that the Peru penalty that was missed wasn't a penalty!? Because it was blatant, his back foot was clipped out from under him as he went to step with it to open up the space for a shot. I think he was going down before the ...

Sure this has been covered before, but how far can you go back with VAR? Say someone's offside, but it's not given, goes out for a corner, then they score from the resulting corner. Can you go back to the initial offside? Or would it get picked up before the corner's taken? If play stops you can't ...

Is that Cueva actually of English descent, only way I can explain the true awfulness of that penalty. Justice was done, as I really can't fathom how that was deemed a penalty. You had a play already going down, who, half a second before he actually hits the deck, manages to stretch a leg out enough...

IF he has a technique which means his is able to send keepers the wrong way consistently (or he can tell which way the keeper will dive, and puts it the other side), then it's not random. If it was random then the keeper would go the right way as often as the wrong way. random as in the stats would...

Looking at where they were were scored is almost useless. You need to look at where they were saved, and try to aim for the less savable areas. I'm simply suggesting that for many penalty takers (Eden Hazard a good example actually) their technique is to send the keeper the wrong way. I can't find ...

Sutekh While there are no British referees at the World Cup there is at least one British born official there...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44354819

I do find it funny how we slate our refs all season long for being useless, yet get annoyed that none of them are at the world cup.

I know it doesn't speak much of techniques, but if you mapped all of the scored penalties in world cup shootouts, I'd venture they are in the majority in the same areas. But send the keeper the wrong way and it goes in. Point I am making is that even for those above (Pearce's an obvious exception, ...

Over 2500 go to Enfield Town to see Karpatalya beat pre-match favourites Northern Cyprus on penalties after nervy (ok, a bit crap) 90 minutes. Apparently the final was meant to be at Crystal Palace (athletics) but they couldn't secure the venue. As great as the tournament has been, the trophy presen...