Royals feel the blues
I never thought I’d see my two favourite football clubs, Reading and Barcelona, mentioned in the same sentence together. The link, of course, is Chelsea, whom Reading narrowly lost to (1-0) on Saturday. Chelsea will be playing the Catalan club on Wednesday.
Reading once again proved just how good they are and that the Premiership doesn’t faze them. Mourinho was at his whinging best. Referring to Cech’s concussion:
The Cech one, the challenge is a disgrace. He is lucky to still be alive.
Right. If you say so. About the second concussion the Special One said:
Carlo I think was knocked out as a consequence of the way he hit the ground, but a knee coming at Petr like that, at such speed - the boy was even laughing afterwards.
It’s not nice to see injuries on the pitch, but this does mean that Chelsea will be fielding their third-choice keeper against Barcelona this week.
Read the BBC report.
Matt Brady on October 15th 2006 in Reading Football Club
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football lover responded on 16 Oct 2006 at 7:23 am #
As my name indicates im a football lover in general with no ties to any team in particular but have been following Steve Coppels leadership skills and readings rise….I was travelling and happened to catch the Chelsea v/s Reading match on tele….unfortunately it wasnt much of a match between 2 “Premiership Quality” sides….it was more a Champions v/s street ruffians type of game….the way reading played just confirmed for me what many say…basically that in football if u dont have quality…just use force….Horrible tackles…no appologies just laughs!!! Mebbe Reading should be in the championship or lower…Just hoping you guys get relegated…You lost one fan
Matt Brady responded on 16 Oct 2006 at 11:53 pm #
With the exception of the bigger clubs (and especially in the cases of Arsenal and Liverpool) all Premiership sides play this way. There is little beauty to be seen. Players joining English clubs from overseas often say that playing in the Premiership is a bruising experience. So it’s a bit unfair to say that maybe Reading should be in the Championship. Reading is where it belongs and will remain so next season.
Ian responded on 17 Oct 2006 at 7:59 pm #
Matt, I wouldn’t take too much notice of that nonsense.
In my opinion, and most other people who know much about football, Reading have played some excellent stuff this season that belies their status as Premiership newcomers.
I was at the Chelsea game and although they had marginally more chances they in no way outplayed the royals for most of the match. It was definitely not a case of Chelsea as the aristocracts against the Reading cloggers - it was much more evenly matched than that.
Also, the Hunt challenge was clearly accidental.
football lover responded on 19 Oct 2006 at 3:18 am #
Clearly accidental u say….hhhmmmm well replays suggest that he lunged for the ball when it was in the keepers hands…..Hunt must wear glass beads for eyes if he got Cechs head instead of the ball….
As i said before if u aint got quality play with batons….aka Readings modus operandi. FULL STOP