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Welcome To French Pulp Fiction: Mercs, Murders & Manchette

Bored of celebrity hardbacks and and repetitive thrillers? Step into the macabre world of French pulp fiction...

1 Comment Tony Moon

Southampton's Jason Puncheon: 'Adkins Could Keep Reading Up'

One of the surprise stars of the Premier League season, the midfielder with an eye for goal talks being a nomad, jeggings, his old gaffer and the season so far...

Topman Generation

Gervinho Will Be Vital To Arsenal's Strong Finish To The Season

Hey may've become the butt of jokes in recent months, but the Ivorian will be crucial to Arsenal securing a top four finish and a return to the Champions League.

3 Sam Drew

Nigel Adkins: A Southampton Fan On The Man To Keep Reading In The Premier League

In Adkins Reading have got themselves an excellent manager, who can galvanise the team into trying to perform the greatest of great escapes and even if this fails, he'll still have Reading bounce back and become an undoubted long term success.

Michael Turner

The Title's In The Bag, Time To Add The FA Cup

Let's pop the Champagne early, we aren't throwing this lead away. Now title 20 is all but secured, it's time for United to secure FA Cup glory for the first time in nine years.

1 Josh Butler

RECENT Reading

Hunt's Earned A New Deal & 5 Other Things Learnt In The United Loss

His contract expires at the end of the season and while he didn't fire a shot away all game, the Reading striker has done enough to earn a new co...

Tom Greaney

Manchester United Will Crush Hapless Reading In Pursuit Of Title Number 20

United traditionally reach their peak around this time of year and with yet another title in sight, Reading could be on the end of a hiding. They...

3 Amman Kallumpram

Reading: Zingarevich Has No Understanding Of The Club Or Football History

Reading owner Anton Zingarevich's classless firing of his team's manager leaves the club in a dangerous position.

5 Tom Greaney

Reading: Brian McDermott Failed An Impossible Task He Almost Made Possible

Too much was never going to be enough for the demanding fans and an arrogant owner, but having handed McDermott dodgy tools in the first place, w...

Tom Greaney

It Wasn't McDermott's Fault: No Manager Could Make A Five Star Meal Out Of Reading's S**t Sandwich

Sacked by Reading, but it's hardly McDermott's fault that Reading are in the position they're in. Basing your team around Adam Federeci and Jay Tabb was unlikely going to end well...

8 Comments Tom Greaney

Beating Reading's Great, But Villa Must Overcome QPR Next Week

A cliched six pointer it may've been, but Villa need to add to the win over Reading with victory against QPR next w...

Ben McAleer

Everton Need Last Season's Jelavic Back If They're To Take All Three Points Off Of Reading

The Croatian continues to fail to hit the target and Everton will need Jelavic to find his shooting boots once agai...

Jim Keoghan

Manchester United Prove They Have The Depth To Match Their Treble Aspirations

With the second leg against Real Madrid looming, Ferguson sent his reserves out against Reading and the likes of Na...

Josh Butler

Jonathan Rendall: The Greatest Gonzo Writer You've Never Heard Of

Jonathan Rendall recently passed away after a hedonistic life, and if you've never read his work then you're in for...

19 Comments Austin Collings

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Adam Le Fondre: Why The Reading Man Deserves An England Call Up

With goals against Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea already this season, the suggestion Adam Le Fondre can do the business for England agai...

Tom Greaney

Chelsea: Three Points At Reading Will Be Little Respite In A Nightmare Season

Knocked out of the Champions League, stuttering in The Premier League and Eden Hazard's ballboy tap: this season has been one of the worst on Che...

3 Emma Bung

Arsenal Target Stoppila Sunzu: One Of The Best Defenders In The World & The 2012 World XI

Arsenal & Reading fans may be disappointed to hear that they have been linked with a defender they've never heard of. They needn't be...

10 Rob Brown

Manchester United Must Become Boring Again If They Want To Stay Top

We may've beaten the Royals in emphatic fashion, but I won't be able to rest comfortably until I see the powerful Serb back in the heart of the U...

0 Josh Butler

Who Needs Bent When You've Got Benteke?

Villa need a striker who can play with his back to goal, bring others into play and grab a goal. On Tuesday against Reading Benteke did all three and won us the game. There's just no need for Bent anymore...

Jon Startin

Everton: The Spirit Of Profilgacy Has Departed Anfield And Made Itself Home At Goodison

Last season Liverpool couldn't hit a barn door, cue much amusement for Evertonians. After battering Reading, Sunder...

1 Comment Jim Keoghan

Walcott Needs A New Deal But Eisfeld Is The Real Deal

Very much in the spirit of things, Arsenal put on a Jekyll and Hyde performance away at the Royals, but finally sec...

11 Comments Michael Keshani

Why Rio Ferdinand Is Right To Protest Against Kick It Out's Toothless Campaign

Far from a publicity stunt, the refusal to wear "Kick It Out" T-Shirts was a valid protest against an organisation ...

11 Comments Richard Lewis

Inside America's Toughest Jail

Shanks are on the menu, but it's not lamb. Step inside the US's scariest cells and get up close and personal with t...

1 Comment Shaun Attwood

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Premier & Football League Opening Day As It Happened. Sort Of.

New signings galore, weather you could strip Ian Dowe's face with and the prospect of Paul Merson turning into a blancmange on live TV. What's no...

Owen Blackhurst

Jermain Defoe: A Tottenham Fan On What Reading Can Expect From The Pint Sized Hitman

Experienced, prolific, available; Reading would be foolish not to sign Jermain Defoe...

Ben McAleer

Pavel Pogrebnyak: Everything Reading Fans Should Know About The Fulham Star

Reading have offered £13million and are prepared to smash the wage structure for the Russian striker - here's why it's a cracking idea.

2 Harry Dillon

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Skagboys Reviewed: As Blackly Funny And Grimly Entertaining As Trainspotting

Trainspotting was the most defining novel of the 90s, and now Irvine Welsh has returned with Skagboys, an origin story for the original tale. But...

9 Tim Relf

A Guide To Promotion With Charlton's Chris Powell & Reading's Brian McDermott

Two exciting, young British managers have secured Charlton Athletic and Reading promotion. They are what's exciting...

1 Comment Joe Hall

Norwich City: The Example That Newly Promoted Reading Should Follow

Reading are coming up, they could get it horribly, horribly wrong, or they could follow Norwich City's example...

Sam Drew

Reading: How Their Russian Billionaire Made The Championship Quake

Reading are going up thanks to their benevolent billionaire. Here's how it happened...

14 Comments Tom Greaney

Southampton vs Reading: 4 Key Battles That Could Decide The Title Race

Premier League football will be all but confirmed for the winner of Southampton vs Reading this weekend, and the ma...

1 Comment Jack Hyom

Seven Things We Learned From Southampton v Reading

Reading beat Southampton in a top of the table clash, but both teams are still odds on for promotion - here's seven things we learned from last nights game.

1 Tom Greaney

Southampton Greatest XI Vs Reading Greatest XI: Who Would Win?

Ahead of tonight's top of the Championship clash, we take a look at each club's all-time greatest players to see who would come out victorious.

2 Sabotage

Nellcôte Revisited

In the summer of 1971 Clarrie Cooper lived at Villa Nellcote, Keith Richards' fabled mansion in the South of France where The Stones recorded their masterpiece, Exile on Main Street. Here Clarrie has a chance meeting with her old schoolfriend, Anita Pallenberg.

1 Geoff Cush

Kebe's Key For McDermott: Reading v Birmingham Preview

Birmingham may be unbeaten in six but Kebe and Church will prove too much for them against Reading at the Madejski.

2 Comments Tom Greaney

Nottingham Forest vs Reading: Why Andy Reid Is Key To Forest's Revival

Despite a scrappy first half peformance, and some decidedly sloppy play, does Steve Cotterill's positive attitude a...

3 Comments David Hart

One Kick From Dream Land: Memories Of The Reading v Bolton Play-Off Thriller

A few things keep me awake at night; fear of death, the binmen that come at 2 am every ruddy night, and the 1995 Di...

3 Comments Tom Greaney

Rucking In Renaissance Venice - Football's First Hooligans

Forget the Headhunters, the Bushwackers and the Inter City Firm, 16th-century Venetians were the first to take up a...

Alan Black

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