Neil Ryan’s MU18s are also in Spain for a mini-tournament being held in Cadiz, as they begin their preparations for the FIFA U17 World Cup in Qatar this winter. This is quite a relevant point. Garcia is 32 days too old to play in this year's U17 World Cup. So if England are using the U18 fixtures t...

Royals and Racers Arsenal U 18’s v Reading U 18’s
Arsenal 1 Reading 0 14 mins
2-0 25 mins
H-T 2-0
3-0 55 mins
4-0 88 mins
F-T 4-0

Meant to post at the time, but never got round to it. In this game back in April, all 4 Arsenal goals were scored by 15-year-old Max Dowman, who made his Premier League debut this week.

Some news from the U16s. Last week they beat Spurs 3-0 and yesterday beat Leicester 4-0. Games (so far) have been played on the next pitch to the U18 match. Also, I think some second half U18 subs have played the first half for the U16s.

Noel Hunt interview after the match - "If you run as fast as you can for 4 or 5 seconds, you can cover 50 or 60 metres."

Before last night, the 60m world record was 6.34 seconds, and that wasn't on grass.

Sunday’s friendly (10th) away to Maidenhead Utd KO 2pm is being played at Furze Platt senior school Furze Platt road SL6 7NQ. The pitch is 3g Match OFF. Cancelled by the home team. According to Maidenhead's website they played (and lost) a friendly at home to Bournemouth Sports on Sunday. Can't tel...

Refuse to give The Mail money but if anyone can bypass the paywall: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14966609/Reading-Premier-League-Rob-Couhig-AI.html I also refuse, and I'm keen to stop others needing to pay as well.... For a disgusting right-wing rag, I'm surprised that their h...

As a gentleman of leisure I went to the victory celebration and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was much better in person than on the TV, particularly the open-top bus. It's interesting that most people wanted to see the players, but what I really wanted to see was the trophy. All good practice for next ...

Selsey have withdrawn from the league, so it's down to 11 clubs.

As a gentleman of leisure I went to the victory celebration and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was much better in person than on the TV, particularly the open-top bus. It's interesting that most people wanted to see the players, but what I really wanted to see was the trophy. All good practice for next y...

U18s had been down to play Thatcham away today, but that game got called off. Instead our U18s played Brentford at Loughborough this morning and drew 1-1. And I think that the U16s drew 2-2 with Kingstonian U18s today, but that's not for definite. Lots of scholarships signed in recent weeks, so migh...

I ran Gittens' details through a compensation calculator (had to guess some elements) and it showed Reading's fee as €300k.

Tyler Adjei was in the England U15 squad for the recent tournament in Croatia. He started the first and third games, and got an assist at some point in the week. You may have seen recent articles about Cristiano Ronaldo's son - this was the same tournament. Also Adjei and at least 4 other Reading pl...

Brogue Okin-peters 24 years old in 3 months. Never had a loan never played for the first team. Why have we offered him a new deal?

He was playing for the U18s two seasons ago. You have his age wrong.

And you couldn't even type his name right, either.

Forward Tyler Adjei is again in the England U15 squad. This is for the Vlatko Markovic tournament in Croatia. Group games are on 13, 14 and 16 May.

Abraham Kanu is in the Sierra Leone squad for the AFCON U20 tournament. First game Sunday 27 April. Their last group game is on 6 May so he'll be back in time for any Reading play-off campaign.

Garcia - came on as a 94th minute substitute in England U18's first game. Started the second game but was injured after 31 minutes (whilst he was on the pitch England went 2-0 up against France but it ended 2-2). Wasn't involved in the third game. Kanu - started for Sierra Leone U20 in a 4-1 loss to...

Kanu has actually been named in Sierra Leone's U20 squad, unless there was a late change (which there might be as one of the defenders in their full squad pulled out today). The relevant games are friendlies against Ghana U20 and Morocco U20. The AFCON U20 tournament runs from 26 April, so I doubt i...

Tuma had a hamstring injury, but appears to have been at training in the last couple of weeks.

Basil Tuma called up for Malta, so that's three. Incidentally, Shrewsbury made it clear that it was Reading who had called the game off.

Four Of Clubs FA Vase S-F draw
- ties on Sat 5th April - Hartpury may get switched to the Sunday for Rugby
Andover New St v AFC Whyteleafe
Hartpury Uni. v Whitstable

FA Vase semis are still over two legs. Fixtures above are the second legs. First legs are 29 March.