Match of the day

[Wycombe Royal]

Why do people get so worried about our coverage in the media. With the exception of a certain Daily Mail over the Cech incident, it's been spot on.

So you think Oliver Holt got it right as well?

[Huntley & Palmer]

Is he the guy in the Mirror? I must admit, I haven't seen his viewpoint if so.

[Royal Rother]

On Sky Sports during the Wet Sham game, Tony Cottee was the man in the studio reporting on our game. He was totally bollocks and biased. He gave Reading little credit and moaned all the bloody time about Wet Sham. Not very objective reporting and I wondered why John Salako didn't do it instead.

Lol...is that supposed to be a joke? If the 'Salad' had done the commentary you would, as shown in the past, had a completely one sided report in our favour.

It is something that all stations do which really annoys me. They try as hard as possible to get the reporter for the game to have some affinity to one of the clubs. This only leads to bad, biased, reporting.

Salako is a legend, but is as biased toward us and Palace as much as Cottee is to West Ham, Thompson to Liverpool, McInally to Villa, Le Tis to Southampton etc.

I agree with that.

And TBM, isn't the fact (that I pretty much agree with too) that Kamara is one of the more unbiased of the ex-players, due to the fact that he never played for any of the Premiership teams? (I think.)

[tink]

as much as it frustrates me, the lack of coverage is surely a good thing. the expectation and the intrusion can be very unsettling for any team, least of all an inexperienced team, so we should be glad really that the media aren't camped outside our ground/training ground/player's houses trying to make up stories.

i do think however (and i may be way off the mark) that reading seem to have more than their fair share of matches on sky. cant be bothered digging up matches so far, but for the rest of the season:

Arsenal 5
Everton 5
Liverpool 5
Man u 4
Tottenham 4
Aston Villa 3
Blackburn 3
Reading 3
Bolton 2
Chelsea 2
Fulham 2
Man city 2
Newcastle 2
Portsmouth 2
Watford 2
Wigan 2
Middlesboro 1
West Ham 1
Charlton 0
Sheff Utd 0

[SpaceCruiser]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

[Stranded]

Read his post Spacey. He lists games to come not already shown. We have Everton, Villa and Spurs currently slated by Sky.

[londinium]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

I believe his table shows future games and not past ones.

Therefore he is not wrong me 'tinks'

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

Yeah, he's right, but isn't it about time we all got over this. Sadly we are little old Reading and until we win something significant that will be always be the case...

Besides it helps motivate the players....

Wise words YR, wise words.

To be fair MOTD coverage is shocking anyway and not just from a RFC perspective. The Guardian have been very favourable towards us as have the Times.

[biscuitsrus]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Doesn't the post say "rest of season"

[londinium]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Spacey in an 'I misread the post' shocker

[Gordons Cumming]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Spacey in an 'I misread the post' shocker

"Spacey's nitpicking bites him in the bum." shocker

[MartinRdg]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Spacey in an 'I misread the post' shocker

"Spacey's nitpicking bites him in the bum." shocker

[TBM]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Spacey in an 'I misread the post' shocker

I notice he's keeping quiet

LOL@the Liverpool fan

[Rawlie19]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Spacey in an 'I misread the post' shocker

I notice he's keeping quiet

LOL@the Liverpool fan

Not only did he misread the post, he then got the rest of our upcoming games wrong by missing one out completely.

[comeonthebiscuitmen]

When Murty retires he should be on Soccer Saturday.
Loved his slagging off of the Ref on 107 last night.
Good honest bloke - and not a prat like Merson.

[Adrian's Fool]

Most commentators have enthused about us this season, noticeably so, and even so much that when we have lost they have expressed surprise that we have not played to our best.

We really shouldn't complain - this is probably the most positive coverage we'll ever get - next season (should we stay up of course) we'll have lost all novelty value and will be lumped in with the Wigans, Blackburns and Fulhams of this world.

[Yorkshire Royal]

To be fair MOTD coverage is shocking anyway and not just from a RFC perspective. The Guardian have been very favourable towards us as have the Times.

Couldn't agree more. Goals on Sunday is far better even with that freaky face guy. And it has been good to see that we get decent coverage in most the broadsheets. And the way in which the club handled the whole Mourinho thing has also won us fans in the media.

And the "brutal attack" on Peter Cech has won us fans from all the other teams, considering Chelsea are the new Man Utd. It's a strange world we live in when most football fans want Utd to win the league... (over Chelsea anyway..)

[Arch]

When Murty retires he should be on Soccer Saturday.
Loved his slagging off of the Ref on 107 last night.
Good honest bloke - and not a prat like Merson.

The Murty-Gilkes show was great comedy last night. I've really been enjoying 107 since Gilkesy became the regular expert commentator. he's always upbeat, gives simple but relevant analysis and gives the opposition credit whenever it's due. It's a breath of fresh air to have a really pleasant and intelligent voice on the broadcasts. In keeping with the general trend at RFC.

[Royal Rother]

Tink, the following Reading games have been on Sky:

Man City (H)
Man Utd (H)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (H)
Tottenham (H)
Chelsea (A)

So that's six, which means your table is wrong.

The next games to be shown on Sky are:

Everton (A)
Aston Villa (H)

Spacey in Arsene "never admit you're wrong" Wenger moment.

[Bucks Dave]

I think the majority of Prem clubs are in the same position as ourselves, it's nothing personal. The Big Four of Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal and Liverpool get coverage way over the top while clubs like Blackburn, Wigan , Fulham, Bolton, Portsmouth, Reading etc etc get nothing like.

That's because the Big 4 tend to win the trophies and carry the interest of that part of the rest of the world that follows English soccer.

I think the vast majority of the coverage we do get is very complimentary (I loved the Independent's comment on the West Ham match that "Reading declared at 6") and the MOTD commentators are always commenting that we play "good football", something they never say about Watford for example. Motty goes bananas about us if we play well.

Perhaps we fans are over sensitive?