News 2017/2018
64 articles · 1 Jun 2017 – 31 May 2018End of the Season: Now a Look into Preseason
The summer holidays don't exist for a manager, that can probably be more so said for Paul Clement who wasn't exactly handed over the finest squad from Jaap Stam at the…
Read more →Reading Safe As Disappointing Season Finally Ends
Reading finished their hugely disappointing season with an impressive result at Premier League bound Cardiff City. The 0-0 draw would have been enough to keep Reading up…
Read more →Royals Set To Lose At Cardiff But Stay Up
Reading enter the final day of the Championship tomorrow knowing that there is still an outside chance of relegation, after a hugely disappointing season. The Royals…
Read more →Reading Still Not Safe After Late Collapse
If Reading manage to hang on to their Championship status next week they can count themselves very lucky indeed after today’s inept performance. All the shortcomings of…
Read more →Three Games To Secure Championship Football
Reading hit the road this weekend hoping to take some of their home form with them on their travels. Since Paul Clement took over as Reading boss after the departure of…
Read more →Paul Clement Asks Royals To Step Up For Final Games
Paul Clement described Reading’s 2-2 draw against bottom side Sunderland a missed opportunity and has issued a rallying cry to his players to step up and secure their…
Read more →Clement Keeps His Unbeaten Home Record
With so much at stake for both sides the tense and cautious first half of this match was to be expected. However when Liam Kelly put Reading ahead from the spot after…
Read more →Reading Paying Third Highest in Agents Fees
The Championship table is upside down, at least according to a new report that has revealed the staggering amounts paid to agents in the Championship. While the Royals…
Read more →Reading Get First Saturday Home Win Of Season
Reading finally managed to win at home on a Saturday for the first time this season, and not a moment too soon. Defeat would have put Reading in deep trouble following…
Read more →Chris Gunter's Chinese Fan Club Is Just Fantastic
It's fair to say Chris Gunter is a Welsh football legend. He's the nation's all-time appearance holder and has yet to even hit his 30s. But still, it's somewhat of a…
Read more →Paul Clement Starts With Vital Win
A brilliant solo goal from Sone Aluko, two superb saves from Vito Mannone and a magnificent 'backs to the wall' team defensive effort, gave the Royals a long-awaited…
Read more →Confirmed: Paul Clement Is New Reading Manager
Former Swansea City manager Paul Clement has been revealed as the new Reading manager following the sacking of Jaap Stam earlier this week. In a statement released by…
Read more →Jaap Stam Sacked
Jaap Stam has been sacked as Reading manager after a terrible run of form, which has seen the Royals drop to 20th place in the Championship and just three points away…
Read more →Another Point Towards Safety
Although Reading once again failed to secure the win they so desperately need, the point gained today was achieved with a significantly more positive performance.…
Read more →A Point Closer To Safety
It was abundantly clear this was a game neither side could afford to lose as Reading decided to slug it out against a team far better equipped for the direct physical…
Read more →Another Defeat And More Defensive Incompetence
Reading's defensive performance plummeted to new depths of incompetence this evening and by their manager's own admission were let of lightly in only conceding three…
Read more →Reading Entertain In Home Draw With Derby
Ironically a game in which both sides deprived of two experienced strikers, Martin and Kermorgant for Reading, and Vydra and Nugent for County, produced a flurry of…
Read more →Struggling A Little Bit At Home To Be Honest
Reading host Derby County this weekend, as they continue to look for their first home win on a Saturday of the season. Home fans have had little to get excited about all…
Read more →Could Stam Face The Chop And Who's Next?
Jaap Stam has called for unity from Royals fans following the 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest, but it feels as though the door is getting ever closer for the Dutchman.…
Read more →Late Forest Goal As Royals Fail To Win Again
There was more disappointment for Reading fans on Tuesday night as the Royals conceded a late goal at Nottingham Forest to leave with just a single point. The Royals…
Read more →Stam On Brink After Another Home Defeat
Any flicker of optimism generated by a convincing away win during the week at Burton, and the signing of two experienced Championship players before the transfer window…
Read more →Martin In And Beerens Out On Deadline Day
Reading completed the incoming loan signing of striker Chris Martin from Derby County, and saw Roy Beerens leave the club, as the January transfer window closed. The…
Read more →Tommy Elphick Arrives On Loan
Reading have completed the loan signing of centre back Tommy Elphick from Championship side Aston Villa. Elphick will stay with the Royals on loan until the end of the…
Read more →Brentford Take All Three Points
Reading came off second best against an impressive Brentford side to slide closer to the wrong end of the table. Brentford had the look of team destined for a play-off…
Read more →A Win At Last: Royals Through To Round Four
Reading eased their way into the Fourth Round of the FA Cup courtesy of a Jon Dadi Bodvarsson hat-trick to end the sequence of eight games without a win. Having a…
Read more →Replay Winners Travel To Carlisle Or Sheffield
The winners of Reading and Stevenage's FA Cup third round replay will travel to either Carlisle or Sheffield Wednesday in the fourth round of the competition. Like the…
Read more →Stam Hopes FA Cup Provides Some Respite
Reading take a welcome break from a hugely disappointing Championship campaign so far with a Saturday afternoon trip to Stevenage in the third round of the FA Cup. 45…
Read more →Dismal Defeat Against Bottom Side Birmingham
The loyalty of the Reading fans is being tested to the limit with this latest dismal performance from their team. A second successive home defeat at the hands of teams…
Read more →Fresh Pressure On Reading As Birmingham Visit
It's not been a good Christmas for Reading fans after Jaap Stam's side managed to pick up just a single point from three festive fixtures. Before Christmas got underway…
Read more →Burton Gifted Three Points
Reading marked the occasion of their 500th first team fixture at the Madejski Stadium with a dismal defeat against struggling Burton Albion. Having enticed a huge crowd…
Read more →Reading Let Lead Slip Against Cardiff
Paul McShane almost snatched a victory for Reading in the dying seconds of stoppage time but they had to settle for a point when for eighty minutes they looked set to…
Read more →Comfortable Win Puts Reading Mid-Table
Reading continued their recent good run of results with a convincing three goal win at home to climb into a more comfortable mid table position. Edwards gave the Royals…
Read more →Reading Fail To Score But Earn Point
Although Reading only managed to pick up a point at home against an equally ambitious Wednesday side there are signs Reading are moving in the right direction. The…
Read more →Reading Need Win As Wednesday Visit
Reading's league games continue to come along like buses after the International break as the Royals attempt to haul themselves away from the Championship relegation…
Read more →Reading Beaten As Wolves Return To Top
Reading paid the price for their inability to take their chances as Wolves returned to the top of the league with an efficient away performance and two well taken goals.…
Read more →Reading Back In Action As Wolves Visit
After the International break, the Royals return to Championship football this weekend with table toppers Wolverhampton Wanderers visiting the Madejski Stadium. After…
Read more →Royals Deliver Halloween Treat
The gloom which surrounded the Madejski Stadium following a poor performance and a defeat at the hands of Middlesbrough on Saturday was dispelled with an emphatic…
Read more →Reading Slump To Another Home Defeat
The Royals inability to find the net resulted in yet another disappointing defeat this time at home to a Middlesbrough side also in poor run of form. The stadium emptied…
Read more →First Half Goal But Still No Points
Reading's dismal start to the season continued today with another home defeat against an in-form City who chalked up their fourth successive away win. In a tight game…
Read more →Fans Hope For Different Approach Against Norwich
In form Norwich City come to Reading this weekend on the back of two straight away wins in a run of five league games undefeated. Ominously for Reading, the Canaries…
Read more →Another Defeat On The Road For Reading
Just three days after Jaap Stam asked negative fans to stay away the Madejski Stadium, it was business as usual as Reading dominated possession against Millwall but came…
Read more →Late Draw As Royals Continue To Struggle
Reading seemed destined to succumb to a third successive home defeat without scoring until Jon Dadi Bodvarsson came off the bench to salvage a point with a superb late…
Read more →Royals Limp Out Of League Cup
Swansea progressed to the last sixteen of the Caraboa Cup with a comfortable victory over a Reading side with insufficient fire power to mount any kind of sustained…
Read more →Reading Scramble Point At Brentford
Reading came away from Griffin Park with just a point, after another disappointing afternoon in the Championship. The Royals were perhaps lucky to secure even that point…
Read more →Reading Travel To Winless Brentford
Reading travel the short distance to Brentford this weekend hoping to improve on recent results. Both Reading and Brentford have suffered slow starts to the season, with…
Read more →An Evening With Trevor Senior and Jamie Cureton
The Reading FC Former Players' Association will soon be hosting an evening with two goal scoring club legends. On Thursday 5th October, at the Tilehurst British Legion…
Read more →Bristol City Take All Three Points
The disappointment of losing to a late goal is always hard to take, but even more so when expectations had been raised by a good away performance at Birmingham and new…
Read more →Transfer Deadline Day Rumours
Despite completing the big money signing of Fulham forward Sone Aluko earlier this week, rumours continue that Reading might conduct some more business before the summer…
Read more →Aluko Arrives From Fulham
Reading have wrapped up the signing of Fulham's Sone Aluko for what is being reported as a huge 7.5 million pound transfer fee. It is likely some of that figure will…
Read more →Young Reading Side Overcome Millwall In Extra Time
Reading finally overcame a Millwall side offering little more than stubborn resistance with goals in extra time from George Evans and Sam Smith to reach the Third Round…
Read more →Improving Royals Travel To Preston
The season has got off to a frantic start as the Royals travel to Preston North End this weekend for their fourth Championship fixture of the season. The game could give…
Read more →Victory Over Aston Villa - Things We Learned
Reading arrived at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday evening looking for their first win of the 2017/18 campaign. After a disappointing draw against ten-man Fulham at the…
Read more →First League Win As Royals Beat Villa
The Royals chalked up their first Championship victory of the season against an expensively assembled experienced and talented Villa side with a dominant performance…
Read more →Reading And Villa Look For First League Win
The Royals face Aston Villa at the Madejski Stadium tonight in a fixture that features two sides off to a slow start in the Championship. Both sides have picked up just…
Read more →Leandro Bacuna Signs From Aston Villa
Leandro Bacuna has completed his move to Reading from Aston Villa, signing a four new contract with the Royals. The midfielder completes his transfer just days ahead of…
Read more →Royals Fail To Beat Ten Man Fulham - Things We Learned
Reading faced their first home test of the 2017/18 season on Saturday as they took on Fulham. The Royals were subjected to an away defeat against QPR last weekend and…
Read more →Modou Barrow Confirmed As Fourth Summer Signing
Reading have completed the signing of Swansea winger Modou Barrow for 1.5 million pounds. Barrow, who is Reading's fourth signing of the summer, spent three seasons with…
Read more →Reading Head To QPR As New Season Starts
The new Championship season kicks off this weeekend with Reading travelling to QPR for their first game of the new campaign. QPR finished just two points away from…
Read more →Four Cans Of Carabao For Moore
Reading have rewarded central defender Liam Moore for his fantastic defensive performances last season with a new four year deal to stay at the club. Moore's contract…
Read more →Royals Try To Hang On To Swift
John Swift has signed a massive five year contract with Reading FC as the club look to either keep hold of the player long term or at least cash in should he move on in…
Read more →New Signing Vito Mannone Heads To Holland
Reading have signed Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone for two million pounds to replace the outgoing Ali Al Habsi. The Italian goalkeeper appears to be a straight swap…
Read more →Ali Al Habsi Departure Confirmed
Reading will be continuing their hunt for a new goalkeeper after Ali Al Habsi completed his move to Saudi Arabia, where he has signed a three year contract with…
Read more →Stam Extends Contact As Williams Joins Huddersfield
After a year in charge of the Royals, Jaap Stam has signed a new contract that will keep him at the club for a until the summer of 2019. Stam, who had a year left on his…
Read more →New Season Fixture List In Full: Royals Face Tough Start
Reading's fixtures for the new 2017/2018 season have been released this morning and see the Royals kick-off with an away trip to QPR on Saturday 5 August. Reading face a…
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