Not the best time to start a blog. When there are no games for a week. I’ve let Paul get a headstart with all his United related guff. I thought I would start with some random Reading related news.
It seems that Jens Lehmann hasn’t gained any more friends in the Reading camp, with Stephen Hunt saying he “would have a fight with his own shadow”
Lehmann is clearly a very agressive person. I saw this at first hand earlier this season when Arsenal came to Reading. It was shortly after the Cech incident and Lehmann clearly wanted to make a fight out of it. Hunt followed a ball down, and Lehmann came out for it. Hunt ducked out of the challenge completely, when he was probably entitled to go for the ball. Lehmann still went for Hunt, wagging his finger at him.
Incidentally, I met the first non-Chelsea fan to think that Hunt did it on purpose at the weekend. He was from London, so maybe the mind bending waves had caught him too.
In the latest Arsenal clash, Leroy Leta got revenge on Lehmann in great style. At a corner, Lehmann comes out to shout incoherently at his defence. Then he backs off towards his goal still moaning at Gallas and the others. Leta sees him coming and adopts the classic schoolboy pose and bends over to “tie up his shoelaces”. Lehmann goes over backwards, looking a complete fool. To complete the trick, Dave Kitson is on the scene, offers his hand to Lehmann and pulls him to his feet. Leroy wanders away, and Lehmann is completely fooled into thinking it was an accident. I bet he exploded if he saw the replay later on TV.
In other not very actual news, Steve Sidwell may still stay or go in the summer. We knew this in August and nothing has changed. In the premiership, non-news really is news and I wish they would only report on things that have actually happened. Anything else is opinion or speculation, and if the story contains neither opinion or speculation or actual fact, then it is a complete waste of space.
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