Archive for October, 2007

Doyle goal celebration ban - Is Kingsley in the Dock again?

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Terry
at October 11, 2007 in kingsley. 1 Comment

When we saw the headline Doyle goal celebration ban we were worried that Kingsley was in trouble yet again.

But no, it is Kevin Doyle’s knee slide that is banned as it could cause him a serious injury. And with the injury list mounting back up (Doyle has played right midfield on occasion so should be worried that the curse may strike him) a self inflicted knee knack is the last thing that is wanted.

In fact, Kingsley has got the official all clear to continue to mob Reading goal scorers

However, Dillon has given Doyle the all-clear to bundle Kingsley. He joked: “Kingsley’s okay to dive on him, though.”

And quite right too. Kingsley is only getting revenge after Shane Long attacked him last season.

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Steve Coppell’s Managers Job - 4 years old today.

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Terry
at October 9, 2007 in steve coppell. 0 Comments

Four years ago today, the BBC announced that Steve Coppell was the new Reading manager

He takes over with the Royals in mid-table after a run of just one win from six league matches under caretaker boss Kevin Dillon.

Arise, Sir Steve of Coppell. Thank you very much for the last 4 years. They have been fantastic.

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Doyle is back as Reading sink Rams

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Terry
at October 9, 2007 in Premiership, Reading and Reviews. 0 Comments

Reading 1 (Doyle 63) Derby County 0

We got Row B seats in the East Stand for this game and my son really enjoyed being so close to the action and also in amongst the louder section of fans. However, being so close to the pitch made it much harder to follow patterns of play in the game, and indeed the way Duberry often punted the ball high into the air, I spent much of the game looking up.

The game started with most of the play at the away end. Reading had three clear chances, 2 for Hunt and 1 for Doyle before Murty hit a shot that clearly was handball for a penalty (on the replays in MOTD2 anyway; couldn’t tell where I was sitting). It wasn’t pretty but at least Derby never looked like scoring which was a bit improvement over last week.

Second half and it was still mostly Reading, but they weren’t getting very far. The number of freekicks messed up by Shorey and Rosenior reached double figures, and eventually Rosenior was replaced by Jonny Oster. Whilst Oster himself didn’t change the game with any individual piece of skill, this was the turning point in the game. I think it was the fact we had a proper right midfielder on the pitch.

Harper took the ball right from a throw in, passing to Murty. Murty came forward, whilst Oster took the left back wide, Murty was able to find space to put in a cross. The ball came across the Derby defence (taking a deflection I think) and finding the head of Kevin Doyle. Doyle guided the ball to the far post, and after taking an seeming eternity, the ball beat the keeper and was in the net.

I was hoping Doyle would come our way, but instead he enjoyed a celebration with Kingsley. Good man.

Kingsley celebration

Derby pushed forward after going 1-0 down but never troubled us really, getting caught offside more than once or twice. It was Reading that came closer to getting a 2nd as Oster had about half an hour to take a shot from about 7 yards out, but took a whole hour and was closed out.

Special mentions to
1) Dave Kitson. Tireless running and good all round forward play. My MOTD.
2) The bloke next to me for going on and on about how bad Dubbery and Gunnardson(sic) were. Whilst he had a point about Gunnarson, you should not barrack the players, do you want them to lose ?
3) Derby leftback, . Manages to handball twice (once for what should have been a pen) and boots the ball hard straight at John Oster and still doesn’t get booked.
4) My son for repeating a joke endlessly now doubt annoying everyone around us “Look there is Kingsley, lioning down”

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7-4

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Terry
at October 1, 2007 in Portsmouth, Premiership, Reading and Reviews. 0 Comments

Portsmouth 7 Reading 4.

How can you analyse a game like that? I’d run out space just listing the goal scorers. Instead I’ll detail the small bits and how I listened to the game.

I’d been helping out in the garden at my children’s school until around 3 when one of the teachers went to leave in the card. She is a ST holder and lives very close to the ground. She reported that we’d just conceeded. By the time I got home it was 2-0 and the BBC Berkshire commentary recorded how we were being totally overrun, picking out Murty and Gunnarsson as the major problems. I then heard we got one back, but no one was sure who had got it - if Rosenior’s shot had crossed the line it was his, otherwise Hunt had got the followup (it was Rosenior’s goal)

Second half and I was still listening to BBC Berkshire. 2-2 through a howler from David James, 3-2 to Portmouth, then a penalty. Astonishing game. Shorey missed it and then it all went completely and utterly wrong. I think I stopped listening at about 5-2. I mean, how can you lose track of the number of goals scored in a game.

I put the telly and watched the equivalent of people reading out teletext for you, Sky Sport’s Soccer Saturday. Chris Kamara was going mental reporting on the game. Every so often, they report “There’s been another goal at Fratten Park!” and I’d think, we’ll 5-3 or 6-4 wouldn’t be so bad, but the goals kept coming. In the end 7-4, the highest aggregate Premiership game ever.

Later on I watched Match of the Day, and we were on first. How I wished we were the last game like usual.

You can’t analyse that except to say that whatever the question is, Gunarsson is not the answer.

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