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Enhanced picture special - Shorey makes his historic debut for England

The official Reading website has lots of photos from Nicky Shorey’s recent England debut at Wembley against Brazil.

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Shorey for England

Reading defender, Nicky Shorey made his England debut and the OS states became the first Reading player to play for England in 100 years.

I missed the game as I was in Scotland and for some reason I can’t imagine, they didn’t want to show an England friendly. Talking to my friend tonight, it appears that he had a solid game, doing the simple defending well. However, Brazil played quite narrow and he didn’t have someone directly against him.

He made some forward runs but the couple of times he overlapped Joe Cole, he wasn’t passed to. We had a short discussion on whether this was because Cole didn’t want to pass to Shorey or Cole just didn’t want to pass to anyone.

As we’ve sung all season.  Shorey for England!  What a week for the guy.  He got married the next day and then had to cancel the honeymoon to travel to Estonia with all the lads.

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News in briefs (cos it is the holiday season)

  • Reading to extend ground capacity Excellent (providing we stay up) but they must do better with the public transport otherwise the traffic chaos will just get worse.
  • Steve Sidwell joins Chelsea I can understand the attraction for Steve but I hope he is prepared for a lot of time not playing much football. As much as an admirer of Sidwell as I am, I don’t think he is good enough for Champions League, so will be very much a squad player
  • Congratulations to the Murtys on the birth of their daughter.
  • Shorey in England B squad Not good enough. What I mean is that he should be in full squad :)
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