David Taylor

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Reading
18 Jan 2036
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483 Edition

The Reading Chronicle

29 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings29 Oct 2035

A brace, and Alex Henderson takes the afternoon — 8.35

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alex Henderson provided it, and the 8.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match27 Oct 2035

Reading find a way past Exeter City

Exeter City made Reading work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout29 Oct 2035

Benjamin Hughes: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

The dugout29 Oct 2035

Luqman Aideed knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Reading, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad29 Oct 2035

The division's best last weekend was a Reading man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Nick Oyekunle was the best thing in any of them.

The dugout29 Oct 2035

Roope Paunio left out for tactical reasons at Reading

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings29 Oct 2035

The chances came and went for Nick Oyekunle

13 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Market29 Oct 2035

Isac Tostrup-Kval linked with a move away

The name of Isac Tostrup-Kval keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Reading say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout29 Oct 2035

When it matters, Robert Walton plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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481 Edition

The Reading Chronicle

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Oct 2035

15 days out for Luqman Aideed after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Reading will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market15 Oct 2035

Joseph Spencer hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Reading can pretend not to have heard.

Squad15 Oct 2035

A row about effort at Reading

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Lannunziata was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

David Taylor gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Saviola Simons still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Reading would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market15 Oct 2035

Alex Henderson linked with a move away

The name of Alex Henderson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Reading say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

Andrea Lannunziata gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Andrea Lannunziata is on it.

Market15 Oct 2035

Reading and Jean Denis are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad15 Oct 2035

“I want to play”: Robert Walton speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

456 Edition

The Reading Chronicle

23 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Apr 2035

Roope Paunio keeps Reading in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout23 Apr 2035

Riccardo Conte: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Reading have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout23 Apr 2035

Mathieu Cafaro frozen out at Reading

This is not rotation. Mathieu Cafaro has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Reading is pretending otherwise.

Squad23 Apr 2035

A row about effort at Reading

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luqman Aideed was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings23 Apr 2035

Guillaume Meunier beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match21 Apr 2035

Honours even between Reading and Preston

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout23 Apr 2035

Benjamin Hughes: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout23 Apr 2035

The manager makes an example of David Taylor

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch23 Apr 2035

Marcus Neill keeps scoring at Crewe Alexandra

37 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

455 Edition

The Reading Chronicle

16 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings16 Apr 2035

Both of them Nathan Martin's — 8.47

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout16 Apr 2035

David Taylor: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Reading have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match14 Apr 2035

Reading end the wait against Rotherham United

It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Market16 Apr 2035

Riccardo Conte has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Reading they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad16 Apr 2035

Words at Reading training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luqman Aideed is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match14 Apr 2035

Nathan Martin sends Reading past Rotherham United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Nathan Martin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Reading.

The terraces16 Apr 2035

The crowd has taken to Nathan Martin

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout16 Apr 2035

Benjamin Hughes has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Benjamin Hughes on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout16 Apr 2035

The manager makes an example of Michael Ward

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief