The Reading Chronicle
Squad4 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Joel Pereira
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Derby County come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Reading did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Paudie O'Connor: 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Andy Yiadom 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Andy Rinomhota has been here 8 seasons
249 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Paddy Lane
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Reading
Daniel Kyerewaa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market4 Jan 2027
Preston join the queue for Randell Williams
Add another name to the list: Preston have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Randell Williams. The answer from Reading has not changed — yet.
Match2 Jan 2027
Reading and Bolton Wanderers take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Market The clock does Daniel Kyerewaa’s negotiating for him
- The terraces The press have found their man in Joel Pereira