Ryan Nyambe

Right Back - Reading
16 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

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11 Edition

The Reading Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Héctor Fort keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Reading may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

The wait goes on for Reading

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Héctor Fort in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reading this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Reading Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Reading get their man

The chase for Zach Mitchell ended with $1.4M changing hands and Charlton Athletic out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Player ratings

Kadan Young runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Lewis Wing shuts the door

Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Tempers go at Reading

Conor Townsend 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Paudie O'Connor

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Match

Reading find a way past Cardiff City

Cardiff City made Reading work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Paddy Lane

“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.

Market

A long bet from Reading on Harry White

He is 16, and nobody at Reading signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Reading buy the years ahead of Benjamin Richardson

He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief