Reading 1-3 Cardiff City: It’s Happened Again

The last seven days or so have been a bit of blur. The 90 minutes of slapstick comedy we saw at Doncaster Rovers, Rob Couhig’s open letter backing Leam Richardson, a whodunnit dressing room leak and a 10-out-of-10-for-effort attempt at crisis comms from the club: it’s certainly been a week. My overarching feeling before the game against Cardiff City was that I just wanted this season over and done with – and that’s been further compounded by today’s events.

Alas, we are not able to be graced with that mercy just yet. Cardiff were rolling into town to try and repeat Lincoln City’s feat from two weekends ago: get promoted at the SCL. Let’s get the housekeeping over and done with.

It seems in the palaver of the last week a few more players picked up knocks, with Kadan Young, Charlie Savage, Dez Williams and Liam Fraser all departing the starting XI. However, there were also positives as Jack Marriott returned to the matchday squad, and Andy Bloody Rinomhota started a game of association football(! ).

Reading (3-4-2-1): Pereira; Burns, O’Connor, Dorsett; Nyambe, Wing, Rinomhota, Roberts; Kyerewaa, Lane; Ehibhatiomhan Subs: Norcott, Stickland, Abrefa, Fraser, Ritchie, Patton, Marriott I can’t lie, but this all feels rather trivial. At the time of writing, I’m finding it tricky to spur up the oomph needed to meaningfully surmise my thoughts on today’s game. The first half was certainly better than what we’ve been used to recently.