Pure cinema, or poor am-dram? Preview Fri 23rd Jan 2026 It’s been a largely tedious seven days to be following QPR around the country, but that could turn into a really positive week if they can add a victory over big spending Wrexham at Loftus Road to the ground out points from the two away games. |
Reading on alarming winter slide - Interview Thu 27th Jan 2022 Dumped out of the FA Cup by Kidderminster, and with five straight defeats coming into this Saturday, Reading have now won only two of their last 16 matches. Our regular there Simeon Pickup surveyed the wreckage for us. |
Transfer embargoes and defensive woes weigh heavy on Royals - Interview Thu 09th Sep 2021 Reading won seven of their first eight games last season but no team has conceded more than them in the EFL at the beginning of 2021/22 and an ongoing transfer embargo has made strengthening the team tough - we spoke to Simeon Pickup from The Tilehurst End for the latest. |
Season Preview 21/22 — Midtable Tue 03rd Aug 2021 LFW’s annual semi-serious look ahead to the Championship season in waiting continues with the seven sides the bookies see as being midtable — in actual fact it’s a collection of clubs accelerating in markedly opposite directions. |
Reading still on course to convert fast start into play-off finish - Interview Fri 19th Mar 2021 Reading flew out of the traps in this season's Championship with seven wins from the first eight, but it's been inconsistent since and a midweek defeat at Birmingham has them clinging to the final play-off spot. We spoke to Simeon Pickup from The Tilehurst End blog. |
Summer upheaval leads to surprise start for Reading - Interview Fri 11th Dec 2020 It looked to be another season of struggle in waiting for Reading when they decided to tear it all up and start again on the eve of the new campaign, but as Simeon Pickup from The Tilehurst End tells us it's been surprisingly plain sailing so far. |
Injuries and strange selections undermine Bowen's bright start - Interview Wed 25th Dec 2019 Mark Bowen hit the ground running as Reading manager, including an impressive performance at QPR in October, but has stuttered since amidst injuries to key players and weird team selections, according to Simeon Pickup from The Tilehurst End. |
Even Puskas and Pele haven’t prevented another Reading struggle — Interview Tue 22nd Oct 2019 Reading were supposedly under a ‘soft’ transfer embargo over the summer, but suddenly splashed £10m on two strikers at the end of the window. It hasn’t been enough to prevent another poor start and change of manager though, as Simeon Pickup explains. |
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