Now whilst there's a lot of angry feeling in the Albion camp at the moment and for obvious reasons, Wilts is a bloody good contributor to this board, so cut the nastiness out eh!
Reading chairman John Madejski apologised for the delay in appointing Coppell, who finally agreed to the move three weeks after Pardew had quit the Berkshire club.
"When I first approached Brighton chairman Dick Knight they had a clutch of games coming up and he didn't want Steve distracted," said Madejski.
"Then when the time came that we could talk to Steve we had to negotiate the contract. We are delighted we have got him. We have finally got our man."