Captain Sensible
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So Coppell was torn was he? Well what tore him? The potential of Reading, The catchment area? Or the Premiership ambitions?
Well apparently according to The Times Reading have none of these things.
October 06, 2003
Royals lack cutting edge
By Ron Lewis
Reading 2 Bradford City 2
HAVING BEEN TOLD BY TWO managers now that his club is just not big enough, John Madejski, the Reading chairman and benefactor, will hope to appoint a new manager this week who can stop an alarming slide in form and again continue the process of moving the club forward.
Since Alan Pardew walked out a month ago, Reading have gone from second to twelfth in the Nationwide League first division. A temporary blip maybe, but Madejski is a man who demands progress, even if it is slow. The decisions of Pardew and Mark McGhee before him to walk out on his dream show that plenty of people do not share the belief that Berkshire is waiting for Premiership football.
Having gone to the play-offs last season, there is the chance that things could all go wrong. And maybe Pardew believed the club was basically over-performing. A shiny new stadium is no guarantee of success. What, after all, do Reading have on the likes of Derby County and Huddersfield Town? Not history, that’s for sure and, with an attendance of fewer than 13,000, not fan base either.
Madejski needs only to look at Bradford City’s recent past to realise it can all end in tears. City are now a side happy to cling on to their first division status in the hope that things will turn out all right in the end. While Reading spent most of Saturday’s match attacking, they very rarely looked like scoring and, for most of the second half, they had looked like losers.
So Steve, why were you torn?
Well apparently according to The Times Reading have none of these things.
October 06, 2003
Royals lack cutting edge
By Ron Lewis
Reading 2 Bradford City 2
HAVING BEEN TOLD BY TWO managers now that his club is just not big enough, John Madejski, the Reading chairman and benefactor, will hope to appoint a new manager this week who can stop an alarming slide in form and again continue the process of moving the club forward.
Since Alan Pardew walked out a month ago, Reading have gone from second to twelfth in the Nationwide League first division. A temporary blip maybe, but Madejski is a man who demands progress, even if it is slow. The decisions of Pardew and Mark McGhee before him to walk out on his dream show that plenty of people do not share the belief that Berkshire is waiting for Premiership football.
Having gone to the play-offs last season, there is the chance that things could all go wrong. And maybe Pardew believed the club was basically over-performing. A shiny new stadium is no guarantee of success. What, after all, do Reading have on the likes of Derby County and Huddersfield Town? Not history, that’s for sure and, with an attendance of fewer than 13,000, not fan base either.
Madejski needs only to look at Bradford City’s recent past to realise it can all end in tears. City are now a side happy to cling on to their first division status in the hope that things will turn out all right in the end. While Reading spent most of Saturday’s match attacking, they very rarely looked like scoring and, for most of the second half, they had looked like losers.
So Steve, why were you torn?