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LAST TIME OUT

COVENTRY CITY 3 READING 2



PRESTON NORTH END 1 BIRMINGHAM CITY 2

LAST SEASON

READING 1 PRESTON NORTH END 0

Abysmal game settled by a goal late in injury time

FORM GUIDE MAX 25

READING 16 PNE 10

Ejaria 3.5 million
Semedo and Esteves both loan
Laurent free from Shrewsbury

First ever meeting we scraped home 18-0 athough that was at Deepdale, however in Berkshire lost teh first league meeting in April 1927 3-0, our first win was in 1930 4-1.
Last win for us April 2016 2-1.
Been the last couple of time got zip expect less than that tomorrow.

MACS VIEW

The thought of this one is enough to make you want a Biden win, off to the league leaders tomorrow night a game which we will not be expected to get anything even though we have an away record to die for compared to the home record which is abysmal.
New manager Veljko Paunovic has hit the ground running big time with his side sweeping all before them although losing against Coventry on Friday.
They have conceded one at home this season surprisingly losing to Luton however since then been full steam ahead.
Swift far better than Championship level and Ejaria is a non too shabby player and up front they have Lucas Joao and Meite probably one of the fastest players in the league does not bode well for us luckily not on Red button. A point is a good result here.

Preston North End will be looking to extend their unbeaten start to the season on the road when they head to league leaders Reading on Wednesday night.

The Royals have had an impressive start to the season, winning seven of their first nine games and only losing for the first time at Coventry City on Friday night.

The appointment of Veljko Paunovic as manager in the summer has so far proved to be a masterstroke and he has found a formula that has worked for a talented and expensively assembled squad at the Madejski Stadium.

For the Lilywhites, they have won their last three away games and will look for another three points at a venue that hasn’t always been their happiest hunting ground, but will look to continue their run away from Deepdale

Team News
Manager Alex Neil will again wait until last minute before checking on the availability of the two Ben’s, Pearson and Davies, who have missed the last four games.

Andrew Hughes, Declan Rudd and Darnell Fisher will all also need to be assessed, having all had difficulties in the weekend’s clash with Birmingham City.

Reading boss Veljko Paunovic looks like he could be without Liam Moore, stating after their loss to Coventry, that the defender would see a specialist in the coming days to assess the seriousness of his injury.

Match Officials
For Wednesday evening’s away game, we have a referee for the second time this season.

The match official for the trip to the Madejski Stadium is John Brooks, now in his third season on the Select Group Two list of referees.

The Leicestershire ref was in charge of North End’s 3-2 home win over Millwall in December 2018 and the 3-1 home victory over Stoke City in front of the Sky Sports cameras back in August 2019, as well as the New Year’s Day clash with Middlesbrough in PR1 and the first game after lockdown, at Luton Town back in June.

Last season, in the month before the pausing of the Championship, he also refereed the Lilywhites’ victory over Stoke City at the Bet365 Stadium, when Tom Barkhuizen and Alan Browne were the scorers.

So far this season he has officiated nine games issuing 24 yellow cards and no reds; he will be assisted by Nick Greenhalgh and Akil Howson – who also ran the line at Norwich when he refereed the game - whilst the fourth official will be Mark Russell.

FAMOUS READING FOLKS

Alma Angela Cohen Cogan[1] (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
She was born on 19 May 1932[1] in Whitechapel, London, of Russian-Romanian Jewish descent.[1] Her father's family, the Kogins, arrived in Britain from Russia, while her mother's family were refugees from Romania.[2] Cogan's parents, Mark and Fay Cogan, had another daughter, the actress Sandra Caron,[3] who went on to play "Mumsey" in The Crystal Maze,[4] and one son, Ivor Cogan. Mark's work as a haberdasher entailed frequent moves. One of Cogan's early homes was over his shop in Worthing, Sussex.

Although Jewish, she attended St Joseph's Convent School in Reading.[5] Her father was a singer, but it was Cogan's mother who had showbusiness aspirations for both her daughters (she had named Cogan after silent screen star Alma Taylor). Cogan first performed in public at a charity show at the Palace Theatre in Reading, and at the age of eleven, competed in the "Sussex Queen of Song" contest held at a Brighton hotel, winning a prize of £5.

Aged 14, she was recommended by Vera Lynn for a variety show at the Grand Theatre in Brighton. At 16 she was told by bandleader Ted Heath "You've got a good voice, but you're far too young for this business. Come back in five years' time." Heath would later say: "'Letting her go was one of the biggest mistakes of my life."[6] But Cogan found work singing at tea dances, while also studying dress design at Worthing Art College, and was soon appearing in the musical High Button Shoes and a revue, Sauce Tartare.[7] She became resident singer at the Cumberland Hotel in 1949, where she was spotted by EMI producer Walter Ridley, who became her coach and signed her to HMV.

Cogan's first release was "To Be Worthy of You" / "Would You", recorded on her 20th birthday.[citation needed] This led to her appearing regularly on comedian Dick Bentley's BBC's radio show Gently Bentley, and then becoming the vocalist for the BBC Radio comedy programme Take It From Here, replacing Joy Nichols, from 1953 to the end of its run in 1960.

In 1953, whilst in the middle of recording "If I Had a Golden Umbrella", she broke into a giggle; she then played up the effect on later recordings. Soon enough, she was dubbed the "Girl with the giggle in her voice" ("Giggle" has sometimes been quoted as "chuckle".)[8]

Many of her recordings were covers of U.S. hits, especially those recorded by Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Brewer, Georgia Gibbs, Joni James and Dinah Shore. Her voice was often compared with Doris Day's. One of these covers, "Bell Bottom Blues", became her first hit, reaching no. 4 on 3 April 1954.[9] Cogan would appear in the UK Singles Chart eighteen times in the 1950s, with "Dreamboat" reaching no. 1. Other hits from this period include "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango", "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "Sugartime" and "The Story of My Life". Cogan's first album, I Love to Sing, was released in 1958.

Cogan was one of the first UK recording artists to appear frequently on television, where her powerful voice could be showcased along with her bubbly personality and dramatic costumes. Her hooped skirts with sequins and figure-hugging tops were reputedly designed by herself and never worn twice. Cliff Richard recalls: "My first impression of her was definitely frocks – I kept thinking, how many can this woman have? Almost every song had a different costume. The skirts seemed to be so wide – I don't know where they hung them up!"[10][11] Cogan topped the annual NME reader's poll as "Outstanding British Female Singer" four times between 1956 and 1960.[12]

Alma cannot attend tomorrow no fans allowed and probably the fact she dead would make it equally difficult


And dating myself I remember her

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Zero Zero half time

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Penalty miss DJ

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Sinclair 1 up

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2 up Riis

Potts 3 up

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Any chance we can play the remaining 36 games away from home
0 from 15 at home
13 from 15 away

Just utterly crazy

Well that's Reading's bubble burst.

Reading suffered a second consecutive defeat as Preston North End inflicted a first home league loss of the campaign on the Championship's early-season leaders.

The Royals remain three points clear at the top of the second tier, but lacked the clinical quality in the final third against North End that had seen them win seven of their first eight games.

Scott Sinclair poked home the opening goal after half-time and Emil Riis Jakobsen raced on to a long ball to double the lead.

Brad Potts added a late third for Preston after a quick counter-attack and an unselfish square ball from Tom Barkhuizen.

Relive Wednesday's action as it happened
Preston's impressive win followed two consecutive home losses, but extended their superb away form.

North End have now won four straight games on their travels, in stark contrast to their dismal record at Deepdale, where they have lost every match so far this term.

The Lancashire club produced another textbook away performance, looking well-organised in defence and breaking with great impetus on the counter.

The Royals struggled to cause major problems for the visitors' keeper Declan Rudd, as Veljko Paunovic's side fired a blank after scoring nine times in their previous three matches.

Reading head coach Veljko Paunovic:

"I'm not disappointed but I feel the pain. When you lose a game, you have to absorb it. That's what I told the players.

"You have to quickly bounce back and convert the pain into a positive energy for the next game.

"The next game is all we have. If we lose or we win, we say - next day, next game.

"We have to acknowledge that we weren't at our best today.

Preston boss Alex Neil:

"This seems to be quite common for us on the road. We've been excellent on the road.

"First of all, I'm delighted with the win. But I'm still a bit perplexed at how poor we've been at home in comparison to being away.

"But we'll enjoy tonight. We needed a good response from the players after the last two games, which have been tough for us at home.

"The one thing that we have never lacked is spirit, endeavour and effort. And tonight I thought that we added a bit of quality to that."