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Always find it funny when people talk about unfair results. Scoring goals is actually a big part of football. Some say the biggest. The aim of everything done is to score or not concede goals.
If shef u for example can’t do this- and we can- then who cares if they had a nimble midfield who could cut us open? If they can’t acrually finish anything then switch off and concede a soft goal. Was a fair result.
I can make a case as we have previous for messing up big time and as far as I can see no one has mentioned it. About a decade ago we played Reading in the playoffs at a time we were flying. We duly drew the away leg, but got dicked 3 - 0 in the second leg at home, cheers Shane Long. To make matters worse Swansea then beat Reading in the playoff final and have remained in the Premier League ever since. We owe Reading big time. Not that I hold a grudge!!
I don't totally disagree but there are times when you come away from a match thinking your team has been robbed or have somehow nicked a result.
I thought we were really unlucky to get nothing from Villa away and it's ridiculous we didn't get a point against Wolves at home considering the penalties. But with Sheff Utd we absolutely devastated them in a game weren't in.
Everytime we have a chance of actually achieving something in a one-off game; we tend to blow it! FA Cup Final; League Cup Final; Play off Final, all within the last 10 years or so. So you can understand why people are a little bit anxious.
Personally think we'll be fine and if we aren't going to win, it'll be either because of an exceptional Reading performance; or a mistake by someone (player or referee). I don't see that our players won't be 100% on their game; Warnock will ensure it.
Just saw this posted by a Reading fan:
We also tend to get relegated every 10 years with the year ending in 8.
1988 - relegated from Div2/Champ.
1998 - relegated from Div2/Champ.
2008 - relegated from Premier League.
2018 - ???
I don't particularly want them to be relegated, but it would require a rather convenient defeat on Sunday.
Once we lost Bellamy through injury in that First Leg, we were always in trouble when you consider some of the mentally frail characters in that 2011 team - I can still see Jay Bothroyd pulling out of a challenge with that keeper who scored against us (Federici?) in the second leg. I can also remember Shane Long's joke first goal when Steven Bywater cocked up.
Always used to like Jimmy Kebe from the Reading sides of around the turn of the decade.
Those were the three key moments for me. I was at the away game and we were threatening with Bellamy and controlled it even without him. The home game was just a mess. Before the Shane Long goal we were on top but that was just calamitous though I think McNaughton was not completely blameless then a penalty. In the second half we threatened a comeback as it was not away goals but the Bothroyd chickening out, because that was what it was, signaled the end. I don't see our players pulling out of any challenges on Sunday.
It'll be a proper damp squid if we loose.
But if we win we can put the players on a pedal stool.