Marcus Hahnemann has been released by Reading.
Why do we care about an above-average keeper on a club that just missed out on the promotion playoff final? Because he's American (fuck yeah!). Interesting to see where he turns up in terms of whether it represents a move up, down or laterally.
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2009
UF Quick Throw: Hahnemann is No Longer a Teammate of Stephen Hunt
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday Open Thread: Relegation Nation
Adopt the squeaky bum position and join us for a tense afternoon in the EPL and Colaship.
Two games. Four teams. Three in deep doo-doo. One Highlander. Etc.
As you can see above, the lads at George Keeley's have graciously jerry-rigged some bootleg A/V with ESPN360 piped onto a TV. Bigus is currently there, wearing a hole in the floor with his frantic pacing up and down the bar as we await kick-off from Carrow Road.
So yeah, you can watch Norwich/Reading on a computer-destroying ESPN360 should you wish.
Oh, and something about Alan Shearer.
TODAY:
Newcastle v. Portsmouth
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The Bland Alans: Shay Given's Less Talented Replacement, Beye, Coloccini, Bassong, Jose Enrique, Smith, Nicky Butt, Hard-Workin' Duff, Aussie who should retire, Martins, Crocked Midget.
Subs: The Evil Krul!, Barton the Thuggish, Guthrie, Gutierrez, Peter "Peace" Lovenkrands, Edgar, Carroll.
Pompey: Butterfingers James, Glen Johnson, Solololol Campbell, Distin, Hreidarsson, Davis, Belhadj, Hughes, Mullins, The Nuuuug, Man Who Hopes to Have Nachos.
Subs: Begovic, Pennant, Pamarot, Utaka, Cranie, Kanu, Basinas.
With Mike Riley in charge, you can almost smell the botched penalty decision that swings the game dramatically to favour one side. Shearer has done nothing to lift the Magpies whatsoever, so I'm going with a dramatic, agonizing 1-1 draw.
Norwich v. Reading
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Canaries: Marshall, Otsemobor, Shackell, Doherty, Bertrand, Gow, Clingan, Russell, Carney, Lee, McDonald.
Subs: Nelson, Cureton, Lappin, Leijer, Daley
Hooped Spoilers: Hahnemann, Rosenior, Bikey, Duberry, Harding, Cisse, Karacan, Kebe, Little, Kitson, Long.
Subs: Federici, Matejovsky, Doyle, S Hunt, Pearce
No clue here. Narrow, fraught, desperate 1-0 home win via a late goal from a teenager. Or something like that.
Monday, September 22, 2008
A Goal Named Casper Update: With New Video
Bigus is our Coca-Cola Championship expert, so I hope I'm not treading on his toes with this post, but Saturday's match between Reading and Watford was a doozy. The teams fought to a 2-2 draw, but Reading did not deserve the result, as you will see in this video:
Did you see it? Nope. I didn't either nor did anybody else save for one lonely linesman and a gullible ref who believed him.
Stuart Attwell was the youngest and most promising ref in England. I say "was" because the responsibility for this costly error will fall on his shoulders. Attwell had awarded a goal kick until his linesman notified him that ball had cross the goal line. Of course it had not. In fact, it was not even between the sticks on the part of the play where the goal was awarded.
In the ensuing mayhem, Watford manager Aidy Boothroyd was sent off. I'm sure this week's Ed Hochuli will get his own sendoff, probably down to League Two with Mark Halsey or lower.
Never has there been a more appropriate for this song at Vicarage Road:
"Three blind refs,
Three blind refs,
See how they run!
See how they run!
Their whistles are stuck,
And their eyes are closed!
What they call, nobody knows!
Three blind refs,
Three blind refs..."
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