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Andy Rinomhota Returns
12 November 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
Andy Rinomhota has re-joined Reading until the end of the current season after leaving his previous club Cardiff City when his contract expired in the summer.
Rinomhota has only previously played Championship football - for Reading, Cardiff City and Rotherham United and drops down a division hoping to find some of his previous form at his first professional club. After making his breakthrough at Reading in the 2018/2019 season he went on to make 139 appearances, scoring four times, before a move to Cardiff in the summer of 2021. He was initially a regular for the the Bluebirds until struggling to secure a first team starting place the following season, which led to him going out to Rotherham United on loan from February 2024 until the end of the season where he played 16 times.
Having worked his way up through the youth teams at Reading before success for the first team he remains a well known and popular player who will be widely welcomed back. Rinomhota was voted Reading's player of the season in the 2018/2019 season and won the same award for Cardiff in the 2024/25 season before his contract was not renewed after the club were relegated to League One.
Savage Goal Gives Richardson First Win
06 November 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
A rare moment of quality from Charlie Savage after four minutes produced the goal which propelled the Royals from twentieth to twelfth place in the League, denying Stevenage the opportunity to take top spot. Reading, still smarting from their undignified exit from the FA Cup at the hands of non-league Carlisle, started brightly. Nobody was more relieved than new manager Leam Richardson who must have been wondering what he had taken on after seeing his new team crumble on Saturday surrendering a two-goal lead in stoppage time, before going out after conceding early in extra time. This was a very different performance and most notably in terms of energy and commitment against a physical and uncompromising Stevenage side.
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MATCH REPORT: Reading 1 Stevenage 0
Kelly Joins Richardson After Cup Embarrassment
03 November 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
Reading have appointed Rob Kelly as assistant manager to join new first team manager Leam Richardson after Richardson replaced Noel Hunt last week. Kelly comes to Reading from League Two team Barrow where he was also first team assistant. He previously worked under Richardson at Wigan Athletic and Rotherham. The two had success at Wigan, winning promotion out of League One, but struggled at Rotherham before going different directions.
Richardson was sacked from Wigan in November 2022 and had to wait a year before his next position at Rotherham where he managed just two wins in 24 games. He was sacked from Rotherham in April 2024 and left with a points per match record of just 0.42. Richardson now returns to management a year and half later with a huge job to do at Reading. The Royals will be hoping the management team of Richardson and Kelly, along with experienced existing coaches, can replicate the success they previously had in League One with Wigan.
Richardson's first game in charge of his new side was an impressive capitulation at home against non-league side Carlisle United on Saturday as Reading went straight out for the FA Cup in the first round. Reading looked set for a rare win, in front of just 3929 spectators, until conceding twice in stoppage time, and Carlisle then went on to win in extra time after Regan Linney completed his hattrick. Richardson's nightmare start was made worse after picking up a booking well before Carlisle's late comeback.
Ehibhatiomhan Goal Earns Much Needed Win
21 October 2025
By Hob Nob Anyone?
A stooping header from Kelvin Ehibhatiomahan midway through the second half was sufficient to secure a well-deserved first win in five matches and lift the Royals into sixteenth place in the table. It was hardly a must win game, but after a series of three draws and a narrow away defeat to league leaders Cardiff at the weekend, fans were becoming restless at the prospect of another dominant performance without securing the much-needed points to lift their team out of the bottom three. The lively Lane provided the crucial assist whipping in an early pacy cross for Ehibhatiomhan re-direct his header past Fitzsimons. READ MORE...
MATCH REPORT: Reading 1 Northampton Town 0