Shame that there's next-to-no chance of that being our XI for the whole season - because if it was, I suspect we'd walk the league (subject to Mara proving that he can score at a decent rate at Championship level).
Russell Martin just walked over to the saints fans. Nice touch There’s about 3 Reading fans here and a whole stand of saints fans. Love to see it
Do you mean the round thing ended up in the net? I’ve heard of such a thing, but I thought it was like a unicorn
In my experience of working on club websites, it'll just be because this is a friendly. The lineups and stats sections of the sites are populated by automated data feeds which are provided by Opta (or similar) - and most of those won't bother populating and providing data for friendly matches. If it doesn't work when the league season starts then you can drag me over the coals.
Reading are charging £5 to watch each friendly this season on their website, so Saints weren't allowed to provide a free stream as they did with the Goztepe and Benfica games. So yes, that's right.
Seated nicely behind our goal. Reading are using 1 stand and that's pretty empty. Wouldn't be surprised if there's more of us than them