That's just a disgusting refereeing display. Bottled the penalty and subsequent handball, then missed a handball down the other end, then totally bottled sending off Koscielny. Awful. Where he got 6 minutes of injury time from I don't know, either. Reading have gone from a confidence boosting win to almost certainly getting knocked out and knackered by an extra half an hour of football. QPR must be rubbing their hands together.
Reading want their arses kicking. I thought 4-0 would have been too much. Well I said that another two if I was a Reading supporter would satisfy me and now momentum is firmly with the goons. Well done District. Bloody well done.
As soon as the first goal went in for Arsenal you knew Reading would f*ck it up. Credit to Arsenal but Reading have been appalling and thoroughly deserve to lose this.
Just got back from the game. Swindon should have taken their chances at the end but instead decided to switch off. Villa struggled for the majority ofthe game.
Actually he sort of got the Koscielny decision right because the reading player fouled him first but two wrongs don't make a right. Shouldn't Giroud have got a second yellow for taking his shirt off in celebration too? Don't know what is up with refs this week...
Spot on. For me the Koscielny red card was the most unprofessional thing I've seen. Worse than anything we saw from Clattenburg on Sunday. He even had the chance to rectify that mistake when Koscielny once again hacked down a Reading player. Playing on for that long was just ridiculous, it was Golden Goal stuff pretty much. QPR will win easily on Saturday, at least Arsenal have more in reserve. I suspect Koscielny won't play anyway so Wenger can make 10-11 changes.
If I was any one to do with Reading I'd be completely confused about tonight. What can they say about themselves and what reasons or excuses can they make? The only thing is why did the ref give 6 minutes of extra time?
Not sure I'd go quite that far, but I know exactly what you mean. I'm sure that he knew he was making the wrong decision, but didn't send him off because it was so late in the game. Having given the foul he simply had to book him. Very cowardly.
