Reading fans’ treatment of Cech beneath contempt

LAST season, second only to Liverpool fans, the most hate mail I received was from Reading supporters. Of course they were defending the indefensible, that nasty little scrote Stephen Hunt.

This easily allowed them to replace Charlton in my personal dislike list. Another little or nothing club with the footballing equivalent of short-bloke syndrome.

I can just about understand them backing their player by cheering him every time he touched the ball (although cheering someone who cracked someone’s skull, accidentally or not, would sit rather uncomfortably with me), but to actually boo Cech every time he came into play deserves nothing but contempt.

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