Oh brother, thou art here

IT MUST have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Stephen Hunt, Premiership veteran and Irish international, had a bet with his younger brother Noel when the latter joined him at Reading in July. The gist of it was that, if one of the brothers scored a goal, the other would have to be his slave for the week — cleaning boots, fixing lunch and generally being at his beck and call.

As the new boy on the block, following his transfer from Dundee United, Noel might have been expected to take some time to settle in. But, just three months on, he leads his older sibling by four to three in the scoring charts — and so, not surprisingly, Stephen would now prefer to revisit the whole concept of their little competition.