Paul McShane plays down Reading bust-up with Danny Williams

Ireland international Paul McShane has played down the friendly fire incident which has left him and his Reading team mate Danny Williams facing an FA charge of violent conduct — and a potential three-game ban — after the pair squared up to each other during televised coverage of team’s defeat to Middlebrough on Tuesday.

Reading skipper McShane said yesterday: “It was done and dusted in two seconds. It was a two-second thing that spilt over, then we got back in position and got on with the game. That was the end of it.

“When it’s played in real time it looks like a coming together. It looks like we bounced, but when you slow it down it looks like a totally different incident. But there was no headbutt. It was a coming together. I put my head down, he kept his head up — it’s as simple as that.