11 HRS AGO - Reading have made contact with Portuguese club Vitoria de Guimaraes, whose head coach Luis Castro has been linked with a move to the club, Sky Sports News understands. Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Caretaker managers Scott Marshall and Nigel Gibbs face a tough challenge this Saturday evening as the Royals face sixth placed Sheffield United at the Madejski Stadium for a 5:30pm kick-off. Reading go into the game without a permanent manager and without a "Sporting Director" director after Gianluca Nani followed Paul Clement out of the door. With Nigel Howe returning as Chief Executive of the club it's been big changes in all areas of the management team as the owners look to shake up a club in decline and facing a relegation battle. Clement lasted nine months at the club while Nani lasted just three as the revolving door keeps on spinning at the Madejski Stadium. Once again our next manager will know they will have very limited time to work miracles before they will find themselves looking for a new position. Rumours continue to fly around on who will be brave enough to take on the role. The early favourites are Steve Bruce, Luis Castro and Slavisa Jokanovic. Steve Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Listen to the EFL Matters podcast, as Simon Grayson and Swindon midfielder Matt Taylor join David Prutton. Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Reading Under 23 manager Scott Marshall will take temporary charge of the first team, working alongside Nigel Gibbs, following the departure of Paul Clement who was sacked this morning. Marshall and Gibbs lead training this morning as the team prepare for Saturday's visit of Sheffield United to the Madejski Stadium. The success of Reading's U23 side is well known, with his team going on a 14 match unbeaten run. Marshall will know plenty of the first team squad well with some of his players starting to get regular first team action under Paul Clement before he was shown the door. Marshall arrived at Reading in September 2017 after spending nine years at Arsenal as a player. After moving to Wycombe, he then took a coaching role at the club before coaching at Brentford and then overseas in Oman. After taking charge of the U21 development squad at Norwich City he became assistant at Aston Villa in 2013. It was while at Aston Villa he managed a single match as caretaker boss Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Paul Clement has been sacked as Reading manager in what comes as a shock announcement from the club this morning. Clement's dismissal comes just a day after former Vice Chairman Nigel Howe was appointed as Chief Executive on a permanent basis. Reading fans were starting to think a corner had been turned with a reasonable set of recent results after a poor start to the season. It was widely expected that Clement would be given more time to turn things around. His sacking follows a run of just a single defeat in the last five games - and that was a narrow 0-1 defeat at Leeds United where we missed a late penalty which would have shared the points. Unfortunately for Clement his time in charge at Reading will go down as one of the worst records of any Reading manager. His thirty games in charge returned 7 wins, 8 draws and 15 defeats. Despite that poor record, Clement was turning into a popular character with his honest assessments of both his and the teams performance. Many Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Christmas is a time for football, and there is a glorious amount of action live on Sky Sports over the festive period. Collapse

5 DAYS AGO - Reading have been drawn away at Premier League side Manchester United in the third round of the FA Cup. It will be the second time in three seasons that the two sides have met at Old Trafford at this stage of the competition. Our last meeting was very one sided as United cruised to a straight forward 4-0 home victory over Reading. Rooney started the scoring after just seven minutes and from that point there was only going to be one result. Martial added the second and two second half goals from Marcus Rashford ended a disappointing day for the Royals. We will be hoping for better things this time round, but our league form suggests we could be in for another difficult trip up North. The game will take place on the weekend of Saturday 5 January 2019.   Recent Meetings With Manchester United DATE COMPETITION OPPOSITION SCORE REPORT 07 January 2017 FA Cup Man Utd (Away) L: 0-4 Read report... Collapse

6 DAYS AGO - Referee David McNamara has withdrawn his appeal against a three-week suspension for using a game of rock, paper, scissors in place of a coin toss. Collapse

01/12/2018 - TOM FARMERY AT THE MADEJSKI STADIUM: So this is why Gary Rowett is under pressure. You look at the table and Stoke aren’t in a bad position but they aren’t showing too many signs of pushing on. Collapse