Reading: Doyle (14 mins, 47 mins), N.Hunt (16 mins), Cisse (54 mins).
Reading: Hahnemann, Rosenior, Ingimarsson, Bikey, Armstrong, Kebe, Harper (Gunnarsson 82), Cisse, Stephen Hunt, Doyle (Long 73), Noel Hunt (Matejovsky 68). Subs Not Used: Andersen, Karacan.
Bristol City: Basso, Orr, McCombe, Fontaine, Wilson, Sproule (Trundle 59), Johnson (Noble 58), Elliott, McIndoe, Maynard (Akinde 59), John. Subs Not Used: Weale, Webster.
If things had worked out differently in May's play-off final it would have been Bristol City turning out at Old Trafford on Saturday rather than Hull, although Manchester United might have been hard pushed to give Gary Johnson's side a tougher lesson than the one Reading handed out to them... Reading had that [anger] in abundance, snapping into tackles, breaking quickly, passing fluently and finishing adroitly. "We felt we were going to give someone a hiding because we have let ourselves down on occasions. I think we should have had another four points away from home at least," said the manager, Steve Coppell, who needs as many as he can get before the new year if he is to make a case for hanging on to Kevin Doyle and the Hunt brothers, Stephen and Noel, for the run-in.