GEORGE BUTLER RECALLS WHEN READING RAN RIOT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP...

AFTER previous disappointments, Reading finally escaped from the Championship in the 2005-06 season – and they did it in sensational style! But the Royals would get off to a disappointing start, suffering a home defeat at the hands of a team that had only narrowly survived the year before. Plymouth ran out 2-1 winners at the Madejski Stadium, leaving many Reading fans to believe their quest to gain promotion to England’s top flight would be postponed yet again. The previous season had seen them finis...