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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Reading team news: Lewis Wing returns to start in AFC Wimbledon clash
Reading captain Lewis Wing returns to start this afternoon against AFC Wimbledon, despite concerns over an eye injury. The skipper took himself out of last week's 2-0 defeat to Huddersfield Town in the opening half hour after taking a knock in the face. Not featuring in the midweek Carabao Cup victory over Portsmouth, manager Noel Hunt was concerned that the former Rotherham United and Middlesbrough man may not be fit enough to start today. However, he sits in a midfield trio alongside Charlie Savage- celebrating his 100th Royals appearance- and Canada international Liam Fraser. Joel Pereira returns between the sticks, replacing Jack Stevens from Pompey, while teenager Ashqar Ahmed makes his first League One start of the season after an impressive performance at Fratton Park. New signing Derrick Williams is on the bench, Michael Stickland and Finley Burns retaining their partnership from the season to date, with Matty Jacob at left-back. Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan and Andre Garcia, the goalscorers from Tuesday night, are joined by summer signing Daniel Kyerewaa in a front three. There is no place in the squad for Paddy Lane, while Kamari Doyle, Ben Elliott and Mark O'Mahony give Hunt options off the bench at the SCL Stadium.
Wall Street Journal
6 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
How Russiagate Made Trump
Not being a fan of New York Times reporter Charlie Savage, I won't offer to mediate between him and independent muckraker Matt Taibbi, who has been pounding away over the paper's unwillingness to correct its Russia collusion reporting. Let's come at the problem a different way. Our industry has become stupid, organized around talking points, not inquiry. Symbolic was the rise in the Trump era of the accusation 'whataboutism.' This necessitated the idiotic but useful trope now heard everywhere: 'Two things can be true.' Of course, infinite things can be true but the phrase serves to remind tribalists that a set of facts can be uncomfortable for them as well as their enemies.
BBC News
09-08-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Reading 0-2 Huddersfield Town
Update: Date: 90'+8 Title: Post Content: Match ends, Reading 0, Huddersfield Town 2. Update: Date: 90'+8 Title: Full Time Content: Second Half ends, Reading 0, Huddersfield Town 2. Update: Date: 90'+8 Title: Post Content: Cameron Ashia (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. Update: Date: 90'+8 Title: Post Content: Foul by Kelvin Abrefa (Reading). Update: Date: 90'+7 Title: Post Content: Attempt blocked. Charlie Savage (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Update: Date: 90'+7 Title: Post Content: Corner,Reading. Conceded by Alfie May. Update: Date: 90'+6 Title: Post Content: Attempt missed. Charlie Savage (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ben Elliott. Update: Date: 90'+3 Title: Goal! Content: Goal! Reading 0, Huddersfield Town 2. Cameron Ashia (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation. Update: Date: 90'+2 Title: Post Content: Dion Charles (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Update: Date: 90'+2 Title: Post Content: Foul by Finley Burns (Reading). Update: Date: 90'+2 Title: Post Content: Mickel Miller went off injured after Huddersfield Town had used all subs. Update: Date: 90'+2 Title: Post Content: Delay over. They are ready to continue. Update: Date: 90'+1 Title: Post Content: Fourth official has announced 6 minutes of added time. Update: Date: 90' Title: Post Content: Delay in match because of an injury Mickel Miller (Huddersfield Town). Update: Date: 88' Title: Post Content: Foul by Alfie May (Huddersfield Town). Update: Date: 88' Title: Post Content: Kamari Doyle (Reading) wins a free kick on the left wing. Update: Date: 86' Title: Post Content: Mickel Miller (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Update: Date: 86' Title: Post Content: Foul by Mamadi Camará (Reading). Update: Date: 85' Title: Booking Content: Alfie May (Huddersfield Town) is shown the yellow card. Update: Date: 85' Title: Post Content: Foul by Alfie May (Huddersfield Town).
The Guardian
01-07-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
‘I'm not scared of taking risks': Robbie Savage sets sights on Forest Green revival
Off the roundabout at the summit of Spring Hill, the billboard on Another Way that usually displays Forest Green Rovers' next opponents is shouting about their new manager. 'Welcome Robbie,' it reads in block capitals. A club famous for doing things differently have appointed Robbie Savage on a four-year contract, enthused by his sole, record-breaking season in the dugout at Macclesfield FC – the 50-year-old led the team to the Northern Premier League title after transitioning from the role of director of football – rather than fretting whether he is qualified for the job. 'I know there will be a bit of scepticism because I've only had one year in management,' says Savage. 'I know I will have to win fans over. But I'm not scared of that. I got released from the biggest football club in the world [Manchester United] at 19, told I wasn't good enough. But I've always proved people wrong because I've got a great work ethic. I spoke to Brendan Rodgers, Martin O'Neill and Sean Dyche and they all said: 'What an opportunity.' Everybody wants to help me so that goes to show I must be OK because they're willing to help.' In many ways, Savage's arrival in the Cotswolds began in earnest when his eldest son, Charlie, joined Forest Green on loan under Duncan Ferguson in January 2023. Savage Sr sat alongside the Forest Green owner, Dale Vince, at matches and he remembers Charlie starring in the team that beat Sheffield Wednesday in League One a little more than two years ago and scoring a first career goal a couple of weeks earlier against Bristol Rovers. Forest Green also recently appointed Mark Bowen, Savage's former Wales teammate, as director of football. Savage is the latest high-profile appointment, after Ferguson, who lasted six months, and Troy Deeney, who lasted 29 days. Savage succeeds Steve Cotterill, who reached the milestone of 1,000 games en route to the National League playoffs last season. 'Robbie is not a high-profile manager, he is a high-profile person,' Vince says. 'The media keep saying to me: 'He has only managed at Macclesfield, does that worry you?' It is a valid question but, no, it doesn't.' Savage's departure from Macclesfield was not an ordinary exit given he had a 10.9% stake in the club reborn four years ago after the collapse of Macclesfield Town. He previously spoke of building the club 'from the first brick' with his best friend, Robert Smethurst, the co-owner. Savage concedes confirmation of his being removed as a director on Companies House last weekend hit home and he plans to sell his remaining Macclesfield shares. He believes his experiences of being a part-owner at Macclesfield will help him as a full-time manager. 'I'm not scared of taking risks. As an owner sometimes you can feel isolated if results go against managers; I've seen it and witnessed it. But we're all in this as one. Whatever happens, I'm a football person. If results don't go our way, I understand football. I can take it. I've sacked a manager when we've been top of the league [Danny Whitaker at Macclesfield]. So I get it. No problem. But one thing I couldn't do with this opportunity with good people was not have a go.' Savage plans to immerse himself in the Cotswolds town. 'I want to embrace the culture,' he says. 'I'll be moving here, I'll be looking for a place. I've signed a four-year contract, I want to be here for four years. I want to take this club back to the EFL. It was the first village club to get into the EFL. When you walk into the training ground, you see the ambition and you want to be a part of that. Hopefully we can grow the fanbase as well … At Macclesfield in the league [when we started] we had an average attendance of 1,250 and when I left it was 3,150.' Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Savage met Forest Green staff on Monday and took training for the first time on Tuesday at their new base off junction 13 of the M5, over the road from the site of their planned new all-timber 5,000-capacity stadium, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Vince, who is working to turn discarded fishing nets and lobster pots from waters in Scotland into goal nets at Forest Green facilities, says of the stadium: 'If we're lucky, we're a year away from starting work on it. It's coming, we've got consent. There's a road issue we've got to resolve. The stadium is part of the plan to get ourselves into the Championship.' Savage, Forest Green's sixth permanent manager in two years, jokes he will be in the running to replace Pep Guardiola at Manchester City if he achieves the feat within his contract. Vince believes Savage's positivity will permeate. 'This was not part of why we recruited him but I saw him as a pundit when Man United were playing Lyon [in the Europa League quarter-finals],' Vince says. 'There were only a few minutes left and all the other pundits on the panel were saying: 'They've blown it.' Not Robbie. He was like: 'They just need two goals. They just need to get the ball to [Harry] Maguire.' And they won. Imagine having that on your touchline.' Now it is a reality. 'I'm not here because I know Dale, I'm not here because I know Mark Bowen,' says Savage, whose first game is a friendly against Slimbridge AFC on Friday. 'I'm here because they believe in me and I believe in the project.'
BBC News
01-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Savage wants to 'create dynamism' at Forest Green
New Forest Green Rovers manager Robbie Savage said he wants to "create dynamism" and to "entertain" after being unveiled at the former Wales midfielder left his role in charge of Macclesfield after winning promotion to the National League North in May, to move up a division to the Gloucestershire Green finished third in the National League last season but lost out on a chance of promotion to seventh-placed Southend in the play-offs."We want to create dynamism, we want to entertain, we want fun, we want people to come to Forest Green, to play for Forest Green and for me and to wear that badge with pride," Savage told BBC Radio Gloucestershire. The move to the Bolt New Lawn will reunite the 50-year-old with his former Wales team-mate Mark Bowen, who was appointed director of football earlier this month, while Savage's son Charlie had a spell on loan at the club during said his experience of the people at the club, particularly during his son's time there, persuaded him to take the job."[The] ambition, the project, the training ground, the new stadium but importantly good people," he said, when asked why he took the role."The way the club treated Charlie when he was here, Claire [Thorley, head of football operations] and all the staff embraced me and my family and I thought, you know what, it's an incremental step for me from Macclesfield."It's an opportunity with good people to try to get Forest Green back into the EFL."Savage, who played for Leicester, Birmingham, Blackburn and Derby among others during his career, had been involved with Macclesfield for five years and was also a director at as well as head said "delegation" and "collaboration" with the Forest Green hierarchy was key and that he wanted to implement a similar high-press style as at Macclesfield, where the side scored 109 goals last season."I want to use that experience of Mark [Bowen] and (owner) Dale [Vince] to help me and gone are the days where the manager can do everything," Savage said."I want to play a high line, I want to have a team that can press, I want to make the pitch wider and score goals but you need good players to do that - we created it at Macc and I want to do that here." Helping Forest Green develop more young players is also a high priority next season."They used the loan market well but I want to get the youth team involved in the first-team sessions, in the canteen eating with the first team," Savage said. "I want young players from the academy to go on the bus to away games, to sit in the changing room to see how the older players conduct themselves. "I want to change the perception, I want to create a young, hungry, dynamic squad with pace and power."
