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Looking at the table after six games, and what it usually means for Reading
22.09.26, 11:54 4 Minute Read
The laws of football fandom and punditry clearly dictate that one cannot look at or make sense of any league table until six matches have been played by each team. Those laws seem to apply universally, whether it’s a 38-game season Premier League, 46-game EFL seasons, or the week-long Greenlandic league, but that lack of nuance only serves this article, so you won’t catch me splitting hairs.
The table “means nothing” until six matches in, you see. The aforementioned phrase is widely attributed to Sir Alex Ferguson, despite no obvious record of when he first uttered it. If anything, that only adds to the mystique surrounding one of football’s biggest accepted wisdoms. Of course, if the table means nothing before six matches, it therefore must mean something afterwards.
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Anthony Tomas
Editorhas been supporting Reading since he was first taken to Elm Park in 1997 and has worked as a sports writer for five years. He covers European football for Flashscore and has written for World Soccer Magazine and MUNDIAL, but owes it all to writing Reading Handball Club's match reports in the Reading Chronicle many years ago.