Reading 1994-96
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After finishing second division champions in 1994, Reading manager Mark McGee left the Elm Park Club to rescue Leicester from relegation. Reading enjoying a good start to their first season in England’s second tier finished second in the Championship table only to be denied automatic promotion because of the streamlining of the Premier League, from 22 teams to 20. Mark McGee's Leicester were relegated.
Reading faced Bolton Wanderers in the Play-off final. Reading went 1-0 up after four minutes, Nogan with the goal. Welsh International Ade Williams made it 2-0 within 12 minutes and on 34 minutes a rampant Reading were awarded a penalty which Stuart Lovell took and missed, this was the turning point. Bolton scored a 75th-minute goal to give them hope and with four minutes to go, De Freitas scored a controversial leveler for Wanderers – replays suggesting he’d used his hand to control the ball whilst on the ground. Bolton went 3-2 up in extra time, Paatelainen scored on 105 minutes and De Freitas scored his 2nd of the game and Wanderers' 4th on 118, while Reading player-manager Quinn came on to score a late goal for the Royals.
It would take Reading until 2006 to gain promotion to the Premiership as First Division Champions securing a record 106 points in doing so
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