Explained: Reading’s New Assistant Manager John Coleman

Crime doesn't take the summer off. Fortunately however, the crime of Reading not having made new first-team additions has recently been solved. Therefore, investigative attentions can be now focussed on goings-on elsewhere: a new assistant manager.

I have, once more, dusted off the deerstalker hat and retrofitted it for the summer with a drinks holder attached and a straw that sends hydration directly to my mouth, to aid my investigative prowess. Or detract from it, dependent on the drink inserted into the hat.