\n Barnsley\u2019s three call-ups ensured the Yorkshire derby will have to go on hold.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Reading away is set to go ahead the following weekend after the home side opted to play on without their internationals.\n<\/p>\n
\n Royals trio Andy Rinomhota (Zimbabwe), Jeriel Dorsett (Montserrat) and Charlie Savage (Wales) are all on duty for their countries.\n<\/p>\n
\n That gave Reading the option to cancel the Bantams game as well as their trip to Wycombe this Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Reading boss Leam Richardson confirmed they wanted to keep playing this weekend. City\u2019s visit to the Select Car Leasing Stadium on October 3 also remains on, unless there is a late change.\n<\/p>\n
\n A club statement also said: \u201cAs things stand, our fixture against Bradford City a week on Saturday will go ahead as scheduled, and we will update supporters should that position change.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Richardson told Reading\u2019s club website: \u201cWe considered the circumstances carefully and, on this occasion, felt it was right to play the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFootball is a squad game and we have confidence in the players available to us, while keeping the fixture in place also helps us avoid adding another game to an already busy schedule.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s better for the supporters too. Saturday afternoon is the ideal time to play football whenever circumstances allow, so we were pleased to keep this one in place.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n City, who lost 2-1 at Reading last season to two sucker-punch late goals, are missing Jon McCracken and Ibou Touray away with Scotland and Gambia respectively.\n<\/p>\n
\n Zac Hadi is also in a training camp with Iraq under-23s but he does not qualify towards the three-man quota to call games off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barnsley\u2019s three call-ups ensured the Yorkshire derby will have to go on hold. But Reading away is set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-291453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}