The Nigel Adkins era reached another milestone today as the former Saints boss made his first Reading signing with the capture of Wayne Bridge on free transfer, with the Bridge signing a one-year contract at the Madejski Stadium.

The Premier League season is over. Who impressed in the last game, and who depressed?

So it may not be quite the same as an England call-up but nonetheless, Alex McCarthy has been voted our player of the month for April by Tilehurst End readers.

So that's the last Premier League football we'll see at the Madejski Stadium for a while. We look at who left their mark and who showed us why we're destined for the Championship.

It's safe to say that April 2013 won't go down particularly fondly with Reading fans, who saw the club relegated after just one season back in the Premier League. Despite that there were a few bright moments and here's our shortlist for player of the

So we're down but there's still a bit to fight for, with finishing 19th worth about £500,000 more than 20th, a pretty important bit of cash. Ahead of our trip to Fulham we spoke to Kristian Balkin from Cottagers Confidential.

Now Reading’s relegation is confirmed, who in the current squad should be turfed out to make way for fresh faces that could bring a new dawn to the Madejski? Nigel Adkins may need to go "knock knock knocking on (Nicky) Hammond’s door."

We round up the heros and zeros from our final meaningful Premier League encounter against QPR.

So that's it, Reading are once again a Championship club after just one season back in the Premier League. Today's 0-0 draw also relegated our opponents QPR and both sides will have plenty of work to do if they want to be Premier League clubs again.

One of the more meaningful things to come out of our latest march to relegation this past weekend were the postmatch comments of Adam Le Fondre, who strongly hinted at his frustrations and added fuel to the belief that he may well be off this summer.