Reading v Queens Park Rangers: as it happened 90+2 min Hoilett puts a poor ball into the area. Mariappa clears for a throw. Chris Mendes is a QPR fan and a correct man: 90+1 min Three minutes of relegation killer football now. If one team scores, the other is down. If it stays like this both are goners. 90 min Bothroyd goes close with a low shot from the edge of the box. McCarthy struggles to get it under control, but just about smothers the ball after a moment of pure terror. 89 min The endless run of Reading corners has... Ended. Jamie Mackie's on for QPR for Stephane Mbia. 88 min Reading are still taking corners. This will be their fourth in a row. 87 min Reading have a corner! Imagine! Good save from Green, who tips Morrison's header over for another corner. 85 min Five minutes for both teams to save themselves from the thing that's definitely going to happen from definitely happening today. QPR's supporters gamely running through their repetoire of classic player chants. Let's hear it for Kevin Gallen, Marc Bircham, Paul Furlong and Gareth Ainsworth. No? Just me? 83 min If QPR are to go down it will be in a blaze of ineffective corners. The latest one is headed out for a throw by, I dunno, let's say... McAnuff? 81 min Danny Guthrie delivers his trademark teasing ball from a deep position on the right and finds Le Fondre close to the far post. He heads over. 79 min Bothroyd heads a corner back into the box. He soon gets it back, takes it towards the byline on the left and stands up another decent cross. Cleared by Reading. 78 min Bothroyd in space on the left. He spots Jenas arriving in the box and finds him with a pacey pass but he screws hit shot wide. Game opening up a little. 77 min Granero takes, it's cleared to Jenas in Scholes-volley range. Well struck, but well over. Ian Harte replaces Stephen Kelly for Reading. 76 min The mounting pressure on QPR seems to have abated some now, but they've lost the glimpses of attacking ingenuity they have exhibited at times this afternoon. They do have a corner, though. Time for today's first pertinent statistical tweet from our friends at Opta: 74 min Bosingwa off. Small mercies. Sky's co-commentator generously wonders if he's carrying an injury. No, Davie Proven, he's always that bad. Fabio replaces him. 73 min Granero, off the pace this afternoon, is booked for a cynical tackle on McAnuff as he looked to break through the middle for Reading. 71 min Mariappa, impressive today at the back for Reading, makes a couple of crucial blocks as Rangers try to feed Remy, who was well-positioned inside the box. Here's Jay Bothroyd yawning: 70 min Harry Redknapp's angry about something or other on the touchline. I think he's only just realised that the transfer window is closed and he can't sign any more players for at least another month. 68 min Hoilett replaces Taarabt who's off to a nearby brothel to prove that he can fail to score in two venues this afternoon. 67 min Reading doing all the pressing now. Gunter again the creator, his cross is headed down powerfully but ends up just over. QPR seem to have pulled off their normal heads-down after conceding trick without conceding. Still innovating, this late in the season. Hats off to them. 65 min The corner's a bit too deep and QPR manage to get it back towards the Reading half. Le Fondre on for Garath McCleary for the home side. 64 min Reading beginning to look the more likely team to score. The ball is worked well out to Gunter on the overlap on the right-hand side. He puts an early low cross into the six yard box but Onuoha clears wildly behind for a corner. 63 min Guthrie is allowed to shoot given that Esteban Granero generously moves out of his way in front of him. Over. Jonathan Liew is on the money: 61 min Great chance for Pogrebnyak! More toss from Bosingwa, who doesn't even attempt to track the Russian as he cuts inside in the area. His curling shot beats Green but is just wide of the post. 59 min Time running out here. A sense that neither team would be able to score if both teams played without goalkeepers. Still QPR having the best of it, but Reading looking more composed and seeing more of the ball in their opponent's half. Still being let down by poor passing, though, Robson Kanu misplacing a sideways ball for Kelly which goes out for a throw. Don't worry, QPR fans. Harry Redknapp has a solution, and he's pointing it out right here: 56 min Robson-Kanu is on for Blackman for Reading. 55 min Taarabt with the latest in a long line of laughable finishes after a Mariappa clearance falls to him in space on the edge of the area. Wide, natch. 52 min Rotten finish from Taarabt after he finds Remy in the box and the Frenchman holds off Mariappa before teeing up his inconsistent Moroccan team-mate in space 12 yards out. Taarabt meekly taps the ball into the ground and it bounces towards McCarthy with all the menace of a beachball thrown by a toddler. 51 min Bosingwa briefly rouses himself from his year-long slumber to intercept a pass towards Kelly. He crosses, averagely. Falls for Granero but he's too slow to spot Taarabt and Remy in space nearby. Eventually Bothroyd heads over. 50 min Mbia shoots over, dreadfully. I'm now fairly sure that both of these sides quite want relegation sorted today. It'll take the pressure off. Some supportive words from Sebastian Eaton: 48 min Now it's a QPR corner, from which Loic Remy heads over. I'm quite fond of singing "Shine bright Loic diamond" to the tune of this song in idle moments: Is that so wrong? 47 min Poor second corner, an easy claim for Green at his far post. 46 min Second half go now. QPR kick off and a Reading player touches it after two passes. I will remind you that if the score stays the same both of these teams will be formally relegated in 45 minutes. Reading force an early corner, which immediately leads to another. 14.15 Unorthodox, erratic save from Green towards the end to deny McAnuff who shot well from the left. He's been good, as has QPR's Traore. Other than them it is not difficult to see why these two teams are going down. Passing has been especially woeful. See you in 15 for more of this fun. 45+1 min One minute of added time to endure. Reading on top. 43 min At the other end Traore beats Gunter at the end of a storming run and delivers a low, hard cross. Cleared behind for a corner which Reading deal with adequately. 42 min I really, really hate Jose Bosingwa. Little tug on Karacan as he gets away from him in the box. Karacan goes down. Again, probably not enough their for a penalty. But also absolutely no need to do what Bosingwa did. I have never seen a footballer so clearly indifferent to his team. Penalty not given, incidentally. As you'd probably gathered. 41 min Reading enjoying a good spell. Blackman goes down in the box in the manner of a man that wants a penalty. Not enough in Traore's challenge to justify one, IMHO. Here's Twitter's Charles Lawley: 38 min McAnuff bundled over by Bosingwa, who has fouled him there because it was less tiring than trying to tackle him properly. QPR forget that a foul usually means the other team get a free kick, and fail to react in time as it's taken quickly. Bosingwa is rubbish, again, just glibly walking away with his back to the free kick. Minor scramble in the six yard box but QPR get enough surprised bodies in the way to clear. 36 min Pogrebnyak heads clear with relative ease. Reading break, with Pog feeding the overlapping Blackman on the right. He plays a low ball into the six yard box which would have been promising if Jose Bosingwa wasn't standing RIGHT THERE. He hurries a clearance when he had time to find a team-mate's feet. 35 min Nice move by QPR, Bothroyd setting up Traore with a backheel in a one-two. The full back's shot is deflected wide, QPR have the game's first corner. 33 min Taarabt tries a too-clever finish after a free kick is knocked down for him on the edge of the box. Delicate side-footed effort, curling wide. He should have wellied that. 32 min This match, she is not the prettiest. Taarabt untidily passes towards Remy after some more hogging of the ball in an advanced position. Reading win it back but Karacan's pass towards Pogrebnyak is out for a throw. 30 min Danny Guthrie seems to have re-invented himself as a whipped free kick specialist. His second promising delivery of the game from the right-hand side, Clint Hill applies the correct amount of pressure on Morrison, who heads over. 29 min Another perceptive ball over the top from Mbia who spots Remy running into the inside left channel. He collects, and has Traore up in suypport, but there's more good defending from Morrison to snuff out the chance. Here's an artistic photograph, its title is "Relegation" 27 min It's beginning to get a little, well, boring. Onuoha attempts to remedy this by playing a back pass to Rob Green, who loves nothing more than a big, glaring error. This time he clears, though. Alas. 25 min As some Twitter wag wrote yesterday about Manchester City v West Ham, this has the feel of a post-season friendly. Deathly quiet in the ground, slightly polite feel to the pattern of the match, both teams attempting to defend through organisation and shape rather than the traditional English method of getting their f****** foot in. Hard. 23 min Reading put the free kick straight into the wall. Not ideal. 22 min Granero gives away a free kick right on the edge of the QPR area. Here's Harry Redknapp desperately trying to remember his iPhone password so he can spend the game playing Jewel Quest: 20 min Bothroyd goes close! Mbia finds him with a well-weighted ball over the top, he's in behind and Reading keeper McCarthy has come charing off his line. Bothroyd's lob beats him, but ends up dropping just wide of the post. Slightly unlucky. 19 min It's turning into a slightly desperate battle of ineptitude in the middle of the pitch. Neither team capable of strining two passes together at the moment, but both exerting laudable pressure upon the other. 17 min Still mostly QPR pressure but they're yet to manufacture a clear-cut chance. Granero is bullied back into his own half under excellent pressure from Championship team of the season 2013/14 member Jobi McAnuff. 14 min QPR building in that frustratingly promising way they've perfected in recent months. A disastrous defensive error usually follows soon afterwards. Taarabt drastically misses from long-range again. I cannot hate Adel Taarabt, however much he gets wrong. We'll always have 2010/11 Adel. We'll always have 2010/11. Sounds like both sets of supporters are in reasonably good spirits: 12 min Not bad at all from Granero, who bends it over the wall and puts it curling towards the top corner, out of McCarthy's reach. Just clips the crossbar as it goes over. 11 min Taarabt wins a free kick after nutmegging Karacan then being tripped. QPR within shooting range from this. 9 min Taarabt at his frustrating best/worst/best/worst today. Does well to bring the ball across the edge of the area, holding off a troupe of Reading players, but fails to play a pass in to Remy at the appropriate time and ends up putting a disappointing shot over. Some frighteningly sensible words from Liam McCormack: The club really has to properly appreciate the mess it's in immediately, act decisively and banish all talk of returning quickly to the Premier League. Three steps are needed. Fire Harry and bring in a hungry young manager with good youth development skills 2. Have a major player fire sale. Criteria for retaining players: realistic wages; hunger; positive attitude; skill - in that order. Create an achievable future strategy. Forget completely about the Premier League. The goal is financial stability; staying in Division 1; not melting down; recruiting hungry, young, cheap, raw talent. Then gradually, year after year, create more ambitious goals. Easy 7 min Granero with an optimistic ball over the top of the Reading defence which might fly when you'e playing in the same side as Cristiano Ronaldo, as he was last year, but not when with Jay Bothroyd. Some useful information from today's programme: 4 min Excellent delivery from Guthrie from a free kick deep on the right flank. Green doesn't come for it, Hill doesn't look like dealing with it, but it swings just out of every Reading attacker's reach and out for a goal kick. 3 min Rubbish from Jose Bosingwa (a phrase I expect I'll be using 16 times this afternoon) attempting to drift around McCleary in his own half but puts so little effort into it that it's almost like he's a Champions League winner earning stupid money at a club he doesn't care about. McCleary wins the ball with ease and plays it forward for Pogrebnyak. His shot is over. 2 min Remy, QPR's one good player, nearly turns Morrison with his back to goal after being fed by Taarabt. Well recovered by the Reading defender. Reading break, but Onuona shows Pogrebnyak away from goal and the chance evaporates. 1 min Right, go on then, let's have a football match. Reading kick off. 13.25 Some stirring pre-match words from QPR owner Tony Fernandes: 13.20 Time for a doomed prediction I think. I'm going to stick my depressed neck out and say Reading 3 QPR 0. Yuck. 13.15 We've already established that I've got something of an axe to grind about Reading. They're sponsored by Waitrose and their stadium has a built-in jazz bar. Also, it my prejudice blinding me or this some really objectionable seat pattern work?: 13.10 Shall we have a sad discussion about what can actually be accomplished today? A win for either side will relegate the other and delay the inevitable for the victors. A draw would relegate both. That seems appropriate, doesn't it? If either team can win their final four games and Villa and Wigan only get two points from their final four and five respectively then a staying-up miracle will happen. Pro-tip: This will not happen. 13.05 Today's retro highlights are brought to you by the fine year of 2009: 13.00 Here's Graeme Whittaker with his answer to the question posed above: All the team, including the subs should be given three Shredded Wheat each to eat before the match. That would give them the energy and strength to avoid a meltdown Rumour has it that that was what gave Liverpool the extra welly yesterday and look what it did for Beefy! 12.50 Expensive QPR defender Chris Samba yesterday morning: Expensive QPR defender Chris Samba yesterday afternoon: Expensive QPR defender Chris Samba today: Not in the squad. This is exactly the sort of joyful farce QPR are so excellent at providing. 12.42 Here are some losers that are playing for both of these teams: Reading: McCarthy, Gunter, Kelly, Mariappa, Morrison, Karacan, Guthrie, McCleary, McAnuff, Blackman, Pogrebnyak. Subs: Taylor, Harte, Pearce, Carrico, Robson-Kanu, Hunt, Le Fondre. QPR: Green, Bosingwa, Onuoha, Hill, Traore, Granero, Jenas, Mbia, Taarabt, Remy, Bothroyd Subs: Cesar, Derry, Park, Mackie, Fabio, Ben Haim, Hoilett. 12.40 Here's some apporpriate music to set the tone for the rest of the afternoon: 12.30 Afternoon liveblog fans. I'm aware that it's not really acceptable to be whinging about one's job when one's job involves watching and writing about football matches. I'm also aware that it is "only a game" and that I am extremely unlikely to suffer any actual pain as a result of this football match. But, but but... Dear lord, I do not want to watch this football match. As many liveblog fans already know I am a QPR supporter. This has been just about the worst season we have had since I began properly supporting the team in the glory days of 1990/91, all attractive football, respectable top flight mediocrity and Roy Wegerle's mullet: Those were truly the good times. Since then there have been plenty of dispiriting periods following Rangers. Relegation to the third tier was little fun, tearing through managers under the erratic stewardship of Flavio Briatore was an embarrassment, and until last year we had gone nine years without winning an FA Cup match. But those dark points all had caveats. The club needed relegation, and even at the time they went down a better team spirit was emerging under Ian Holloway. The Briatore approach of firing anyone that lost two games in a row sort of paid off in the end when Neil Warnock was appointed and took as up as champions. And no-one really cares about the FA Cup. This season has been utterly, utterly grim. Other than a freak 1-0 victory at Chelsea it's been a horrendous mess of painfully misguided transfer acquisitions, ruinous spending, and almost total indifference to a disgusting heap of dreadful performances from a squad filled with players that are very easy to hate. The end cannot come soon enough, even though I suspect we'll be in Wolves' position in a year's time. At least we might win more than four games next season. For Reading, a team that has the temerity to wear a slightly nicer version of our kit (this season at list) and laughably also refer to themselves as "The Rs," things have scarcely been much better. They're somehow below QPR in the table, albeit only on goal difference, and haven't won in their last nine games. The general outlook is far sunnier for the fake hoops, though. Theirs is a team far more appropriate for the unrelenting sleeves-rolled-up charm of a Championship season, and I will bet you some of my English money that they finish above QPR in the table next year. I'd be interested to hear from some Reading supporters this afternoon, because while I'm sure they've not enjoyed this season much either, there's surely less of the all-pervasive gloom of shame around their well-run club that has taken the longview and not bought Chris Samba for £12m and paid him £100,000 a week to be rubbish. I'm sorry. I'll calm down. And I promise to tell you what happens in this football match with as much neutrality as I can muster. Please don't panic if 10 or so minutes elapse without an update, I'm probably just having a little cry. Team news and desperation to follow, stay tuned. I suppose we had better have a preview: Reading v Queens Park Rangers Madjeski Stadium Kick-off: 13.30 BST. TV: Highlights BBC ONE Match of the Day. Reading (Possible, 4-4-1-1): McCarthy; Gunter, Mariappa, Morrison, Kelly; Blackman, Karacan, Guthrie, McCleary; McAnuff; Pogrebnyak. Out: Akpan, Federici (both ankle), Kébé (groin), Roberts (hip), Robson-Kanu (match fitness). QPR (Possible, 4-2-3-1): Green; Bosingwa, Samba, Hill, Ben Haim; Mbia, Derry; Jenas, Taarabt, Hoilett; Rémy. Out: Johnson (knee), Townsend (hamstring), Wright-Phillips (ankle), Zamora (suspended). Test: Taarabt (shoulder). Matches: 19, R1 Y73. Team News Reading manager Nigel Adkins will still be without a number of first-team players for their bottom of the table clash against QPR on Sunday. Hal Robson-Kanu has resumed training following a knee injury but Adam Federici, Hope Akpan and Jimmy Kébé are still missing. They join long-term absentee Jason Roberts on the sidelines as Reading look to hang on to their Premier League status for at least another week. Meanwhile, QPR winger Andros Townsend is out with a hamstring injury. Midfielder Adel Taarabt will have a late fitness test on his shoulder injury while striker Bobby Zamora serves the final game of his suspension. Midfielder Shaun Wright-Phillips is out after undergoing ankle surgery and Andrew Johnson is sidelined with a knee problem. Match Notes This looked like one of the season's pivotal fixtures back in February, when Sky selected it for live broadcast, it. Now, to adapt Borges, it bears the unmistakeable ring of two bald men fighting over a comb. The loser will be relegated on the spot, but both will succumb eventually, raising the prospect of the two teams sharing a consolatory hug at full-time and bonding over parachute payments. Betting: Home 8-5, Away 13-8, Draw 12-5. Stat of the game: QPR manager Harry Redknapp has won just four of out 21 league games while Reading's Nigel Adkins has yet to win, in four. Jonathan Liew's prediction: Reading 0 Queens Park Rangers 0.