Derby boss Paul Jewell hits out at Reading assistant's slur

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Derby's boss was upset at the comments emanating from the Madejski Stadium and has thrown a brickbat of his own back at the Berkshire club.

Slur: paul Jewell hits out at Reading for 'tactless' comments

Dillon, one of Steve Coppell's assistants, said: 'If we can't beat Derby that will be hard to take. They've had massive problems from the start and they have the lowest points total ever in the Premier League. It must be a pretty dour place to play.'

But if Jewell can secure a first win in front of a capacity crowd at Pride Park on Sunday it would relegate Coppell's side.

'Reading is a terrific club and Steve Coppell is an excellent manager, but for Kevin to say something like that I think he must have been caught off guard,' said Jewell.

'He might have been quite right to think it but to say it was quite wrong. Will I pin it up in the dressing room? Why not? I've tried everything else.

'His comments lack tact. You would think Reading had been playing Champions League all these seasons instead of down in the Championship and the Second Division.

'We've been sneered at, we've been laughed at, we've been ridiculed. I can accept it after the season we've had.

'But to be ridiculed and sneered at by certain people is not right. And for Reading to say things like that is not right.

'I know Kevin quite well. But the next time Steve Coppell rings me up for a match video to watch I shall refuse.'