Paul Ince belongs atop our Championship winners and losers

Mark Warburton is not long for QPR and Paul Ince perhaps isn’t Reading’s long-term answer, but he deserves to be part of that conversation.

Winners

Paul Ince

Ince was brought in to keep Reading in the second tier and barring an insane turnaround, has done that with relative ease. He has made some odd comments and there are obvious doubts as to whether he is the right man for the long term, but he at least deserves the opportunity to be included in that discussion when May comes and Reading are almost certainly still a Championship outfit.

If Reading are no longer likely to finish 21st, it is because they are looking good to overthrow Hull rather than dropping into the bottom three – since losing 4-0 to Nottingham Forest, they have taken eight points from four games and hold an eight-point buffer to Barnsley with six games remaining. Given the downward trajectory the club was on when Ince got the gig part time, those results and that league standing are impressive, even more so considering almost nobody thought it was a good idea.

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