Reading draw Brentford - good news or reminder of Royals' fall?

The Royals will host the Bees in the third round of the EFL Cup in September [Getty Images] Reading have been drawn to play Brentford in the Carabao Cup third round and for fans, there are two very different responses to this draw… There's the adult, mature, rational and level headed one… Excellent. We get to see an established Premier League team, from just 10 junctions down the M4, visiting the SCL stadium. We've got some history against them and it should be a really good night out. Let's be grateful the tie's at home, so there won't be too much of a knock on to the following Saturday's league game. This is a great opportunity to pit our wits against some of the very best players, under lights, at the newly refurbished SCL Stadium, and I'm already looking forward to it. Then there's the more emotional, fearful and small minded one…. Boring. Deep down we still consider ourselves a bigger club, even though they've been in the Premier League five years while we've slid down to League One. They'll probably turn us over with their fringe squad players. At least if it was away we could visit a newish ground. Why couldn't we get a massive, far away, Premier League club, for more excitement? There's a real danger the game just reminds us we've slipped down while they've been on the rise. I wish I was in the former group of fans. So much more impressive. That's where Leam Richardson and his team will be. All the latest Reading news