In order to generate funds for future transfers Pardew was forced to sell McAnuff and on 12 August 2004 he joined Cardiff City for a fee of £ 250, 000 and was a virtual ever-present in his first year at the club.

Joel Joshua Frederick Melvin " Jobi " McAnuff ( born 9 November 1981 ) is a footballer who plays for and captains Reading F. C ..

McAnuff playing for Reading

Despite getting the ball, Reading captain Jobi McAnuff heavily criticised the challenge after the game.

In 1993 he and Des McAnuff wrote and directed the Broadway adaptation of the Who album Tommy, as well as a less successful stage musical based on his solo album The Iron Man, based upon the book by Ted Hughes.

McAnuff and Townshend later co-produced the animated film The Iron Giant, also based on the Hughes story.

Robert Coe, the playwright who worked with McAnuff on revising the show, restored most of the original song order from the West End version and deleted the new songs written for the Broadway version, but had only four weeks to complete a complex rewrite.

Plummer returned to the stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in August 2008 in a critically acclaimed performance as Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff ; this production was videotaped and shown in high-definition in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009 ( with an encore presentation on February 23, 2009 ) and broadcast on April 4, 2009 on Bravo!

It was announced on April 10, 2007 that Christopher Ashley would succeed McAnuff as Artistic Director.

On the 7 July 2011, Jobi McAnuff signed a new contract that will keep him at the club until 2014, followed on the 13 July by the announcement that he would take on the club captaincy for the 2011 / 12 season.

McAnuff has one cap for Jamaica, he made his debut on 18 May 2002 in the ' Unity Cup ', an exhibition game against Nigeria at Loftus Road.

Des McAnuff, who directed the musical at both La Jolla Playhouse and on Broadway, decided to bring many actors from the original cast with him despite weeks of auditions with thousands of actors trying out for the roles in front of him.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada production ran from June 11 to November 7, 2009, with Des McAnuff directing and Wayne Cilento as choreographer.

** The Who's Tommy – Book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff, music / lyrics by Pete Townshend

This tour, which starred Carolee Carmello, John Herrera, and Stephen Bogardus, was staged by Des McAnuff, who was brought in at the eleventh hour when Trevor Nunn declined to be involved.

It was directed by Des McAnuff, who, with Harold Wheeler, orchestrator of the original Broadway version, revised the musical for contemporary audiences.

The film Cousin Bette was released in 1998, directed by Des McAnuff.

* Tommy ( 5 March 1996 – 8 February 1997 ) by The Who and Des McAnuff

A new version of Dr. Zhivago ran in Sydney, Australia, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2011, starring Anthony Warlow and produced by John Frost with Des McAnuff directing.

Morgan and former teammate Jobi McAnuff formed a management company, Infinite Sports Management, in 2011.

In the January 2004 transfer window, with Wimbledon now in administration, West Ham manager Alan Pardew signed McAnuff for West Ham United joining fellow former Wimbledon players, Nigel Reo-Coker, Adam Nowland and David Connolly.

After a less successful 2006 – 07 campaign, McAnuff moved to Watford in June 2007 in a deal worth an initial £ 1. 75 million.

McAnuff endured a slow start to his Watford career and found himself out of the side for the early part of the season due to the loan arrival of young Middlesbrough winger Adam Johnson.

With Cardiff in financial difficulty, McAnuff left the club at the end of the 2004 – 05 season to join Crystal Palace for a fee of around £ 600, 000.

Des McAnuff was the director, and the choreographer was Sergio Trujillo.

He was replaced with an artistic team consisting of General Director Antoni Cimolino and Artistic Directors Marti Maraden, Des McAnuff, and Don Shipley.

On March 12, 2008 it was announced that Shipley and Maraden would be stepping down, leaving Des McAnuff as sole Artistic Director.

has also engaged a collection of world famous stage directors throughout the years, including JoAnne Akalaitis, Andrei Belgrader, Anne Bogart, Steven Bogart, Lee Breuer, Robert Brustein, Liviu Ciulei, Ron Daniels, Liz Diamond, Joe Dowling, Michael Engler, Alvin Epstein, Dario Fo, Richard Foreman, David Gordon, Adrian Hall, Richard Jones, Michael Kahn, Jerome Kilty, Krystian Lupa, John Madden, David Mamet, Des McAnuff, Jonathan Miller, Tom Moore, David Rabe, François Rochaix, Robert Scanlan, János Szász, Peter Sellars, Andrei Şerban, Sxip Shirey, Susan Sontag, Marcus Stern, Slobodan Unkovski, Les Waters, David Wheeler, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Wilson, Robert Woodruff, Steven Mitchell Wright, Yuri Yeremin, Francesca Zambello, and Scott Zigler.

He scored his 3rd goal in 4 starts against Burnley after looping a Jobi McAnuff cross over keeper Lee Grant to win the game 1-0.

In 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff.

Born in Edmonton, London, McAnuff made his professional debut in the 2001 – 02 season with First Division side Wimbledon.

In his first season at Selhurst Park, McAnuff played 43 games and scored eight goals.

In 2011 Gellar joined " The Nestlé Share the Joy of Reading Program " which aims to promote the importance of reading to the development of young children and to encourage them to continue reading over the summer break.

Albert Thalheimer, David H. Keiser, Marthias Mengel, and Levi Walter Mengel joined Thomas R. Merrit in organizing the Reading Suburban Real Estate Company.

In Muff Lawler's saloon on Coal Street, a young detective named McParlan, hired by President Gowen of the Reading, joined the Molly McGuires, later gave testimony that sent ten Mollies to their death.

She joined Hole two weeks before the Reading Festival and recorded the album Celebrity Skin with the band, ultimately leaving on October 20, 1999, after her 5-year contract with the band had come to an end.

The seeds of Twelfth Night were sown when guitarist Andy Revell and drummer Brian Devoil joined forces on 23 February 1978 to win a talent competition at Reading University.

In July 2008, Winkler joined First News on their annual Reading Tour of schools where he read excerpts from his Hank Zipzer books.

Hahnemann then joined Reading permanently in Summer 2002 on a free transfer, becoming their first choice ' keeper.

On May 6, 2011, the band celebrated the re-release of their classic album Kadish, playing a special show at the Reading 3 club in Tel Aviv, where they were joined for most of the show by Guns N ' Roses guitarist Ron " Bumblefoot " Thal.

After appearing for local semi-professional sides in the Isthmian League, he joined Charlie Hurley's Fourth Division Reading team in 1974.

Allen began his management career as an assistant manager at hometown club Reading, where he joined Alan Pardew when the Royals were in the relegation zone.

The best spell of football in his career since leaving Norwich came with Reading, whom he joined in 2000.

Stoke's biggest summer signing was that of striker Dave Kitson, who joined from recently relegated Reading for £ 5. 5m.

Kitson was followed by the captures of Seyi Olofinjana from Wolverhampton Wanderers for £ 3m, Abdoulaye Faye from Newcastle United for £ 2. 25m, Amdy Faye from Charlton Athletic for an undisclosed fee, Andrew Davies joined for £ 1. 2m from Southampton, defender Ibrahima Sonko signed for an initial £ 2m fee from Reading and former Potter, Danny Higginbotham rejoined his former club from Sunderland for an undisclosed fee.

He joined Reading in 2010 helping them gain promotion at the second attempt after failing in the play-offs.

On 11 January 2010, he joined Reading on loan for the remainder of the season.

After recovering from his broken leg, Upson joined Reading in September 2002 on a three-month loan.

After a year he joined the Reading Cricket Club as the assistant groundsman, a job that allowed him unlimited opportunity to practice cricket, and it is here that he learned the art of leg-spin, but his old boss told him " You will never make a living in cricket ".

Stack joined Reading permanently on 30 December 2005, on a two-and-a-half-year contract.

He joined Cambridge United in 2001 and became one of the brightest prospects in the Third Division which lead to him being signed by Reading in 2003 for a fee of £ 150, 000.

Shortly after the start of the Civil War he " disabled " from sitting in the Long Parliament because he joined the Royalist cause, he raised six regiments of horse and foot soldiers at his own expense, and took part in the battles of Edgehill and Brentford ( both in 1642 ), Newbury ( 1643 ), Selby ( 1644 ) and Naseby ( 1645 ), as well as the sieges of Reading ( 1643 ), Bristol and Newark — being wounded several times.

She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Cheltenham before beginning a degree in modern European literature at the University of Reading.

It was joined in 2001 by Reading Rockets, a multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

Webb joined Reading on leaving school in 1979 and made his first-team debut in February 1980.

Wilson joined the Conservatives, and was elected for Thames Ward of Reading Borough Council in 1992, serving until 1996.

In addition to that, in early 2006, he also joined Reading 107, as a presenter of their weekday drivetime show from 2-6pm.