Coppell focused on final game

Reading manager Steve Coppell has refused to say whether he will still be the club's manager next season if the Royals are relegated from the Premier League on Sunday.

Coppell's shot-shy side face rock-bottom Derby County on the final day of the campaign knowing that a victory may not necessarily keep them in English football's top-flight.

When asked whether he would continue as manager, Coppell replied: "I can't say that. I'm not backing out of answering a question, but I just want to concentrate on the football match.

"Let's get Sunday out of the way and we'll go from there. That's not giving myself an out, but my whole concentration is on Sunday.

"This has got nothing to do with my personal situation, it's about Reading Football Club trying to win a football game on Sunday, nothing else.

"The manager is always accountable. I've never hidden from that. At this club I've made great issue of the fact that the chairman leaves me alone and there's no interference.

"He leaves me to look after the football club and if the football isn't working it's my responsibility 100 per cent."