style of play. He commiserated with his opposition: "I feel sorry for Reading, but over the season I felt we had more right to go up." Quinn, one of the Reading co-managers, hoped "some of the new supporters we had today enjoyed the football" and urged them to return to watch the club the following season. The play-off final proved to be the final game in charge of Bolton Wanderers for manager Rioch, who left the club on 8 June to become the new manager at Arsenal. Roy McFarland was brought in as his successor, but he lasted just six months with the club eight points from safety at the bottom of the Premiership. Bolton were subsequently relegated in their first season in the division, after finishing the 1995–96 Premiership bottom of the table. Reading ended their following season in eighteenth place in the 1995–96 First Division, three places and four points above the relegation zone, but fifteen points outside the play-offs. References Play-off Final 1995 Play-off Final 1995 1 EFL Championship play-off finals Football League Second Division play-off Final Football League Second Division play-off Final