HOME FIRES BURN AT LAST FOR ROYALS

ANDY YIADOM admits it had been hell until Hull rolled over to end Reading’s Madejski misery.

The Royals finally stopped the rot on home soil with victory over City, but not before the Class of 2018 had entered the record books for the wrong reasons.

Four defeats in a row meant Paul Clement’s men had made the worst start to a season on their own ground in the club’s 147-year history.

Goals from Sam Baldock, Jon Dadi Bodvarsson and Yiadom (above) against a woeful Tigers team lifted the gloom.

“It’s been a tough start,” said Yiadom. “When you lose some games the mood is not the best on a Monday in training. As players you can get down.

“We haven’t had the best of times at home but we had lots of energy here, and now we have set the standard.

“This showed we’ve a group of players that can get it right. It’s about keeping this going now.”

Clement began the day under big pressure but 90 minutes later it was his opposite number, Nigel Adkins, who was fearing the worst.

Hull were humbled all to easily once Baldock pounced after just four minutes. Reading should have been out of sight before Yiadom carved out Bodvarsson’s 70th-minute settler.

And man of the match Yiadom rounded off the win on 81 minutes.

Not even John O’shea’s late red card for a last-man foul could ruin Reading’s day.

Adkins, who had a miserable first return to the club he left in 2014, said: “There are no excuses. We were terrible.”