sentences:  After this success he left Vale Park for Alan Pardew's Reading on a free transfer.He played 17 games in 2001–02, as the "Royals" won promotion as the Second Division's runners-up.He then found himself out of the first team picture at the Madejski Stadium, and spent December onwards of the 2002–03 season on loan at Shrewsbury Town, who were managed by his former boss Kevin Ratcliffe.