It could be argued neither Reading or QPR have a great deal to play for, other than pride. That said, pride is incredibly important, especially when it comes to the two blue-hooped sides locate just 30 miles apart.

Reading aren't absolutely safe from relegation and they'll covet three points more than QPR, but with a young team eager to impress Ian Holloway's side won't be pushovers. It should be an engrossing and high tempo affair between two sides with aspirations of improvement next season.

Neither side is covered in domestic glory with just one major trophy between them. The one QPR do have was a thriller though, the 1967 League Cup Final. Very few of you reading this will remember it, it's even before my time, but West Brom led 2-0 at the break before Rodney Marsh inspired a rally from the Hoops, Mark Lazarus scoring with seven minutes to spare to complete a 3-2 win.

Reading have the bigger stadium, but then again they moved from Elm Park some time ago into the purpose-built Madejski. It's a fine stadium too, one of the better new builds and at 24,161 it's significantly better than Loftus Road. It's barely changed since Lazarus and Marsh were plying their trade and at 'just' 18,360 it is the smaller of the two. The pitch is bigger though, a huge ten metres longer and four metres wider. will they cope with the tighter conditions this weekend?

Reading have a higher market value, £40.37m against £30.15m.

The days of QPR having meg-bucks to spend on all and sundry are long gone as they make their way through the Championship with a mixture of youth and established Championship talent. That's not to say reading are much different, they're just worth a few quid more.

League points will be the one number that matters right now and QPR do have more, eleven more to be precise. What that means in real terms is they're guaranteed to be playing Nottingham Forest next year, whilst Reading still have an outside chance of a trip to Accrington Stanley. In truth, both sides should feature on the others fixture list when they're published at the end of June.

Finally, transfer fee paid. QPR broke their fee in to bring Chris Samba from Anzhi Makhachkala, the big Congo defender costing £13.5m. He was on his way not long after, back to Russia for a similar fee. Reading haven't broken eight figures yet, although their record signing has stuck around a bit longer than Samba did. They paid Fulham £7.5m for forward Sone Aluko in the summer.

That leaves QPR in front, three categories to two. Reading will be hoping that this weekend gives them the edge in the ratio of wins against each other, doing so would perhaps ensure they won't find themselves in Accrington next season.