New signing Ryan Bertrand started the game and played the opening 45 mins. In the 62nd minute Kettering won a penalty when Ben Hamer was ruled to have brought down Jean-Paul Marna. The striker shook himself off and scored from the spot.
Then with just a minute to go Marna scored again with a volley that gave Hamer no chance.
Not the score the 100 or so Royals fans expected.
Reading: Federici (Hamer, 45), Rosenior, Cisse, Pearce (Gunnarsson, 75), Bertrand (S Hunt, 45), Harper, Gunnarsson (Tabb, 45), Matejovsky (Karacan, 45), Church, Robson-Kanu (Long, 45), Kebe (Henry, 45/ Robson-Kanu, 63).