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Build The Perfect Reading FC Footballer: Brain

We've reached the final part of our Reading FC Frankenstein monster, so whose brain is powering our beast?

Reading v Burnley - npower Championship Photo by Ben Hoskins/Getty Images

So we've nearly come to the end of our quest to build the perfect Reading footballer. Last time out we asked you to pick whose head topped our body and here's how you voted.

Congratulations to Jimmy Quinn's noggin! Now whose brain would you put into Quinny's lovely head?

Andre Bikey

TTE Podcast Co-Host Dave 'Handbags' Harris

Curveball - gotta have a bit of a rogue element in a player to make them entertaining!!

Richie Bowman

TTE Podcast Co-Host Tony 'Wimb Snr' Wimbush

Picked a pass out minutes before the ball got to him.

Brynjar Gunnarsson

TTE Writer Becka White

Even though he was 34 at the time that turn, nutmeg, run and cross for Shane Long to head home in front of the Kop to knock Liverpool out of the FA cup in 2010 was something truly special. A good footballing head which deserves to be recognised

Ivar Ingimarsson

TTE Assistant Editor Royal Hoops

To be able to play in the Premier League with a relatively limited and basic skillset, you've got to have phenomenal amounts of intelligence. Ingimarsson had that. Where Alex Pearce physically looked like the natural heir to the Icelandic legend, he came up short when it came to his positioning and reading of the game. Second to none.

Dave Kitson

TTE Assistant Editor WilliamOwain

One of those players who you could watch the whole game and rarely get bored because you knew he was doing something interesting. In the last decade there have been few individual performances, let alone players, which could be described as "clever". Memories of Kitson at his best only serve to highlight that.

TTE Assistant Editor Bucks Royal

Being the Secret Footballer must make him pretty clever, surely?

Graeme Murty

TTE Editor Wimb

He captained the most successful team in the club's history and it takes some brain power to keep everything ticking over nicely for that to happen. He managed to reinvent his game constantly to deal with various injuries and he was a big student of the game.

Jason Roberts

TTE Assistant Editor ThatMarcMayo

One of the most wised-up, intelligent footballers we've ever had at the club, knew his game, knew his limitations, and played flawlessly (when his body allowed him).

TTE Assistant Editor Olly Allen

Without his experience and knowledge (and goals of course), Reading would not have been promoted in 11/12. At 34 years old, he’d spent nine seasons in the Premier League, and his advice would have proven invaluable to the squad. Speaks brilliantly when as a pundit for the BBC, and also provided intelligent insight when I interviewed him last year (shameless plug!).

Results so far

Left Foot: Ian Harte

Right Foot: Gylfi Sigurdsson

Legs: Jimmy Kebe

Torso: Ibrahima Sonko

Heart: Phil Parkinson

Lungs: Chris Gunter

Head: Jimmy Quinn