Reading chairman John Madejski says he never considered parting with Steve Coppell despite their poor run.
The Royals suffered a club record run of eight straight defeats to send them tumbling down the table into the relegation drop zone.
Reading have eased their relegation fears by winning three of their last four matches and Madejski says he never lost faith with Coppell and was always confident he was the right man to lead them to safety
upward swing
"Even when we went through that glitch of eight league defeats on the spin, nobody ever questioned Steve's ability as a manager," Madejski said.
"It would have been complete lunacy to even consider changing the manager. Changing managers is not necessarily the answer to anything.
"You've got to stick with him. It's not as if we were losing by a mile the whole time. It was just the odd goal here and there. I was totally happy with the manager and, hopefully, we've been proved right, which is great.
"As I keep repeating, no one has ever questioned Steve Coppell's credentials or, indeed, his tactics. What we are seeing now is the upward swing of something that inevitably happens in football throughout a season."
