Whilst everyone takes different viewpoints about AFC Wimbledon/MK Dons, now try to imagine if a similar thing happened to Reading. Imagine there was no Sir JM or the Madejski Stadium. Also imagine completely different owners and a different environment for the past 20 years....

During the 1990s ...

Whilst one can sympathise with the AFC Wimbledon fans for the history, one thing which they cannot deny is that if they (AFC Wimbledon) want to progress up the leagues, they will have to play MK Dons. Hoping for some divine intervention to prevent the meeting from taking place (i.e. AFC WImbledon ...

royal_ross wrote:I'd go but it'll likely be flipping 1st december when we bloody play Man Utd

If its on TV, it will most likely be Sunday lunchtime or one of the evenings.

I think it will be kept isolated from other large fixtures.

Not sure whether the rules would allow AFC to refuse any away tickets but they'd be stupid not to accept the maximum allocation for there will be plenty of non AFC fans wanting to take their place offering support for AFC.

MK are winning 5-1 so it looks like this tie is finally going to happen.

I totally understand the feelings you describe about football in a post-Olympic era.

The atmosphere at the Olympics was wonderful. I was lucky to go to Olympic football, Olympic Closing Ceremony, Hockey, Handball, Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Goalball, Athletics, Wheel chair basket ...

Reading v Watford always gives me pleasure.



Trolling.

How?

Reading v Watford was my first fixture. My pleasure from watching those teams play is purely derived from the fact that it was my first fixture - nothing else.

What was your first fixture? If Reading play that team, don't that make ...

Reading v Watford always gives me pleasure for it was the first match I ever saw at the Madejski. Its where my Royals adventure begun and whilst its away at Watford rather than being at the Madejski this weekend, the meeting between these two teams has a personal significance for me.

The sequence that the balls come out is totally independent of the previous day's results. Thus, it is a reasonable assumption that whoever Stevenage got would also have been who we got, as we would have been that same ball.

Whilst we would have been the same ball, the sequence of events leading ...

Don't blame Reading if Stevenage get juicy fixture

Surely we can blame Reading that Stevenage got ANY fixture in the 4th round............

Yes, because you're referring to ANY fixture. The outcome of winning the FA Cup 3rd round is a guaranteed place in the FA Cup 4th round (unless you go bust ...

So if by this logic I run outside now and take a dump in the middle of the road, I could affect not only the result of our next fixture, but potentially the Euro's ?

Through chaos theory you would affect all the events leading up to the next fixture and in theory could affect the result. However ...

We were inept, rubbish, dire to name a few appropriate words so excuse me in saying that I do blame the football team of Reading FC on missing out on a decent cup run.

Having said that, last 2 years were great.

Yes, you are right to blame Reading for missing out on a decent cup run. What I'm ...

What does the fourth round draw have to do with the team?

Because if Stevenage get a good draw, some people will be crying out "if only we'd have beaten Stevenage then that would have been us getting xxxx"

Very borderline whether it should be in the Team section or Other football.

However, the ...

You're watching the FA cup 4th round draw and the balls are pulled out of the hat. Stevenage get a lucrative 4th round fixture - either an easy bye to the 5th round or a lucrative match away at a Premier League side. This rubs salt into the wound suffered yesterday - you think "well, that should ...

Whenenver I go to Watford, I normally park at Sutton Place Car Park. For anyone who is using the M1, this car park is ideal since you can get to it without using the ring road and when you leave, you only have to travel a short distance along the ring road before veering off to the left and towards ...

impossible to tell surely, its like saying how long is a piece of string?
unless these fans sign a register how are we supposed to get numbers, we don`t even know how mant there are in Reading let alone worldwide

I imagine Reading FC probably look at sources such as number of web site visits ...

Does anyone know how many Reading FC fans there are worldwide?

Maybe STAR have a rough idea?

Only possibility of me going is if i can get on the gate tbh.

You won't be able to buy tickets on the gate as the match will most likely be sold out by then.

I assume you don't have a membership card.

Phone up the ticket office and pay for a ticket over the phone. You should then be able to ...

The economic conditions are making life difficult for all football teams outside the Premier League.

With rising fuel costs and poor wage rises (some cases, falling wages), people are having to watch what they spend and going to a football match can seem very expensive. All the football clubs near ...

On a home match day, I normally park at the Holiday Inn and walk over to the chip shop across the road and the newsagent along Whitley Wood Lane if I want anything else.

I usually notice fans parking in this area and there don't seem to be any parking restrictions.

Is it safe to park there? Anyone ...